Thread: If you see this boat......

So far this year I have heard a lot of bad stories about out of state fisherman on KY Lake.

I agree with you that living in this area is great.

I really think a lot of people who have grown up here, don't realize just how good of an area this is.

When I lived on the Illinois/Indiana border. I fished on a small 500 acre private lake.

The nearest lake of any size was a 2 hour drive away.

The largest Lake in Indiana is only 10,750 acres. And I believe the largest in Illinois is only around 25,000 acres.

Kentucky Lake is 160,000 acres, and Barkely is over 50,000 acres.

Kentucky Lake by itself, is larger than every lake in Indiana combined.

Another benefit of this area is that there is over 300,000 acres of public hunting land in the Kentucky/ Barkely lake area.

Sunday I was coming to Buckhorn dock to load. There was a boat tied up at dock, I got my bumpers out and ropes tied to cleats. I was waiting for boat to leave, gave him plenty of room. As he was leaving a water lice from IL cut in front of me and pulled up to dock. I decided to take the high road and bite my tongue.

Sure are some rude clueless people out there.

I Wouldnt Point The Finger At Out Of Staters Only... We Got Rocked By Five Bass Boats Coming Into A No Wake And Probably Blew By The Buoy By 200 Yards Then Shut It Down Quick.. Rocked Our World Each Time.... They Were All From Kentucky Fishing A Bass Tourney In Jonathan Last Saturday.... Trust Me I Know There Are Idiots From Illinois, But There Are Idiots From Every State And I Just Dont See How Anyone Cannot Be Courteous.. Your Supposed To Be Relaxing On The Water..... I Still Laugh At My Old Man.... We Were At Reelfoot

Sorry Bout The End.. The Two Year Hit The Keyboard And Entered It For Me... Continuing.. We Were Fishing At Reelfoot A Few Years Ago... My Old Man Was In His Boat And I Was In Mine With A Friend About 150 Yards Away... We Were The Only Two Boats In This General Area... Here Comes Two Old Timers From Tennessee.. Came Right At My Old Man And Dropper Anchor About 15 Yards Away And Started.... He Stood Up And Whipped Out The Winky And Let It Flow In Their General Direction... I Can Still Remember The Face On My Friend And The Old Timers... Man We Still Laugh About It And That General Area Is Now Called Big Peters Pads...... Anyway We Are Always Courtesy And Love To Shoot The Breeze With Anyone.... Some People Just Look Mad When They Are Fishing, If You Arent Catching Something Oh Well Still A Good Time...

Not pointing out any state or type......except for the type that does stuff like this. I could have banged my 3/4 ounce carolina rig off his boat or in it...but I'm not like that. For 3:30 in the afternoon he watched me catch ALOT of fish while I saw them pull in a couple dinks. Not my fault. 160,000 acres of water and they mess up a 30x30 spot...go figure....hope they have fun on the long haul back home. Indiana sucks by the way.

after all that is what keeps KY from floating down over TN

ISP is right about out of staters not being the only culprits. There are plenty of them right here. Another kind that gets me are the ones thar fish off the docks. I came in yesterday and a woman was fishing on the dock and acted like I was the villain when I came in and tied up so I could load.

Wish there was a lot more common sense and courtesy in the world.

BBD,

I ran over that hump about a week and a half ago spider rigging, and had 4 keeper largemouth hit at the same time! I managed to boat three of them.
CM