First tournament in my new boat!!! And maybe the last.....

[skeeter944]

Hey yall well I got the chance to fish my first tournament today from my own boat haha! Well right off the bat I catch a 4lber a 3lber and a 2lber. Well the wind was blowin really hard so we decided to head back towards weigh in a little early just incase. Well on our way back we run out of gas and manage to get to a dock and tie off there, just then a member of my bass club pulls up and offers to tow me to the weigh in (we were only a few hundred yards away) so off we were goin. The wind had picked up considerably and was now 25-30mph with nearly 5ft whitecaps! lol in my little 16.5ft boat it wasnt too fun. Then the waves started crashing over the boat!!! So i turned the bilge on but it decided to malfunction as we kept taking more and more water. The boat then started to go under as i threw everything in compartments and started to try to bail out the water. Well the boat sank down and decided to roll, so we had no choice but to jump off. All electronic devices were ruined, even though i saved them, and the amazing thing is that when we got the boat to shore to flip it, my fish were still in my livewell!!! Except for the 2lber (which ended up costing me the tournament) I finished 3rd out of 26 with 6lbs 4 ounces first place was 8lbs 9 ounces so that 2lb fish would hav made things pretty close. Im just so thankful for the amazing guys in my club that saved me and my dads lives, if not for them our boat would probably be at the bottom of the lake, and I would have lost all my equipment. I also got big fish coming in at 3lbs 4ounces. So thats how my day went, now the longggg wait as I dry everything out then we have to work on the motor. Well Im off to dinner, see yall later