Never fish in a small boat after 11am

I do most my fishing early morning or late evenings, but yesterday wife wanted to go and it was about 1pm. Loaded up and headed out the Missy. I could see when we got there it was a bad idea, "speed" boats every where zipping back and forth. My boat is a 10' jon boat with a 3hp, it's heavy duty and sturdy, but small. We headed out, heading for the dam to anchor off . The "normal" boat traffic was making it somewhat rough, but we had a couple people buzz by us, as in they turned their coarse to purposely buzz by us and we about lost it. This went on till we got to the dam and anchored about 20'-25' from the dam. Calmed down a little and we caught a few gills, then we get buzzed, real close, water got in the boat, actually scared my wife. The kicker was when the boat went by they looked back at us as we tried to hang on and they all were laughing and pointing. So I guess it was so funny they did it again. We pulled up and left, staying close to the shore and got buzzed a few more times on the way back. I understand everyone has the right to use the lake, but it's a big lake, if you see a small craft is it to much to try and avoid it ? When did attempting to capsize a boat and drowned people become so funny ? I blame myself for thinking I could fish from a small boat on a Sat. afternoon on a 3,000+ acre public lake. I won't even go into what happened on the ramp when we were leaving, just love this "me first" world we live in.

Ahh..., feel better now, all vented out ;)

Push come to shove I would get the registration number off their boat and report them. Hell maybe even pull out the cell phone and capture video of it. No need for all that. People could get seriously.

I feel for ya had a 14 foot jon in 70 s used to get swamped at cataract and Monroe retired it to small electric only lake I fished and got a deep v it is still bumpy on weekends but I stay safe and dry and still small enough to get in skinny waters a shame people do that

call DNR they put a stop to it

Registration number and a photo. They would wish they never saw my small boat when I finished with them. Every state has laws against just what they were doing. And ifin not mistaken there is also a federal law against it.

I dont even like being out there in my 19 ft boat from 11am to about 6pm to many jacka$$$

Have you ever tried the small ramp up in idle zone on north east side of 13 bridge its ideal for small crafts like yours and wont get ran over

oh yeah 14 ft Grumman Semi V here ...
With a earth shaking 9.9. thank goodness on my boat the gunnells are really high.

Heck its ruff when even a pontoon or two try to swamp you and they are full of old retired women!

if i do fish during the day at brookville I stay in the idle zones

Be safe all!

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Originally Posted by smokercraft

I dont even like being out there in my 19 ft boat from 11am to about 6pm to many jacka$$$

Have you ever tried the small ramp up in idle zone on north east side of 13 bridge its ideal for small crafts like yours and wont get ran over

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Ya, haven't been there in a few years, "ramp" was getting ruts and loose, didn't want to get truck stuck.

night before last i had a boat come up river fullout with no lights. passed within 40ft of me anchored up on the channel edge. that could have been a bad situation. i had no time to switch on my lights. also, i have been known to take a nap while waiting for the clicker to go off. lol when at anchor i dont run any lights, because of the bugs.

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Originally Posted by river scum

night before last i had a boat come up river fullout with no lights. passed within 40ft of me anchored up on the channel edge. that could have been a bad situation. i had no time to switch on my lights. also, i have been known to take a nap while waiting for the clicker to go off. lol when at anchor i dont run any lights, because of the bugs.

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Man that's scary down here it's law to have it on at night

I always leave em on I got areal tall pole for lights keeps bugs away some what

law here, white anchor light has to be on when anchored red green lights on when moving

We have to have the whites on while anchored and the colored on while moving. You also have to stay a minimum of 100'from another craft.

Hope you got the reg numbers and reported the boat.

no cubswin, i didnt. im not one to use the law. i find i get better results myself. lol

not sure on our laws but i never been hassled for not having them on. i see most fishermen light out when at anchor. law or not mine stay off when im not running, until i hear/see a boat coming.

that is bad kyron4. you can take a bigstik cat rod equipped with 80# firewire and a 6oz weight. see how far you can cast. Or call PoleCat I love to run down jerks in my Triton bass boat. And show them what @#$% hitting the fan sounds like....MARINE :biggrin

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Originally Posted by HoosierPoleCat

that is bad kyron4. you can take a bigstik cat rod equipped with 80# firewire and a 6oz weight. see how far you can cast. Or call PoleCat I love to run down jerks in my Triton bass boat. And show them what @#$% hitting the fan sounds like....MARINE :biggrin

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I like the way you think there is no room for that kind of stuff at night or day on the water we have a lot of commercial fisherman in this area and at the end if the day when they are hauling 1000 plus pound of crawfish out of the swamp and inconsiderate boater pass them wide open and never look back you can believe if they are met at the launch they learn their lesson

a few rounds from a 357 mag stops that,and they called the law on me and they got procuted for it my bulletts were right down the middle of his boat bottom so they new what was going on.

You actually shot a guys boat and got away with it?

had a buddy do that in florida he was in a gheenoe a big boat repeatedly buzzed him he fired shots and spent 30 days in jail you are vey lucky you didn t as well we all want to stop that behavior but shooting is a little excessive

shooting should be self defense in a case like that a person could drown that way.

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Originally Posted by Ken Kinser

a few rounds from a 357 mag stops that,and they called the law on me and they got procuted for it my bulletts were right down the middle of his boat bottom so they new what was going on.

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Huh ? I believe according to the law you would go to jail or at the very least be fined for recklessness with a firearm . It's not like TV, you just don't get to shoot at anybody or anything and it's okay cause you think you're in the right. Please don't take offense but with the grammar and spelling, I have to wonder if your were a little intoxicated when you posted this ?