Cedar Creek Lake No Wake Zones will happen

[just wondering what does tournament fisherman have to do with no wake at cedar creek,lmao just somethign to cry about?i dont know about you but most ok i will change that a good number of tourney guys have fished for a while and know boater safety,after all we have to wear our life jackets and while the other population just has to have them on the boat correct?but ya know i am kinda glad they are gonna make this creek and think they should make the other creeks no wake for safety,the cuts are to narrow and its way to easy to loose control zipping through there

can tell you guys from experience as someone who fishes cedar creek from a fourteen foot lowe extra wide john boat. i have been actively fishing many times back in the trees when someone comes through pouring it on it and will slam you with wake. It is not pleasant to be back in those trees and getting pounded by wake. i wish they would leave the main body alone but change it to no wake from were it splits off to go up to the bridge and just make all of the major branches into no wake. what does it help to run wide open from that fork up to the bridge. it isn't that far to go at no wake. i have fished there on foggy mornings and had people running wide open up in that fork and almost run you over. In general people need to pay more attention to there surroundings and those around them, just because I don't want to pay $30,000 for a boat doesn't mean i should not get the same pleasure out of fishing that someone who does. how would they feel if i ran right up next to them pushing off wake. I'd probably get shot. I have a nine year old that loves to fish but i won't take her there in the boat because of this. I will take her to wilgreen or beaver or stoner creek instead just because of people driving there boats carelessly. The regulaions say you should use idle speed to go by someone who is actively fishing. how many actually do it, very few. Those scratches on my $5,000 boat from being slammed into a tree from your wake hurt my heart just as much as it does the guy who gets a scratch on his $30,000 boat. How many people complain about the jet ski's and the pleasure boaters and the water skier's ruining there fishing and then turn around and do it to someone else. we should all slow down a little and be courteous to the next guy.

The more no wake zones the better at Cedar Creek.

The area that they are talking about doesn't need no wake buoys it needs navigational buoys. They might want to go in this winter and make the path wider so that more than two boats can fit at one time.

[QUOTE=Tim_T;372178]Mark, of course the slot helped Dale, but that doesn't mean it would help Cumberland and Laurel, they are not Dale. There is a reason the world record smallmout and most of the largest smallies in the world have come from Dale. Just like there is a reason(s) that almost all of the 20 pound largemouth in history have come from California.

As for the guides clients bringing home smallmouth, would would keep the from doing it to a legal fish regardless. I think there maybe more reasons than some grass that makes Cumberland not like Dale.

Btw, keep disagreeing with me and I will not talk sports with you LOL![/QUOTE]

Not to butt in, but I am just wondering, was the record smallmouth caught on the ky side or the tn side. Because I found this say that Cooley Williams has the state record-http://www.hollybaymarina.com/record_fish.htm. I know in 55 it was caught while trolling? Does Colley have the record for actually fishing for the fish?

[QUOTE=dsonthelake84;372551]Not to butt in, but I am just wondering, was the record smallmouth caught on the ky side or the tn side. Because I found this say that Cooley Williams has the state record-http://www.hollybaymarina.com/record_fish.htm. I know in 55 it was caught while trolling? Does Colley have the record for actually fishing for the fish?[/QUOTE]

That listing is old. A few years back some questions arose about David L. Hayes catch and it was delisted for a while and the state record was then from Laurel, but the record was reinstated. The way I understand it was that Hayes was fishing close to the state line and wasn't sure what state he was in, so both Kentucky and Tennessee claim the world record smallie as the state record.