Kix Brooks Tells Insane Story Of How Dale Earnhardt Once Threw Him Off His Fishing Boat Into Freshly Chummed Water… & Then Drove Away

That would my last fishing trip with Dale Earnhardt.

The NASCAR legend was good friends with 90’s superstars Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn, and he even starred in the music video for their song “Honky Tonk Truth” back in 1997.

The duo has told some great stories about him over the years, but this one… this beats all I’ve ever heard.

Kix and Ronnie sat down with NASCAR reporter Marty Smith ahead of SEC Media Day for an interview, and Kix told an absolutely unhinged Dale Sr. story that had my jaw on the floor. He recalled going on a fishing trip with Dale and their families back in the 90’s, I assume, in San Salvador, where they caught a ton of good stuff and fished all day long. By the end of the day, Kix was ready to relax and have an ice cold beer.

Well, just as they were winding down, Kix pointed out some marlins swimming along the side of the boat like dolphins, and Dale got fired up once again… though Kix was over it, Dale made him reel one in:

“We had our families together, you know, on his boat and we had caught fish all day long. I’m worn out and went up top, drinking a beer, and he’s cleaning off the back deck on his fishing boat. It’s a 51-foot Hatteras, nice fishing boat. I just look at the front, these marlin were just jumping and playing a couple hundred yards out front of the boat. Just kind of fall along like dolphins kinda do… I said, ‘Earnhardt, check this out!’

He starts throwing lines back in the water, ‘We’re gonna get them.’ ‘You’re not gonna catch those fish and I am done pulling fish in.’ We had caught mahi and wahoo and just fish all day. My son caught a bunch of tuna heads, because the water is full of sharks down there in San Salvador where we’re fishing. Anyway, so sure enough, I see a mahi head back there and he goes, ‘We got one!’ I told you, get down there you’re going to reel him in.’ I go, ‘I’m not gonna reel him in, you reel him in, I’m tired of catching fish.’

He said, ‘Get your a** over here.’ ‘Okay, okay, okay.’ So I go down the ladder, you know, I put about two cranks on it and this marlin jumps out of the water, I was wrong, and he can’t get excited enough. He’s like, ‘I told you!’ We get him up the side of the boat, we plugged him with a tag and get his marlin flag up and he’s like, ‘Do you know what you’ve done?’ I’m like, ‘I know, we caught another fish. I’m gonna go finish my beer.'”

Kix thought they were finally done, so he went back up to the top to sit down and finish his drink.

Well, just about that time, Dale noticed a bunch of sea turtles in the water, and he threw the chum that had been using as bait in there for them to eat. He called Kix back down to see them, and Kix was intrigued so he got up again to go back down… but he probably shouldn’t have.

As he was looking over the boat in to the water, Dale picked him up and threw him in the ocean without warning, where he landed in the water, trying not to splash, coming up every several seconds to get air with blood all over his face. I mean, dang… I almost have no words. Not only did Dale throw him in, he then turned to their captain, Terry, and told them it was time to go.

Kix said he could hear his wife screaming “profanities” as he watched the boat get further away and much smaller. Dale decided it was funny enough and they came back to get him. Luckily, Kix came away with all of his body parts still attached:

“So I go up top, he’s got this whole bucket full of chum, bloody chum that we’ve been using for bait and whatever. He says, ‘Shut the boat down. Look at these sea turtles.’ And he dumps the chum over there. He goes, ‘Man, check this out, KB.’ Hell, I wanted to see the sea turtles. So I go sliding back down, I looked over the side, and he grabbed me by the seat of the pants and just threw me out there in that bloody water.

And I’m sure it was like a Tarantino movie, because I wouldn’t even move my legs. You know, I’m just gonna come up and get a breath. I’m sure I had blood all over my face and everything else. He says, ‘Let’s go, Terry,’ talking to the captain. They take off, I can hear my wife screaming every time I come up, you know, profanities as the boat gets smaller and smaller than the distance. Finally, you know, it was funny enough and he came back and got me and I still have most of my body parts.”

Just insane… and something only Dale Earnhardt could get away with, truly.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s wife, Amy, saw the clip and summed it up perfectly:

“Wildman!”

You just have to listen to Kix tell it himself… it’s unbelievable. I thought it was a joke when he first started telling it, but it’s a completely true story:

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If you’ve never seen the “Honky Tonk Truth” music video before, it’s high time to change that. The description says it’s without Dale Sr., but he’s definitely there… and looks strikingly similar to Kix, actually:

“Honky Tonk Truth”

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