Good Friday wasn't bad

[ColdWaterFshr]

You're right, you can't tell the story from the video.  It just didn't look like the boat that was heading upstream was moving very fast at all, and to say they should've been on the right, given their relatively much much slower speed, seems ridiculous.  

 

[Smalliebigs]

 

 

You're right, you can't tell the story from the video.  It just didn't look like the boat that was heading upstream was moving very fast at all, and to say they should've been on the right, given their relatively much much slower speed, seems ridiculous.  

 

It's no biggie....if you hear a boat coming down stream on a river and you paddle upstream  on the left go for it hahahahahahaha 

[ColdWaterFshr]

 

 

Funnier still . . . . 2 separate RiverPro dorks approaching each other at 48 mph in opposite directions at that very bend in the river, each totally deaf to the others approach,  closing distance, and check my math here . . . 96 mph!  Awesome.  

[Chief Grey Bear]

 

I'll be the first to say that I don't know as much about boat etiquette or who has the "right of way" on the water ....but hey I'm no expert.

Don't need to be. 

Common sense and common courtesy is all that is needed. Some have it. Some don't.

[ness]

 

You're right, you can't tell the story from the video.  It just didn't look like the boat that was heading upstream was moving very fast at all, and to say they should've been on the right, given their relatively much much slower speed, seems ridiculous.  

 

But they were dorks. You got that part, right?

[Mitch f]

 

But they were dorks. You got that part, right?

You see Ness, Dorks, is no longer a derogatory term, it's actually a compliment......like stupid good???

get with it, man!?

[Smallieguy87]

 

Don't need to be. 

Common sense and common courtesy is all that is needed. Some have it. Some don't.

Chief why not quote the entire post instead of cherry picking infromation? I don't own a boat. I can count on my hands the number of times I've been on a jet boat on any river. I'm a wade fishermen who occasionally gets to fish from a kayak. I avoid boats as much as possible. The whole thought of the being on the outside of that bend was for maximum visibility for anything coming toward them. Had nothing to do with the relative speed of either boat or which one was a riverpro and which one wasn't. If you watch the video carefully you'll see the guy or gal wave at them. In the end no one was hurt and every one got to fish. There's no need to have personal animosity turn a fishing report into something else. 

[Chief Grey Bear]

Oh boy. 

[Haris122]

Going through the online boater safety course right now, but still not sure how this relates to that. It seems to me like maybe those guys had been fishing on that side behind the bend, and maybe just got going. So that being said, what are you supposed to do if you want to fish that section behind the bend without getting run over by another boat, aside from hope someone isn't hauling butt right at you from the other side? Hug as close as you can to the shore on that side?

[Al Agnew]

Common sense and etiquette indeed says pass on the right. But blind bends are one of my real fears when running mine, and it only goes 20 mph or less. Jetboats aren't all that nimble, and runnable channels are often pretty narrow in blind bends. There's really no avoiding that kind of danger except to be very alert when you don't have plenty of visibility of what's ahead, and probably to slow down as much as you can and still be on plane is a good idea.