The Last Place You Want To Find Your Outboard Is...

In the seat with you, yet that's exactly what happened to Texas anglers Ty and Jason Moorhead this past weekend.

They hit a Sam Rayburn stump hard enough to dislodge the outboard from the transom and send it flying into the seat with them. That's the way this freak accident was reported in a post from Outlaw Outdoors. Note the tears and rips in the photo at right, which were caused by the spinning prop.

Luckily, neither angler was injured. The driver narrowly dodged a bullet just because he was leaning forward at the time.

According to local anglers, both Ty and Jason know Sam Rayburn very well, but due to extremely choppy conditions on the tough-to-navigate lake that day, their view was severely reduced. They simply couldn't see the stump, even though they knew it was in the vicinity.

Any experienced boater will attest to the fact it only takes an inch or two in the wrong direction to find yourself in extremis, especially on a tree-ridden lake like Sam Rayburn.

As the Wired2Fish editors said it in their account of the mishap, "We're glad these guys are OK, and like we say all the time, wear your PFD and kill switch. It can save your life."