Originally Posted by
rainbowchaser
Quite a few years ago my dad and I caught a lot of nice perch on Muskegon Lake one week so we called my cousin to drive fifty miles to join on on the next weekend. The Saturday he came up the winds were blowing very strong but we would be inside a portable shanty once we got set up so we decided to go anyway. We hauled our gear out to the middle of the lake and popped up the shelter. I stepped inside to lock the center brace into place when the wind picked up some more. In fact it picked up the whole shanty with me inside. I was carried several hundred yards down the lake before it hit something and flipped on it's side and continued down the lake with me lying on the vinyl wall until another fisherman was able to intercept us. Thereafter we drilled an anchor hole and dropped the anchoring spike in before we set up the tent.