Wildcat boat ramp idiot 6/12

[netboy]

Interesting story. I launched at Wildcat ramp this morning and had a decent day of fishing. They were running 7 units which is a pretty good flow.

So, when I come back to the ramp at Wildcat, I beach my boat on the downstream side of the ramp and there was a Jeep with a Supreme boat submerged on the downstream side of the ramp. Okay no problem, he is probably pulling out. Then I look and nobody in the Jeep or anywhere around. If you know the Wildcat ramp, the downstream side is pretty calm on 7 units and the upstream side is a challenge. Well, I walk to my truck and there is a guy sitting on the picnic table under the trees. So, I ask him if he knows what is going on with the truck blocking the ramp. He says, that's my truck and I am waiting for my friends to come. I say, can you please launch your boat and pull it over the beach like everybody does or simply pull it out until your friends show up? He says he doesn't want to do that and his friends have "walking problems". So I say how in the hell are they going to climb up into your boat sitting on the trailer??? 

Oh well it went very downhill from there and he got a very "color full" (expletives deleted) piece of my mind. 

Bottom line.. our boat ramps are not parking lots or fishing piers, launch your boat and move on.

Rant over.

[snagged in outlet 3]

I know that ramp and I feel your frustration.   A couple weeks ago at the Branson ramp a guy is blocking the whole entrance to the parking area and my wife says “They’re putting on sunscreen for gosh sake”.   A guy was waiting to get out of the parking area with his rig and two of us waiting to get in and to the ramp.   I wheeled around and backed through a parking spot and got to the ramp.   They gave us the ole stink eye and the other guy waiting did the same thing.  We took our time launching and me and the other guy even had a nice chat while the sun boys waited for us😁

[jdmidwest]

Firearms get pretty tempting in situations like that.  Takes a lot of restraint. 

The world is getting dumber.

[Nick Adams]

28 minutes ago, jdmidwest said:

Firearms get pretty tempting in situations like that.  Takes a lot of restraint. 

The world is getting dumber.

If you're tempted to shoot someone over a boat ramp incident, then world really is getting dumber. 

[Lvn2Fish]

I was writing the same post haha ! Let’s not shoot people over something this trivial ya loose cannon ….Jesus ! 

[rps]

NEVER underestimate the stupidity of our fellow boaters.

[snagged in outlet 3]

Pull up to get your boat out and it’s about a 100 degrees.   A guy backs down the ramp to put his boat in.   Then he gets out and opens the hood takes the battery out of his truck, putting it in his boat, starts the boat, removes the battery from the boat, takes it back to his truck, reinstalls it back in the truck, gets back in the truck backs the boat into the water, gets back in the boat and backs off the trailer, then goes and parks the trailer.

[DADAKOTA]

Apparently common courtesy has gone the way of reasonably priced gasoline.

[fshndoug]

reminds me of the sailboats and yakers at Lake Jacomo Dadakota

[DADAKOTA]

Dealt with plenty of folks out there as well.  The rental boat captains may be the worst.