Quote Originally Posted by PRO V LE View Post
As a 35+year Cumberland fisherman will you please explain to me why the Poker run is "a mess" the majority of these boaters are very experinced(sp) and are only in a particular area for a short time during the day. Do you really think that the owner of a $1mil. boat is a idiot?
The raft up is from 12 till 5pm. do you wish to fish that bank in August at that time?
I have to check on-line for any tourney's going out at night before I will go out, try pulling planer boards or downrigging at night with a armada of Bullets, Rangers, Tritons etc. heading straight at you maxed out on the pad.
And yes I did that been there thing, Skeeter Wrangler 1979, 71 MPH on radar.
Have you ever been on the lake during the poker run? Don't think so when you say one particular spot for a little while. THEY run from dock to dock picking up playing cards try to get the best hand . then meet back at one spot for prizes and to see who is the drunkest ...
Lake cumberland outdoors has had their classic on that night and it is a nightmare. The IDIOTS are running full bore and it is awful hundreds of boats every where. ALSO it never makes the papers about the injuries and deaths EVERY YEAR .... Last year we took off from conley bottoms and there was 2 boats ran aground at the boys camp area . One was a good 75 yards up in the woods and as low as cumberland is that took some doing. Also they were air lifting one guy who was ran over on a jet sky. the chopper was landing at camp earl wallace. SAW IT not just rumors. The year before that one guy was killed as soon as it started . I think he was the 4-5 boat to take off. AND the year before that one guy was killed on friday before it started tuning his fountain and missed the turn in indian . The thing is over around 5 pm but they run ALL NIGHT.. and by the time we are fishing they are good and drunk.
And as your question about a guy with a million dollar boat being an idiot.... DUH think about it... lol
As for the raft up yea they are in one spot but they have to get there and leave when it is over they aren't going to be air lifted off the water. Don't think the parking lot at burnside island holds 1500 trucks and trailers ...