pleasure boat riders!

[mhall]

Awe, where is Mirage when you need him, lol. This is why I NEVER EVER NEVER EVER EVER GO TO THE BIG C ON POKER WEEKEND, DID I SAY EVER, LOL! I love that lake as much as I do my wife and I know when to let'em have it. I feel your pain fellas but who ever planned this tourney on Poker weekend was all out NUTS! Cold weather will be here soon and all the BFO's and CC Drunks will all go home and we will be left with beautiful solitude and silence, awe I can't wait.

BTW, this weekend is the annual lake cleanup weekend, support it if you can, these folks work hard every year to pick up mountains of trash that morons leave behind.

[vorbeck23]

I hate the Ohio Navy as much as any one, but they do bring a much needed boost to the economy of the area. That being said, they need to enjoy the lake while complying with all local laws. The ones who do this I have no problem with. The ones who dont, make it dangerious for every one on the lake.

The same things can be said for us fishermen as well. It is illegal to run the lake while running headlights. It blinds any one comming at you. They can not see the nav lights and have no idea which way they need to go to stay safe. The head lights are great to dock the boat and to click on and off to see if there is any thing floating in the water. If you need to run headlights to run the lake you have no business running at night.

Just my two cents...lol

[lroberts]

I must agree here.....how can we complain about pleasure boaters breaking the laws if we "choose" to ignore laws about using headlights on boats. You can't knock someone for breaking a law if you do the same thing......even if the law they are breaking seems worse to you. If you can't see to drive a boat at night....put it on the trailer...or even better never take it off of it!

[jigman73]

Common sense would state that if you see a set of headlights then you should know that is the front of the boat. Next, headlights have kept me from running into a boat setting out in the middle of the lake with no lights on more than once. So as long as there is the possibility of boats and houseboats setting out in the middle of the lake with No lights on, I will use headlights on my boat. Good or bad, I consider the use of headlights on my boat at night a neccesity for my safety and for those that are in my boat at night. Jmo

Lee

[Barry2780]

I agree jigman, i mean headlights have saved alot of lifes at night! headlights shouldnt be against the law because there are numerous people out there that dont turn on there lights and almost gets ran over if it wasnt for the headlights!

[ky.jonboatfisher]

ok so i own a ski boat, not a cruiser but still its a pleasure boat along with my bass boat and theres no reason to be dissing on pleasure boaters because they have all the right to be on the lake as fisherman do no more and no less, just equal so yes i agree that the waves are annoying and yes they can be dangerous at times but they have all the right to be on the lake as fisherman. But Im not disagreeing with you about the waves and annoying cruisers because they do annoy me when im fishing.

[HURRICANEBOB]

they do annoy me when im fishing.

They annoy me when I'm getting my butt wet because they swamped my boat no matter what I'm doing. I hear ya guy, I pleasure boat too, as well as fish. I just get real peeved when some smuck darn near drowns me because he's too inconsiderate to use a litle common sense. I look out for others, and I expect the meathead on the "lake destroyer" to do the same. And yep, he has the right to pleasure boat, but it doesn't over rule my right to survive.

[kygorski]

You know if we usewd common sense, and obeyed the existing laws, the lakes would be safwer for all of us. Its kid stuff to point to the other law breaker while we are breaking the law. I fish at night, I hate using my lights while fishing, but I do it. sure if i'm in the back of a creek, I may turmn them off, but if i hwear anything running they come on.I've only been fishing cumberland and dale for the past 16 years, but I've been night fishing for about 40 years. One thing i know for sure, the rarest thing on many waters is common sense.

[Chubminnow]

Ok...I'm coming out of the closet, lol..I too am a pleasure boater during the summer. My wife and I have a 24' Searay Sundancer...and waves really tick me off if the wife and I are anchored in a cove. If we're not far enough back in a cove other boaters will come on through to get to the back and when they do it seems like lots of times they come through at half throttle causing the biggest waves possible. Heck it's really quite simple, for no wake zones or in more narrow waters such as creeks/coves, go ahead and back off the throttle and use that time to get a beverage from the cooler or straighten up the boat a bit or whatever, but some people don't get it.

[kygorski]

OK get mad at me, used to it. been married twice, [widowed twice]. There are only three reasons for water as far as I'm conerned.1 for fishing 2 to make coffee 3 to make beer! Never got that heated about bass fishing, I like it, but I came from an area where there were closed seasons on bass.So we fished for what was legal. There were no tournaments, and buy the time they came popular, and I fished a few with my cousins, I had a family to support and schools to pay for. Plus I took my kid fishing.I dont like water skiers, jet skiers, and if any of you guys ever ice fished, I dont like snowmobiles either. But all these folks have a right to enjoy their outdoor experiences.I never went on a cruise, except a troop ship, because they frowned on trolling.Theres a time and place for everything, room for all of us, and many hours of pleasure for us all, As long as we dont infringe on each other.

[Bass_King2007]

Like barry and others said i will continue to run my headlights no matter how many tickets i get.... A 40,000 $ bass boats will not be tore up and my life put in danger b/c of some idiot that doenst know how to turn on running lights on their boat... and i didnt catch the officers name that told me but when he stopped me i asked him if he knew what when on at boys camp y there was so many helicopters and ambulaces coming down to the lake... and he said and i quote"some drunk idiot fell off of a houseboat" and he said that there had been mulitple injuries that the numbers were high... I polightly asked him how many dui's had been issued and he said he hadnt wrote any... i just laughed in a smart @&& manor cuz thats stupid!!!

[DogFood]

I know this is an idiotic question, but what is a "Poker Run?"