Lake rage????

[DJD]

Today at a PondHopper event we had a fella in a full sized bassboat cruising around with his bow nose up. Doing this creats one heck of a wake and these small Jon Boats rock and roll pretty good from knuckleheads like that.
I'm sure he was trying to be considerate but in his effort he made it tough on us. An idle was too slow for him and full speed would have been unsafe with all the boats in the upper reaches of the lake. It takes all kinds...

[djh480]

Today at a PondHopper event we had a fella in a full sized bassboat cruising around with his bow nose up. Doing this creats one heck of a wake and these small Jon Boats rock and roll pretty good from knuckleheads like that.
I'm sure he was trying to be considerate but in his effort he made it tough on us. An idle was too slow for him and full speed would have been unsafe with all the boats in the upper reaches of the lake. It takes all kinds...

Since we are on te subject, I was at Herrington just last nite and just before wegh in for the Gwinn Island Friday Niter here come a bass boat around a bend on the wrong side of the lake and just about run me over so close i got hit with spray. Now this guy knows who he is cos he almost stopped but then decided hell no I got to get to weigh in. I dont like to wish mis-fortune on anyone but I hope he never catch's another fish. And if ya read this and you are him, I must say you are one big dumbass.

[biggw]

And this Pondhoppers event was where? Need info man --and how did you do man???

[DJD]

Gw,
We fished at Willisburg. We took 5th and Banditman took 3rd or 4th? First was 11lbs and change with 4 fish. Around 25 boats....Have you been out lately?

[BanditMan]

I think people don't realize that a boat at 1/4 throttle is 10 times worse than at full throttle. It was rough a couple of times today with that same boat. Be safe out there.

[Newlight]

About 15 years ago we were down at Fishing Creek on Cumberland having a nice, lazy afternoon on our houseboat. A very large cabin cruiser came up the creek throwing a 4-5 ft. wake. My fishing boat ( with my dad in it ) was thrown all the way up the rail on the houseboat and my dad hit the side window of the houseboat cracking it from one end to the other. I took out my binoculars and wrote down the numbers and description of the large cabin cruiser. We went straight up to Lee's Ford in the small boat to find the water patrol officer who had gone by just a few minutes earlier. He took the numbers and came to look at our houseboat; went down the lake and found the larger vessel and cited the driver of the vessel. It was quite an effort to get the window fixed but everything was eventually taken care of thanks to the water patrol guy. I think of that episode everytime I hear of someone getting thrown on the bank by an irresponsiible boater. Many of them need the "heat" thrown to them!

[ttwigg]

A bass boat on plane will not put out a large wake. A bass boat going fast might make some people mad but it will not make those huge waves...