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I want to take a minute to give you a visual of this. There is a tournament on Grand Lake , Oklahoma every year called the Hootie Open. I personally donate over $ 2500 in cash and prizes just for the ladies only that fish this event with there husband, dad, son or uncle just so the women can feel wanted and special in a sport that seems to have more males than females in it so I try to sweeten the pot just to get the ladies involved. This is still a normal tournament that any team can enter no matter your gender this deal I do is a tournament inside the tournament for the ladies so I add a little just for the ladies alone like the biggest bass caught by a lady and it does not have to be the biggest bass of the tournament for them to cut a check. I have cash drawings and I also give out a prize to each and every lady that enters so she will take something home as a gift along with the memory that should give you an idea of how much involved I am with this tournament well here is the story.
The suspense is killing me. Jason Desertdweller.com Get Your Bass in the Boat!
I fished a tournament on Hudson Lake on Saturday and drove up to Grand to stay with some close friends ( EX friends now ) that night. I took my wife to eat and go check on the last minute details of the touranment on Sunday and see how many ladies were entered and then say good nightI asked my buddie that started this whole tournament what he wanted me to do in the morning because being a major part of this and on the staff I needed a job and he said I could put in at 4:15 A.M and catch the boats arriving by water to tell them where to go to get livewell checked and entered if they had not done so and I took on the job with great joyWe got back to my best friends house ( ex best friends ) and my wife guided me back to the trailer to hook up. I was lined up perfect I got out and looked yep it will sit right on the ball no problem in the morning just lower the jack and we are off. My wife said are we going to hook it up tonight I said nope in the morning in case we need the truck for something. She said you really should hook it up tonight in case we need to move it for Jeff to leave I said no it is okay.We tarped the boat and motor and went in for a great visit with the ex friends and at 1:00 A.M went to bed. Well 3:00 A.m is early in my book but I got up and took a shower and put on make up ( ,she wore the make up ) I am impatient at these deals anyways so I was rushing my wife with come on we got to get fuel and ice and on the water by 4:10 to make it to the cove.Well we loaded all our gear so we could come straight home from the tournament and not have to drive all the way around to there house again we would head straight home after the tournament. I unplugged the extesion cord because I have drove off like that before and a 50 chird going 70mph down the road looks odd in the mirror in the morning and the plug at home is ripped clean from the wall and then laying in the shop floorI swung real wide to leave his drive way do not want to hit my ex very best friends mail box then swung extra wide to miss the pot hole t the end of his street when I turn do not want the trailer to frop off in it. I swung real wide to get on the highway because we do not want to fish the trailer out of the 12 deep ditch on the right and drove 7 1/4 miles to town to get fuel I was swinging real wide to go into the gas drive way because it is narrow when my cell phone rang.I answered and my ex best friend said hey you forget something at the house when you left. I did a real quick check wife, beside me , pillows (check) blankets (check) over night bag (check) shaving kit and contacts (check, check) nope got it all. He said check again I said look what ever I left bring to the tournament with you because you guys are fishing the tournament too. He said I can not do that I said look then keep it because if I left it and do not know what it is I do not need it I am busy I am getting out to get fuel.He said I would bring it but it will not fit in the Durango I said what the he$$ could I have possibly left that he would not put in the Durango. I said jeff give me clue here he said you need to come get your boat out from in front of my truck so I can go fish.I looked in the mirror and said Sh$t real loud and my wife who can not here our conversation but seen me look in the mirror looks over her shoulder out the window and slowly looks at me like I just asked her to have a sex change or something and says no you did not forget the boat.He said it would stay just between us. Well I got to the ramp a 1:15 late and the guys all were waiting on me. They asked what happen you over sleep well a man has to stand up and be honestat this point and the light went on up stairs in my head and I said um……Yes we over slept.My wife looks at me with that are you out of your mind look and I said honey we need to get out there they are waiting on us no need to sit here explaing the very workings of the alarm clock so we launched the boat and headed out the whole time her shasking her head at what a master piece she has married. Well.three things happened that day at weigh in my ex best friend told the announcer before the start of the weigh in and I did not know this and he called me up on the stage in front of a few hundred people for what I thought was to give the ladies prizes out. He introduced me as the only guy he has ever met that can forget the brightest yellow boat in the world I knew then that this was bad for me.Well the second bad part was the fact in 6 years my wife has tried so hard to catch me in a mistake and this one I handed to her on a platter. The third is hopw can I remain to be friends with a guy that should ahve called me much sooner instead of waiting for me to reach town.I hope your weekend went better than mine my wife has me enrolled in the I shoulda listened to her school at this time and I have to go study now for the test on Friday. Now whwere did I leave my no#2 pencil ummmmmmm…..The sad part is this is a 100% true story and I do not need friends because if we were not friends I would not have been there..
Sorry for the length ofthe story and sorry I do not know how to space it out to make it easier to read but my wife could show me but I am trying t oavoid her right now.
Well there are those of us who are in the “gonna” (do it) and there are those of us in the “have” (done it). You are in the “have done it catagory” now. It is a great story and your are honest about ….. now! Keep smilin only your pride was hurt!GeorgeGeorge
lol, thats great! Instead of hiding from the wife, you need to ask her “Hey! where were you on the boat thing? You are supposed to have my back!” See where that gets you. To make it more readable, just hit enter a couple times after a few sentences to start a new paragraph. It will put a few blank spaces inbetween paragraphs.Jason Desertdweller.com Get Your Bass in the Boat!
Wow thankk you very much for telling me to enter to get the spacing I now have learned another thing this week. I did try to tell her she was in charge of that part but seeing how she asked me twice to hook it up I did not push it. I can not believe I did not get pulled over for drunk driving with me using two lanes to turn and such and I do not drink. maybe I should start drinking again so I would have an excuse.The funny part was on the way out to the mouth of the cove she did inform me that next time I decide to take a test drive to see how long it takes to get to the gas station she will be at the house with the boat finishing her make up…..
Having fished literally hundreds of days across the country, got up late, early, not slept. Slept in the truck, and more. There are so many stories like this that could be added. If we are honest, we have all done more of this than we care to comment. I have drug a couple of cords myself. And if you use a garage many have bent a stern light post. The one that gets you is when you get to the ramp and figure out you didnt latch your coupler to your ball and it rode all the way to the lake without coming off! Havent done that one myself, though twice I have walked over to someones rig at the morning ramp and latched their coupler for them. That one wakes them up! Rick, BCB
That is H-I-larious!!!!! Your lucky you didnt have to buy your boat back from your ex best friend after you gave it to him Thanks for sharing that is good…Judd Lasiter
Please keep in mind I am the same proud owner of the bright yellow Puma with the flames all over the cowling I posted just a few weeks back.Then think of the story and ask yourself how do you miss that not being back there. I did all day today….
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