Story from Cedar Creek

[DYNATRAK]

well i thought my good buddy rustedhook would tell this one, but i guess not. he and i were fishing thursday morning on the rr tracks. everyone knows the cut through right in the middle.

we were fishing the cut through and a boat just about ran us over. the complete idiot was blazing up from the bridge, made a hard right, squirrled his boat that just about lost him, but just kept hammering down the throttle as he zipped right past us at the cut through.

i've never seen anything like that; first time i got a little scared out there.

it happened so fast ron and i looked like deer in headlights. that boat was so close to us that i believe his spray hit the trolling motor. no more than 15 feet away from us. that cut through is pretty narrow.

i was looking for the nearest exit from the back of the boat and a clean pair of underwear. ron was a cool customer with just a few choice words for the boater.

if you are running down the lake and someone is on the railroad tracks actively fishing; ESPECIALLY if they are right at the cut through, you have to slow down to idle speed as you pass them. IDLE SPEED, please.


someone's going to get killed out there and i sure don't want it to be me; or ron (he knows where all the big fish live)

[BanditMan]

Wow I hear you. That opening is like the backstretch at Daytona. Been in that situation more than once at that spot. It wouldn't hurt my feelings if it was no wake about 100 yards from there all the way back.

[rustedhook]

I'm still cleaning my britches. This guy never slowed down one bit. When he made the turn I thought his butt end was going to pass his front end. All the way home I kept seeing his boat hit us and four people being seriously hurt.

[PROANGLER746]

Just got done preping my boat for a trip in the morning to Cedar. The first time out this year! The Army has kept me so busy I am about to die for my fix!!! Now I read this and I am bringing my anti idiot gear.

[Chubminnow]

What adds icing to the cake is you say this didn't happen on a weekend but on Thursday morning! Geesh!! Is this lake that crowded on a weekday morning or was this guy just "that stupid"? I have never been to Cedar Creek but from everything I've read on this website about it, it doesn't sound like I'm missing much. I like to fish and I like to catch fish, but dealing with idiots is not something I care for doing, plus I ain't very good at dealing with idiots anyway (short fuse syndrome).

[DYNATRAK]

What adds icing to the cake is you say this didn't happen on a weekend but on Thursday morning! Geesh!! Is this lake that crowded on a weekday morning or was this guy just "that stupid"? I have never been to Cedar Creek but from everything I've read on this website about it, it doesn't sound like I'm missing much. I like to fish and I like to catch fish, but dealing with idiots is not something I care for doing, plus I ain't very good at dealing with idiots anyway (short fuse syndrome).

"THAT STUPID!" would be an underestatement for what this idiot did.

[Wormin]

What adds icing to the cake is you say this didn't happen on a weekend but on Thursday morning! Geesh!! Is this lake that crowded on a weekday morning or was this guy just "that stupid"? I have never been to Cedar Creek but from everything I've read on this website about it, it doesn't sound like I'm missing much. I like to fish and I like to catch fish, but dealing with idiots is not something I care for doing, plus I ain't very good at dealing with idiots anyway (short fuse syndrome).

Hey Chub I see your from the Ville so think of Taylorsville on the 4th and multiply the crown times 4 then reduce the lake size by a factor of 10 and you now have Cedar on the weekend.

[Chubminnow]

Hey Chub I see your from the Ville so think of Taylorsville on the 4th and multiply the crown times 4 then reduce the lake size by a factor of 10 and you now have Cedar on the weekend.

The last time I went to Taylorsville was sometime in the summer of 2008 and I swore then I'd never go back..and it wasn't a holiday weekend either, just a regular ol' weekend.

[elnutsmalljaws]

Bring on the Alberta Clippers, December, 33 degrees, sleet, snow, rain, wind out of the north at about 10, on a Tuesday and my beloved Dale Hollow. Very few fishermen, no jet skis, no party boaters, just me, my favorite FNF rod and BIG SMALLMOUTH munching on the fly.

[thebassman30]

Word on that....and if you can't get your main homey Cliff...maybe it will be with your backup homey Mark 8^)

[ryan_ekubass]

Bring on the Alberta Clippers, December, 33 degrees, sleet, snow, rain, wind out of the north at about 10, on a Tuesday and my beloved Dale Hollow. Very few fishermen, no jet skis, no party boaters, just me, my favorite FNF rod and BIG SMALLMOUTH munching on the fly.

i was out on laurel last night fishin up around hightop adn there was about 5 teenage kids swimming about past the bouys at the high top boat ramp at night with no lifejackets and no lights i could just hear themand barely see them in what little moon was reflecting off the water and they seemed to be drinkin a bit since i heard dont get water in the beam on several occasions... i looked around and there was still people running everywheres like idiots... we left there and went over to spruce creek then i also seen a guy go up in spruce creek doing everybit of 70 at about 1 am and it almost to foggy to distinguish the treeline with the sky turn around and whip right in front of us about 50 yards in front of us... but it was about 2 or so... so i just picked up the ole trolling motor and we headed on in.... i figure if someone is ignorant enough to risk there life at such a high rate of speed on a foggy night then they can have it... i mean it was laurel lake so there wasnt much catchin goin on...and its pretty narrow at the mouth of spruce creek but i did have a brown fish go 18 inches on a jig..and we caught 5 others next biggest was a 14 inch greenfish.... OH yeah and i so cannot wait to get that conservation officer job.... cause i am going to just cruise the lake at night and watch lights click on on boats then i am going to give them a boating safety reminder... at night i usually get on pad and then hold it there aint no sense in goin no faster.... we ran from the mouth of spruce and back to grove... which is about 1 mile or so... i seen probably 4 or 5 boat lights come on as i was going down the lake... it was like i was setting off motion lights..... BUT back to elnuts comment.... i looked down at the ole timex prior to pulling up the trolling motor to leave and told dad.... a little over 5 months till this water is about 35 degrees cooler and we will be jiggling that bobber waiting on them big brown monsters that patrol the haunts of dale, laurel and cland.......

[Chubminnow]

Bring on the Alberta Clippers, December, 33 degrees, sleet, snow, rain, wind out of the north at about 10, on a Tuesday and my beloved Dale Hollow. Very few fishermen, no jet skis, no party boaters, just me, my favorite FNF rod and BIG SMALLMOUTH munching on the fly.

You know Elnuts...I was just thinking today how dag gone hot it's been here lately and then I read your post and I suddenly felt a slight chill...Your posts and the tv show Deadliest Catch have a way of cooling me off.