Lights on while fishing!

[elnutsmalljaws]

38 MPH

[charlie1]

Don't you think 38 MPH is too fast to be going at night (unless you are out in the middle on a moonlit night)? Where's the fire? It would a lot safer if people would get up on plane and then slow it down to just fast enough to keep it there. Hey, you may be in the right but dead is dead.

[elnutsmalljaws]

I don't think 38 is too fast at night. I crash into them at 15 or 20 is still just as bad as 38. I would much rather crash and die on impact versus crash and put in life support for a week or so then die. If you think I am idleing around every place I go then you have another thing coming. If I wanted to spend my night moving from place to place at idle speed then I might as well get a Kayak and save the gas. I know Dale Hollow pretty well and was in the main river channel with 60 feet of water below me and in no jeopardy of hitting any bank in summer time where there are no floaters. I do slow down and give plenty of room around points and islands. Going 38 in a straight stretch in the river channel is not the same as doing 38 in spring with floaters or cutting the corners off the points. This fool has no lights on his john boat trying to get to the ramp to take out and it is supposively my fault for running too fast. Hell I would have no problem doing 70 at night if I could. The problem is not with how I operate my boat, it is all the fools that don't have a clue. I am the first to admit I turn off my lights when I am in the act of fishing points or close to the bank. I do keep them on when I am fishing a ledge in the middle of the lake. Either way, I have a 5 Million Candlepower spotlight always within reach to let passing boaters know of my surroundings when I am fishing points or whereever else. If Johnny Law wants to fine me then fine me, I still will not leave them on when I am fishing except in the main line of travel. Just like everything else on this planet - COMMAN SENSE PLAYS A BIG PART ON WHETHER WE ALL GO HOME OR NOT AFTER A NIGHT OF FISHING. Too many MORANS, FOOLS, IDIOTS, KNUCKLEHEADS OR WHATEVER else you want to call them are coming out of the woodwork to take up night fishing, docking houseboats or pontoons in coves with no lights on, or worse jet ski at night and it is becoming more and more dangerous. All I can do is my part. If we all did this then there would not be an issue.