spuds704
Well-known member
Got out around 7 am Thursday and put in at Raccoon Mt. and headed up river for a little fishing and a long ride. I went all the way up to the Chickamauga tail waters, mostly because I've never made that run and thought it would be something different. Fished several spots along the way and caught around fifteen fish, mostly in the 2 lb. range with my best weighing 3 1/4 that I got on a shaky head at the mouth of Lookout Creek. Went back down and fished a few more spots but the current had dropped off and so had the bite. Hardly any current that morning but it picked up around 2 or so and then slowed again after a couple of hours. By the time I got back to the ramp it was after 5 and there was a lot of boats putting in and I thought it was a little tourney that someone had got together. Turns out it was the dogfight from Sullivan's that was putting in there because their working on the ramp at Sullivan's. So I eased down below the ramp to wait for them because I didn't want to slow them down and I was going to watch them blast off, and boy did I see that. There were boats out in the channel, some 30 or so yards down from the ramp and one about 10 ft. from the end of the dock. When the last boat was in the water I started to move up to tie up to the dock and a guy in the last boat in stood up and said something about the time and then yelled GO! The boat nearest the dock was new looking, dark blue with maybe a grey stripe, no markings and no registration numbers on it, maybe a Bullitt, very nice rig with a large motor. He's 20 yards in front of me and maybe 10 ft. off to the left and he floored it. When he went by the bow wake threw me to the right and then my boat fell off into the trough he had just plowed in the water and my boat was almost vertical on its left side. If I hadn't had a death grip on the wheel, I'd probably have gone over. It took on 10 or 12 gallons of water and I thought it was going under for a second, but then it fell back over on her bottom. I'm still hanging on to the wheel with my butt in the floor and my tackle bags are sloshing around in 4 or 5 inches of water. I'm soaking wet, ribs on my right side hurt from whacking the gear selector and my right shoulder is killing me and I am beyond mad. Lots of evil thoughts went through my mind, get the hand cannon out of the hidie hole and go find him and blow big holes in his boat and motor, just destroy his high dollar rig with him standing in it. But if he's the kind of person to do what he did, then he would probably run off at the mouth and as pissed as I was, I'd put a hole through that turd he's using for a head. Then it started to rain, with the sun shining and raindrops as big as a quarter, and I decided not to go to prison, so I went home. I have a lot of friends who fish tourneys, I used too, it's fun, and I don't mind these guys having fun. But what they did is against the law and that kind of stuff will get people hurt or dead. I think some of you may know some of those guys and can get word to them. All ramps are no wake zones, whether it's marked or not. It would have taken only a few minutes to move into the channel to have the take off. Is getting to the hot spot first worth tearing up somebody's property or injuring someone? Just because you're in a tx doesn't mean it's ok be an idiot.
