In Case You Were Wondering, It Is Official

[powerdive]

The boat running wide open well after dark with no lights and the every 15 minute wakings from passing pleasure boats was bad enough, but for me the most troubling part of the night was the moron towing the kids on the tube just prior to sunset. The driver of the boat cut us off as he swung the tube with two kids (one with no life jacket) directly in our path, forcing us to hard stop from a full plane. Then the driver proceeded to pull the kids over a stump filled flat in maybe 2-3' of water, only to be topped by swinging the kids close enough to the high spot protruding above water that they could have used it as a jump ramp. Said high spot was also covered in stumps. None of the "adults" in the tow boat were looking back serving as spotter either. Typical day in the Summer on Beaver or TR, it seems. I am looking forward to Fall.

Been there. But c'mon, it's a great way to review your entire life in just a few short seconds.

[Feathers and Fins]

Mike. I was driving it wasn't a life review it was ANGER that some $#@%$^ parent would risk there kids life for no reason I was very upset.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Mike. I was driving it wasn't a life review it was ANGER that some $#@%$^ parent would risk there kids life for no reason I was very upset.

I hear that. Living on hindsight can be dangerous.

[JohnF52]

Ary you guys getting any hull numbers to turn over to LE?

[Hazbin]

I fished down lake of Big M today. I was fishing drop-offs where flats of 28 to 30 feet fell into channels. This meant I was a long way from the bank. It also meant I was an obstruction for the many, many large boats designed to displace large wakes. I had water come in my transom, I fell down twice, and I am thankful I do not easily succumb to motion sickness.

I also had a person in a Phoenix boat with dual doofus extending shallows anchors stop and take my break line buoy. I had to chase him down the lake to get it back. He was nice once I caught him, but who picks up a marker buoy that does not belong to them?

Big M to Campbell Point is ugly on weekends.

Emerald Beach holds many spotted bass. I caught 10 or 12 with two solid keepers. I had one walleye bite and my line parted before I saw the fish. It felt a solid keeper, but not a monster.

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I think I know who that was in that $70,000. Phoenix, a man and his son. He owns a lot of those large multi unit apartments and a large insurance agency in Springfield. The only thing I can figure, he must have thought someone had left it and was afraid of it getting in a prop.

[Champ188]

Or he was mistakenly thinking "free marker buoy."

[basscat123]

Or he was mistakenly thinking "free marker buoy."

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[Hazbin]

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Now you know how he obtain all real estate!

[Quillback]

I can't believe somebody would pick up a marker buoy.

[Feathers and Fins]

I can't believe somebody would pick up a marker buoy.

I gave him a solution for it,