RUN OVER WHILE FISHING

[Guest]

I JUST LOOKED AT A FISHING REPORT FROM WATTS BAR LAKE, WHERE THE GUY HAD REAL BAD TIME WITH BOATS RUNNING TO CLOSE.I THINK FISHERMAN SHOULD HAVE SOME RIGHTS , LIKE REASONABLE DISTANCE TO CAST AND ENJOY THEIR SPORT AS OTHERS DO ON OUR LAKES. JET SKI LAWS STATE THEY MUST STAY 100 FT. FROM EVERY THING, LIKE DOCKS , THE BANK, OR ANY TYPE OF FIXED OBJECT, ONE LAW EVEN STATES IF YOU PUT UP A RED FLAG WHILE FISHING, THEY MUST STAY 100 FT. FROM YOUR BOAT. I TALKED TO MANY FISHERMAN THAT ARE EVEN RUN OVER BY OTHER BASS BOATS, MAYBE WE NEED A LAW like if FISHING ROD IS IN USE WE GET 100 FT OF PROTECTION SPACE. HUGE BOATS PARK IN MARINAS PROTECTED BY NO WAKE ZONES , THEN CAN LEAVE THAT AREA AND WASH SMALLER BOATS UP ON THE BANK WITH THEIR WAKE. ITS EVERYONES LAKE TO USE AND WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO ENJOY OUR SPORT AS WELL. THIS WOULD BE A GOOD TOPIC OF DISCUSSION AT A TWRA PUBLIC MEETING. I GET TO FISH ANYTIME I CHOOSE, BUT IF I COULD ONLY FISH ON WEEKENDS I PROBABLY WOULD BE LIKE THIS GUY ,SELLING MY BOAT TO. ANY IDEAS. MAYBE SOMEONE AS THE ANSWER. LAWS MIGHT HELP ,BUT THEY ONLY WORK WHEN ENFORCED.

 

[digitalcb]

If anything is done we'll have to do it ourselves. I'd say the only solution is to catch blatant offenders on video sufficient to identify the vessel and the violation and turn it over for prosecution. We have sufficient media connections to make sure that all prosecutions get widely reported with You Tube links to the actual recording.

You can't make them behave but you can make them wish they had!

 

[Guest]

This past Monday (labor day) the worse ones about getting too close while running wide open were the bass boat guys. Next were the cruisers and actually the most courteous of all as far as getting close to Cathooker and I were the PWC's.

 

[foodsaver]

i had a guy blow by me on a jet ski on monday and then he came back to watch me fight a fish. He thought it was huge (it was a 15lber) and then took off while I was still fighting it. I was awfully irritated by that I mean its one thing to go by once but twice come on!