Thread: There Should Be A Law....

Originally Posted by SEA DANCER

I usually launch my boat and just tie it to the dock over the ramp. Since I'm a one man operation it's usually faster for me to just tie it there instead of trying to move it to one side of the dock off the ramp. But before I do this I always tell the guy behind me in line so he knows what I'm doing and isn't calling me a butthead. Pull the truck and jog back to the boat to get out of the way in less than 5 minutes

I do the same thing when I am alone Hockey86. I move my boat to the very end of the ramp dock and that leaves room for most boats to be launched in the same ramp. My problem is taking out when someone has launched and is sitting on the ramp dock trying to untangle their ski rope.

Or waiting om Mama, who's struggling with the ice chest!

There is only 2 things you can do. Find a lake that doesn't allow pleasure or fish at night.

One of the WORST things I have ever seen was actually on Tillery, we were in Swift Island cove fishing a little, and a guy comes strolling in pretty slow, gets right in line with us, throws his kid (Maybe 8-9) off the boat with a life jacket on, the kid swims around for a second, then gets back in the boat, and begs to be thrown in again. The guy tells him ok this is the last time, throws him in, the little boy didn't want to get out, so the dad acts like he is driving away in the boat, (Danger #1) kid starts screaming and swims towards the boat. Gets almost there and decides he wants to swim away from the boat, meanwhile there is a boat cruising the cove to hit the lake about 20mph, and doesn't know the kid is in the water. Kid was right in the path of the boat, could have ended very badly, very poor judgement indeed. If you are going to swim, don't do it in a cove with a boat ramp and a few curves in it. Also I believe they should inforce a 30mph speed limit on all lakes. I see no need to go any faster than that. I always say those bass fishermen will lose their sponsorship if they don't get back to the ramp at exactly the weigh in time.

Unfortunately there seem to be no shortage of thoughtless people in the would now days.I always like to think the vast majority are caring,considerate,ethical folks.
The other 1 to2 percent make you wonder what went wrong.

I cannot believe I did it. I bought my son one of those jet skis I have been cussing for years while trying to fish. I have however made it very clear on many occasions my expectations of him and how he respects others especially fishing. He knows slow or idle speed in coves and slow down passing guys fishing. I told him main lake is for fun, but if you go in a cove and someone is trying to fish, leave. He knows he had better treat all fishermen as if dad was on their boat.

If everyone took the time to do that, things would be so much smoother. He'll have you riding it in no time. They are fun and we used to encounter a few while out in the ocean striper fishing. They had them all decked out for fishing. Actually a heck of plan since you can launch from the beach.

Worst I've had happen is when I was out trolling for strippers on Jordan years back. Dummy pulling a skier went right behind my boat and crossed one of my lines. Bucktail lure hooked one of the foot straps on the ski and got all wrapped up around the ski. If that didn't piss me off just a little, dummy driving the boat acted like it was MY fault. That really pissed me off but I was glad it didn't hook the kid.

This time of year, I do my trolling early morning, and my crappie fishing at night. If i'm out there during the day on a weekend its because the gf wants to ride around and get sun

I was trolling Shad Raps on Jordan with a buddy of mine, when a dumb@$$ driving a pleasure boat full of people was aiming to cross right behind our prop wash. We both waved our arms & fishing rods to try to get them to veer off, but the fool ran across both lines. He spooled both reels, flossed his motor, and we lost the only two crankbaits that were working that day. We chased them down to the Ebeneezer boat ramp and asked what they thought they were doing. Apparently, they thought all our waving was because we must have thought they were going to run into us...but they obviously weren't, so they ignored us.

Jim