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 ;)