So I’m out on the shoal just south of the Connecticut river doing what I love the best: trolling for stripers with tube and worm at sunset. My 25ft Grady White is chugging along and I look back at my lines and notice one of my lines has picked up some seaweed.
I go back to the line, pick it up and retrieve it until the bait is next to the boat with the seaweed hung on it. I bend over the side of the my boat to clear the line and in an instant I find myself head over heals and submerged in the Long Island Sound! I pop my head out of the water and try to figure out what is going on. I float to the stern of the boat and manage to get myself back in. Soaking wet and disoriented I hear a high pitched pulsing noise coming out of the Host unit of my Autotether.
It is then that I realized that my boat had stopped because the Autotether had gone into alarm and shut off the engine! I had owned the Autotether for over the course of 2 fishing seasons and become so accustomed to using it, that it was like putting on a seatbelt in my car. I had taken the use of the Autotether for granted and was no longer really conscious that I was using it! But the one time that I needed it to work, it performed flawlessly and saved my life. Thanks Autotether!
Today this is a fiction: tomorrow this could be you!
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