Both accidents today.
https://youtu.be/ER8MpSvMP_s?si=k9MuPhrhMPP6H62t
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https://youtu.be/ax6pZ0xIzzU?si=_074OwszKrxZkHlN
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Both accidents today.
https://youtu.be/ER8MpSvMP_s?si=k9MuPhrhMPP6H62t
and
https://youtu.be/ax6pZ0xIzzU?si=_074OwszKrxZkHlN
I fish lake of the ozarks and it's crazy the size and speed of these boats these days we have our fair share of accidents i'm just surprised there's not even more that place is crazy dangerous during the summer months....
Spring is probably the worst in that a lot of guys haven’t been out in a long time and are careless. Alcohol takes over as the weather warms up.
Bob
our lakes have zero alcohol program , you get ketched drinking and operating a boat and it is a very sad experience , they treat the same as a dwi on the road.
and to be sure most if not all the fast boat operators are nowhere near good enough to own and operate such a vessel.
When I was young one ,we ran lots of water craft and even way back then it was amazing the amount of stupidity exhibited by people operating boats.
My dad was big on boating rules and I was 13 before I was even allowed to operate one solo .
I almost lost my life when I was about 10 on a homemade board we designed to pull behind one of our larger vessels , It had a rope on the front to hold onto and I leaned too far forward and it dove with me still holding on ! As I swam to the surface another boat ran over the top of me when I was about 2 feet from the surface , he cut my tow rope and had no clue I was even in the water .
It is really a good thing my dad was more concerned with my well being at that moment in time for sure or we would have been in the newspapers the following day about the guy some other guy killed on the Big Lehigh River in an argument ....not even kidding
p.s. to this day I remember how surreal it was watching that prop wash go by that fast ,right above my head :banghead
Glad it missed, that could have damaged the prop. :Rofl Jokes aside that could have been bad. Glad you weren't hurt. Sounds like he was following way to close as well as not paying attention.
Both of these accidents involved tournament anglers.
Amen, to begin careful. A bass tournament angler friend and I were seeing these reports yesterday also.
He has an app that reports boating incidents as they are reported. He stated that they are occurring way more than usual.
He told me two weeks ago he was pleasure fishing with his wife but the lake in Alabama he was fishing was holding a tournament in which the boats had a judge in each boat. They saw one of the anglers that was in the tournament run between the shoreline and my friend and his wife fishing and he was disqualified from the tournament for the unsafe act.
But we can all expect to get checked by game wardens more often especially if folks are becoming less safe on the water. As it should be. Remember respect others and be safe.
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Good thing you didn't have a life jacket on!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
I'm always baffled as to why folks want to go fast on the water. I'm a member of a jon boat forum and i'm constantly getting into with young guys want to put a 40hp outboard on a 12ft jon boat. I tell them get a bigger hull if you want to go with a larger motor but i'm attacked by guys who say no guts no glory. These same guys who will spend gobs of money for pods, new props and building up the transom to hold larger motors when geting a larger boat would accomplish what the want for a cheaper price. The need for speed on the water creates a danger to everyone on the water.
It's sad to read stuff like this. Fast boats are like fast cars, just because you can afford one doesn't mean you have the skill to drive it to its potential.
You have to understand the younger folks a bit better. First they live in an instant world. They don’t think they have time to wait. Second we use to think spending one hundred dollars was a lot. That’s to them is like when we use to spend a dime. They’ve never bought gas for thirty five cents a gallon like we did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grainraiser
They also go fishing but making sure they have time for all the other activities in their lives. So it’s essential to get from point A to point B faster than everyone else. So by all means don’t get in their way.
Finally, they don’t fish for pleasure, I really don’t know what they fish for other than going fast and listening to load music. Hope this helps make some sense. It still doesn’t to me and I have grown kids and teenaged grandkids.
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Originally Posted by silverroach
Yep they have a different mindset than us. I bought a Corvette when I was 54. The very first question young people ask me is how fast will she go. I tell them 160 mph but I have never driven it that fast. They then wonder why did I buy it in the first place. I have zero desire to drive that fast and if I did it would be on a track not a public road.
Yes sir, I tune 65 next month Good Lord Willing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grainraiser
But I definitely remember being young. But when it came to fishing it was as it is today. To take what is given and get away out in nature.
Some days is as fast as you throw it in, some days is work at it. But like I tell folks when I am fishing the world stops turning as far as I am concerned. Me and the fish are as one.
Heck I can set and watch a blue herring catch fish. If I could change a few things. Stop the invention on Seedoo’s, no boat motors over a 35 hp and load radios. Ha ha! We were all young once.
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Yep, young minds work different, they don't have decades of life's experiences.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grainraiser
I'm a gear head, always have been and most likely always will be. Over the years I've just about always had a hot rod of some sort. When I was young, I pulled a lot of stupid stunts with cars, it's only by the grace of God that I never hurt anyone. Many years ago, someone told me that the good Lord looks out for fools and small children, I wasn't a small child. LOL
My current hot rod will high 9's at a tick over 135 mph in the quarter mile. If you get stupid with it on the street you can get in trouble in a hurry. Several times guys have wanted to race this on the street, I always tell them I'll meet them at the drag strip.
At 64 I still love going fast, it just tempered with years of experience now.
