People Are Going To Get Hurt On Tablerock........

[Old plug]

Blue catfish $5 a gallon gas DOES NOT mean a thing to people who can afford those big boats. It really hurts the little guy who has bought himself a 150- 250 HP motor on hos bass boat.

[Old plug]

6 figure you say Bill. Some are into 7 figures.

You might as well all accept it. Buy the time TR gets to be Age of LOZ your going to have the same problems minus bars on the water MAYBE. The other thing is over population. They got to go somewhere to let off the steam. After all they are the cool people were all suppose to keep our place.

[skeeter]

You just spent $135,000.00 for an Xboat Extreme and you think your going to be worried about gas at 5 bucks? When pigs fly. Guys lots and lots of these people are 6 figure a year folks anymore and gas prices are not going to hamper their summer lake fun. It is just getting horrible and really I have no answer

Good Luck

What happened to the idea that these dang Wakeboard Boats that can pump 1800 lbs. of ballast-water into them were going to be banned ? Besides swamping smaller boats they provide a very viable transport system for invasive species.

And the COE desperately needs to enact and enforce a length limit on TR, like NOW.....instead of worrying about shoreline vegetation and issuing more and more permits for the proliferation of empty Docks so they can sit vacant while the dock-speculators try to cash in on them . Anyone else see the 75 ft. long + houseboat that was parked on the Lake side of Harter House's lot last week ? Next it will be Cabin Cruisers and offshore racing Cigarette boats that big, just like what happened at LOZ.

[fishinwrench]

How many water patrol boats do you have cruising TR?

If things are getting dangerous down there then maybe you need more!

[Old plug]

You can about forget all that too Skeeter. The powers that be are political and fueled buy money. It is the same with everything in society. I think it could be called the American way pretty acutately.

[GNSfishing]

How many water patrol boats do you have cruising TR?

If things are getting dangerous down there then maybe you need more!

That is part of the problem, not enough water patrol on the water.

I put in at cape Fair 3 to 4 times a week to fish and that water patrol is parked in their stall 95% to 99% of the time. I believe that since the water patrol and high patrol became one that there has been more concentration on the high ways than the lakes. We all see violations every time we are on the lake and without enforcement present on the lakes people just do what they want. I see light violations on the lake just about every time I'm out in the evening. It used to be that I could go to the back end of Piney creek and fish in peace. But not anymore, last evening there was a boat up by the wilderness buoys pulled a tube with kids out of there like it was clear water regardless to the underwater trees in that part of Piney.

[Riverwhy]

The folks on the wake boards and the pwc are probably by in large great folks who simply enjoy a different use of the lake. However, the use of the wake boats in particuloar is more than a nuisance. I had my first experience with a wake boat while trying to fish out of a 17 foot bass tracker in a creek arm off Norfork a couple of weeks ago. I was totally shocked by the size of the wake. I gave up fishing and simply tried to keep the boat from being swamped.

[Wayne SW/MO]

TR is no longer the super clear lake that was hard to get to in the 60's and it hasn't stopped changing. Some will fish around the problems and others will have to move on We're lucky in Missouri, we have lots of lakes.

[GNSfishing]

The folks on the wake boards and the pwc are probably by in large great folks who simply enjoy a different use of the lake. However, the use of the wake boats in particuloar is more than a nuisance. I had my first experience with a wake boat while trying to fish out of a 17 foot bass tracker in a creek arm off Norfork a couple of weeks ago. I was totally shocked by the size of the wake. I gave up fishing and simply tried to keep the boat from being swamped.

A couple of years ago I was up in the back of Little Indian at Baxter and if you have ever fished up there you will know that it is not very wide. One of those wake boats came up there with a person riding a wake/surf board. the wake it generated was tremendous, I have a 20 ft bass boat and the wake almost put us on the bank and rolled over the nose of my boat put so much water in my boat that the auto bilge pump turned on. What happened to the 100 ft rule, for the wake boats, jet skis, water skiers, tubers and joy riders it apparently does not exist. By the time you could get a water patrol to respond by calling them the culprits will be gone and giving the water patrol the boat numbers does as much good as telling my dog. I really think if the rule/law about you being responsible for property damage and/or injury to from your wake and make it stick would go a long way in curbing a lot of these wake boats and large cruisers from creating these large rolling wakes..... Just a wishing........

[GREENTRITON]

Any chance we all could just get along? I have a fish n ski, my daughter has a jetski. I have spent the last 35 years on the rock, have seen a lot of change.In the old days dad took me fishing in the morning, then when it got hot we broke out the water skis and tubes. I can understand the big boat problem with the wakes, does cause a problem but I just roll with it. The lakes our more crowded, everybody has a right to be there.. I will be fishing on sat morning, rest of family will be down sat afternoon, glad to put the rods in the rodbox and pull out the skis and take the family skiing..