How Many Of You Have Left Bait In The Bait Tank

[Stoughty Rods]

I remember when I had a foul stench in my boat for a few weeks. Never did find where it was coming from. So I took my boat to Surg to have a thru-hull transducer installed. I came back to get my boat and Surg was showing me everything. Then he said "Oh ya, we found a few of these down in the bilge pump area!" and he showed me some rotten sardines. I forgot to say thanks for that Surg......because the smell finally started to go away after that install!

[deb0650]

Twelve years ago I started leaving a couple macs in the back of my boat for the drive home from Mulege. My thinking was the border patrol would not want me in secondary because of the stink. I always had aluminum boats so I wasn't too worried about doing any damage to the boat since the bugs would eventually eat it all and they would fly away. Did this for several years until they started sending me to secondary every time after 9/11. It was stanky. I always got a kick out of the people around me in line at the border. They would stare at my filthy truck, rusty trailer, and dirty stinky boat. Mad Max.

[MJHeinz]

Nah, that would be just plain stupid....what i did was more stupid. My first boat (20' wellcraft cc), had a fish hold that drained to the bilge. After a long day fishing, we cleaned the boat and bait tank and put it in storage. Two days later I get a call from the storage yard to get my ass down there immediately as my boat was stinking up the whole facility. When I got out of my truck in front of the boat, I thought I just hit a skunk. When I pulled the cover off the boat, it hit me and I must have puked 3x's before I could climb into the boat.

We left a large bag of fresh frozen squid in the fish hold that was now covered with about a 6" layer of maggots. Off to the quarter car wash. I must have gone through $20.00 before we got all the maggots through the bilge. Then I must have used 20 gallons of bleach to clean the bilge. Then when we got it back to the yard, we poured about 12 gallons of simple green in the bilge and filled it wit about 100 gallons of water. Then pulled the plug and towed it around with the bilge pump blowing.

I know you guys are all laughing but it wasn't funny. My buddy was laughing the entire time.

Matt

[crazy hawaiian]

Originally Posted by MJHeinz

Nah, that would be just plain stupid....what i did was more stupid. My first boat (20' wellcraft cc), had a fish hold that drained to the bilge. After a long day fishing, we cleaned the boat and bait tank and put it in storage. Two days later I get a call from the storage yard to get my ass down there immediately as my boat was stinking up the whole facility. When I got out of my truck in front of the boat, I thought I just hit a skunk. When I pulled the cover off the boat, it hit me and I must have puked 3x's before I could climb into the boat.

We left a large bag of fresh frozen squid in the fish hold that was now covered with about a 6" layer of maggots. Off to the quarter car wash. I must have gone through $20.00 before we got all the maggots through the bilge. Then I must have used 20 gallons of bleach to clean the bilge. Then when we got it back to the yard, we poured about 12 gallons of simple green in the bilge and filled it wit about 100 gallons of water. Then pulled the plug and towed it around with the bilge pump blowing.

I know you guys are all laughing but it wasn't funny. My buddy was laughing the entire time.

Matt

Don't think a award for the worst incident is planned, but if there is you win the contest hands down!

[scappellino]

Here's my idiot award for stinking up things. Last November we discovered that we had a colony of roof rats living in our ceiling so I decide to handle this myself instead of calling a professional like my wife wants to do. I go to Home Depot for some advice and am directed to the little poison blocks that they eat and then "get thristy, leave the nest to look for water, drink said water and immediately die from the poison". So, that is the plan. I find the hole in the roof where they are getting into the attic, dump two bags of the posion blocks in front of the hole and then wait. Next day all of the blocks are gone (like 24 total) and I am thinking wow that was easy. Week goes by and I do not hear and running around up there so I figure they must have left to find the water and are now dead somewhere else. It is now almost Thanksgiving so we leave for Seattle for two weeks to go to the in-laws house as is tradition for us. About a week into the trip our neighbor calls us to say that we have a gas leak in the house when she went in to drop some mail off for us. I immeditately say "uh oh". She shuts the line off and the smell does not go away. What's worse is that gas smell is coming not from the kitchen but from the part of the house under the attic where the rats lived. To make a long story short, let's just say that if you ever plan to use the little rat biscuits to get rid of your roof rats, make sure you turn off the little decorative water fountain located near the hole that they are using to get into the house. It sort of kills the plan of them leaving to find water and die somewhere else. That little experience cost me over $1500 in clean up costs to remove the rats and then I spent 3 weeks replacing drywall and repainting the whole downstairs to get rid of the smell.

Steve

[jimdog99]

I was working on a sportboat some years back and I had taken some time off. The boat had a run with a new Captain and Deckie. The deckhand had never worked the boat and didn't know the in's-and-outs of the boat. I came down for a Maintainance day. As I approached the boat I could smell a distinct smell which became worse as I came closer and closer. I open the Wheel house get some suppplies and rags for I was going to clean the Cap Rail. I walk by the tanks (Which had a wooden lid on them) and I really smell the funk now. I lift the lid and wham...Instapuke. There had to be at least 5 scoops in each side of chov. The dumbass neglected to pull the tubes and chutes. "Fuck!!!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, I continued to rant and cuss for at least 20 minutes. I go into the office and cuss out the Office Manager (aka Ticket Bitch) for hiring a piece of shit dumbfuck cocksucker motherfucker. He threatens to fire me for "Talking to him like that." I tell him to get fucked.

I walked back down to the boat, turned on the bait pumps and spent the next four hours flushing goo from the tanks. I was pissed to say the least. The smell lasted for a couple days. Foul fucking odor. I can smell it now. I fucking hate rotting bait and the nasty fucking smell. I am emotionally scarred by this incident to this day... I need to see a shrink.

[miles]

One of my mates had just bought his first PROPER boat. A fancy sportfisher with all the bells and whistles. On his maiden voyage, he took his kids and friends out for some bottom fishing. Inbetween the small bottom fish, a rather large octopus was landed. This was destined to be used as bait and was thrown into the fish box, which is situated above deck.

Unbeknown to them, the octopus managed to escape via a unplugged bung hole and slithered into the cabin, managing to get into one of the wiring ducts inside the cabin.

After the days fishing, no-one could find the octopus and they thought somebody must've thrown it back.

Needless to say, a week later, nobody would come NEAR his boat!! Took MANY months for the smell to eventually go away!!

[sdjfish]

Tide will get it out!

Bleach or soap in a bait tank for any reason is just wrong, should have just lived with the smell for a while. Sun light over time will kill the smell once the offending items have been removed.

[mercerm]

Not sure how bad this smelled but I got a good idea. Shitty landlord years ago. I had to get out in two weeks. Could have fought it but decided to fight back. I took the ac vent cover off and slid a couple of open cans of tuna way back into the duct. Wonder how his new tenants (his kids) liked that?

[inSTANt bendo]

Originally Posted by miles

Unbeknown to them, the octopus managed to escape via a unplugged bung hole and slithered into the cabin, managing to get into one of the wiring ducts inside the cabin.

After the days fishing, no-one could find the octopus and they thought somebody must've thrown it back.

Needless to say, a week later, nobody would come NEAR his boat!! Took MANY months for the smell to eventually go away!!

The lesson here children is to never, under any circumstances, let an octopus squeeze through your bung hole!

[Mono Malo]

Originally Posted by inSTANt bendo

The lesson here children is to never, under any circumstances, let an octopus squeeze through your bung hole!

[c-goat]

Pelicans are cool!