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Originally Posted by silverroach
I am older than you, and have a 75 Stinger on my 1542 Express river boat .... but I only go fast when I need to. ... life is too short lo lollygag around!
Yep, I fish rivers mainly big and small in Mississippi and Alabama. I run two boats. One fifteen and a half foot with 25 hp. And a 19.5 footer with a 115 on it. Just depends on the size river or where I am trying to get into.Quote:
Originally Posted by ACAMS
Spend most of my time in the fifteen footer. And at times weather can dictate what I go in too. You can get in trouble pretty quickly if you’re not careful. In years past, I bass tournament fished road with partners a lot faster than I wanted to go in a boat. Especially on some of these large river fed lakes.
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Today, I got lucky that I saw a bird sitting on a stump (or a branch of a log) that happens to stick up between several sets of track on my Navi that I’ve run by outside of Lost Rabbit on Ross Barnett Reservoir, and I definitely slowed down to mark it as a hazard (and named STUMP) so that I know how to avoid it.
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That’s wild! But good!Quote:
Originally Posted by silverroach
What app does your buddy use?
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No fast boats aren't like cars, CARS HAVE BRAKES, BOATS DON'T and it seems to me that a lot of boaters forget that fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by justinp61
I followed the tragedy on the web and to me it all seemed preventable. Sad situation all around. Prayers for the families
Here in the Buckeye State we do not have enough officers to tighten down on enforcement. My wife and I have chosen to sit out fishing Friday through Sunday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lund
Yes, in the aspect that you have to use a little common sense when operating they are.Quote:
Originally Posted by wannabe fisherman
I heard he was in heavy fog .... can't find the truth anywhere!Quote:
Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie
So the question is, was the boater watching where he was going, or was watching his ffs instead? And we all know that some think they own the water, and that you should get out of their way. Will assume that the ones who drowned, didn't have on life jackets either.
From what I heard the three were in a center console fishing and the tournament guy ran into them. Another tournament guy seen them earlier and said they were in a bad position to his camera man in his boat. Then when they heard there was an accident he said he knew exactly where it was at.
SMH, I guess you have no idea how FFS works? Not used under power well TM power.Quote:
Originally Posted by S10CHEVY
3 killed in 2-boat collision during fishing competition on Alabama lake, state authorities say - ABC NewsQuote:
Originally Posted by ACAMS
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3 dead, several injured in boat crash; Smith Lake fishing tournament cancelled - al.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjQRQQlEHkk&t=2s
(Update) ALEA releases IDs of all involved in fatal Smith Lake boat crash - The Cullman Tribune
This guy passes by them in the morning. There wasn’t any heavy fog.
https://youtu.be/iCVeXWYUMcA?si=y2wge1AwZG14BiAX
Well, he sure wasn't watching where he was going, now was he? It would have never happened, if he had been. And no, I guess I didn't know that.Quote:
Originally Posted by keeferfish
The so called bad position,looks pretty ok to me in the video below, very few bass tourney's on the lakes I ''fish'' up here Minnycaliforna I'm glad for that.....Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperDave336
I launched on Ky Lake this morning before daylight. Not to be the first to my spot, parking is tight and getting stuck behind some guy unloading his life’s treasures into his boat while parked on a one lane ramp is not one of my favorite things.
It was still very dark and I heard a bass tournament take off from a ramp two miles away. Understand Ky Lake is full of trash from foam cups to telephone pole sized timber right now from the flooding. There was a breeze so there was a chop. That chop makes seeing surface clutter almost impossible in good daylight. The tournament was a shotgun start so everybody took off like the Indy 500. The fastest 2 boats went by me no more than 300 yards away without a hint of a bow or stern light In The Dark!! They were both running well over 70 mph. There wasn’t a snowball’s chance in Hadez that either could have seen or avoided a large piece of floating debris or a parked boat without lights.
I instantly thought of the accidents this week. These guys today should have been arrested and their man cards removed. Getting a jump over one’s competitors in a stupid tournament that won’t pay gas money made risking their lives worth it in their pea-sized brains! Doing it in the dark meant those behind you couldn’t see where you were headed.
I witnessed an accident during the 1980 Georgia BASS Federation State Championship on Lake Eufaula. We were held from launching at the appointed time by heavy fog. When we were finally allowed to take off, it was side by side, two at a time. A popular boat then was the HydraSports. Most of them were underpowered in those days and took what seemed like 100 yards to plane off. A friend of mine in an 18 foot HydraSports was waved off by the starters. Directly in front of him was a Bass Tracker. They had 35hp motors then. The guy in the Bass Tracker hit a wave and popped his kill switch directly in front of the HydraSports that was nose up in the sky. No way to see in front. As the HydraSports bow came down, it hit the Bass Tracker directly in the engine cowling! This happened right in front of the tourney directors!! The HydraSports busted the engine cowling and wiped the stern light off the transom of the Bass Tracker.
Take- off was halted until it was certain all involved were OK. They were, just shook up. It could have been much worse.
Those idiots running without lights today would have been sitting ducks if one of them had popped a kill switch with all those boats breathing down their necks and no lights to warn them.
I have zero sympathy for idiots who choose to kill themselves acting stupid. Those who kill others while acting stupid should pay dearly for the rest of their days!
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Lake Barkley Wednesday.
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