I'm definitely in favor !

[Terrierman]

5 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

How come you are such a hep cat on lame stuff anyway?    Just askin....

 

 

WTH kinda question was that anyway?   

 

I'm a hep cat on all kinds of stuff.

And that was the kinda question to jag your wire man.

[GSPHUNTER]

10 hours ago, tjm said:

OK, I believe that and the guy has filed a bill, that is his something. If it never gets out of committee, he can always say he tried.

Best of luck with this. Really is too bad though that they chose to discriminate, all wakes should be treated equally,  all shore line should be treated equally.

There is nothing equal in terms of wakess.  A wake from a 50' sea ray plowing water, a wake from a ballast filled, wedge enhanced wake board boat spinning circles in a cove for four hours, and a wake from a bass boat running at any speed are all different but I would agree that two are equally damaging.  All three are different wakes, but you pick which one you want crashing into your dock or boat.

It's literally insane the ignorance of boaters on the lake.  My dad has always said, he would love to take his 28' Formula inside the wave breaks of every marina on the lake and plow as much water as it could and see the response he'd get from the idiots that keep their boats at a no wake marina, but see nothing wrong with throwing a 4 foot wall of water 60 yards from other peoples docks.

Our family place is in Racoon Hollow, which many guys on here know has zero docks along the camp Sabre side of the cove.  Growing up we tubed, we would ski, wakeboard, knee board, air chair, you name it we did it.  We would always run down the far bank with no docks on it.  Turn around and head straight back down the bank with no docks on it.

Our no wake buoy was lost in one of the recent floods down there and the dock sits on one of the points in the cove, so it's in a prime location to get buzzed.  Last summer I was down and had my Ranger tied up in our slip, and I was messing with rods or something in the boat when a wake board boat started their laps.  Taking water over the bow while he made passes 20-30 yards of the end of the dock got old quick, so I pulled the boat out to about where our buoy would sit and waited for him to come by again.  I was watching him as he made his turn, and he was watching his wakeboarder the entire time!  I had to throw the boat in reverse to get out of his way.  I lost it!  He was at the very least decent enough to come back by the dock and apologize, and even listened to my speech about running the far bank in that cove, which he proceeded to do. 

My only concern would be the unintended consequences of the law.  Would it put even more pressure and wave action in coves that either can't get the support of the other lake shore owners, or fall just outside of the 800' rule?  Take 30% more coves away from wakeboard boats and now all of a sudden there that many more in unrestricted coves.

[Bushbeater]

Everybody just chill and e mail your state rep. It sure can't hurt to put a bug in their ear.

[Old plug]

On January 16, 2018 at 12:05 PM, moguy1973 said:

Does the main channel of the Gravois Arm neck down to 800' at any point?  That's not very far, just over an 1/8th of a mile (.15mi).  Seems like the skinniest part is .20mi

I sure hope so. I live on that neck it's called cedar point. 

[Old plug]

22 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

I came in hot to Stoker's cove years ago, cut the throttle just inside the bouys, and a crazy old man fired a .22 round 3' over my bow.   Pretty extreme, and I was tempted to visit his place on land and kick his old butt at the time, but I'll admit that I have never blown through no-wake bouys since.   

Good decision Wrench about that visit. He might have blew a big big hole in you with his 12 ga shotgun.

[Old plug]

4 hours ago, Bushbeater said:

Everybody just chill and e mail your state rep. It sure can't hurt to put a bug in their ear.

I will say this again After years of of being involved with service between veterans and politician. also having done a bit of lobbing with a organization your state rep cannot be trusted to get anything for you that the laed dog of his party does not want.  Someone mentioned earlier about if the  something does not pass your rep can say well I tried. LEt me tell you you have no idea how much that situation is done deliberately. Even on a National level. YO see it gives the impression to the voters back home the rep is fighting for them when really he does not want that and the comittee know so. JUst one of the games.

[evilcatfish]

Was reading through this thread today then just saw this:

 

http://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/2018/01/17/fisherman-who-jumped-into-river-to-avoid-oncoming-motorboat-sues-helmsman.html

 

Could've easily been a scene from LOZ.  I'm all for this new legislation

[Basfis]

21 hours ago, GSPHUNTER said:

There is nothing equal in terms of wakess.  A wake from a 50' sea ray plowing water, a wake from a ballast filled, wedge enhanced wake board boat spinning circles in a cove for four hours, and a wake from a bass boat running at any speed are all different but I would agree that two are equally damaging.  All three are different wakes, but you pick which one you want crashing into your dock or boat.

It's literally insane the ignorance of boaters on the lake.  My dad has always said, he would love to take his 28' Formula inside the wave breaks of every marina on the lake and plow as much water as it could and see the response he'd get from the idiots that keep their boats at a no wake marina, but see nothing wrong with throwing a 4 foot wall of water 60 yards from other peoples docks.

Our family place is in Racoon Hollow, which many guys on here know has zero docks along the camp Sabre side of the cove.  Growing up we tubed, we would ski, wakeboard, knee board, air chair, you name it we did it.  We would always run down the far bank with no docks on it.  Turn around and head straight back down the bank with no docks on it.

Our no wake buoy was lost in one of the recent floods down there and the dock sits on one of the points in the cove, so it's in a prime location to get buzzed.  Last summer I was down and had my Ranger tied up in our slip, and I was messing with rods or something in the boat when a wake board boat started their laps.  Taking water over the bow while he made passes 20-30 yards of the end of the dock got old quick, so I pulled the boat out to about where our buoy would sit and waited for him to come by again.  I was watching him as he made his turn, and he was watching his wakeboarder the entire time!  I had to throw the boat in reverse to get out of his way.  I lost it!  He was at the very least decent enough to come back by the dock and apologize, and even listened to my speech about running the far bank in that cove, which he proceeded to do. 

My only concern would be the unintended consequences of the law.  Would it put even more pressure and wave action in coves that either can't get the support of the other lake shore owners, or fall just outside of the 800' rule?  Take 30% more coves away from wakeboard boats and now all of a sudden there that many more in unrestricted coves.

Sounds like you were parked where I’d like to throw a stickbait with softer water.  Never fished that creek in the winter with a good graph to figure out why they collected there. Too bad the buoy is gone, that was my marker!

[Larry Eby]

Fine should be 4X the proposed amount.

[DADAKOTA]

Funny how the wake boats and large cruisers don't do their maneuvers off their own docks.  They always go away from their place.  Bet they get real excited when their own dock is bouncing and moving around as wakes crash into it.  Way too many inconsiderate folks out there in addition to all those that can't responsibly operate a boat.