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Exploding Life Jacket
This past year I was fishing in a charity bass tournament with a good friend of mine. Part of the rules for this tournament were if any angler was using the suspender type of life jacket, they had to be worn at all times. My friend uses this type, so he had to wear his throughout the tournament. Late in the day we pulled into a large marina to skip the docks. I threw up under a dock and got a bite. When I set the hook on the fish, the fish became tangled in a chain that was under the dock. So we moved our boat in towards the dock to try to get this fish. While I held my line tight, my friend started to lean over the front of the boat to reach under the dock. I was standing right behind him holding our boat close to the dock, as well trying to hold my rod. All of the sudden we heard this hissing, then suddenly there was a POP! My friend had caught his jacket on the side of the boat and caused it to inflate. Now if you have never seen this happen, these inflate like an inner tube. My friend has pretty short arms anyhow, and when his jacket inflated, the jacket pinned his arms in the upright postion. So now he was hanging over the boat, and couldn't move his arms. We both broke out in laughter. We couldn't believe how fast his jacket inflated, and then rendered him immobile. We certaily received plenty of attention from the people in the marina. Well, I had to put my rod down and pull my friend up out of the water. We lost the fish, but have a great story to share.
Chris
Cottage Grove, MN
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