Big M area, August 12

[Bill Babler]

1 hour ago, Quillback said:

I hate no wake zones, but they ought to make that channel, from bank to bank and two hundred yards in either direction, a no wake zone.   Having those wakes roll in on a boat launch is downright dangerous.

I’m with you, I just can’t stand more regulation, but these people just have ZERO common sense and care about no one but themselves.

Needs to be a no wake zone from the bridge to the corner, about 300 yards.  Why in the world they have chosen that small busy stretch to plow huge wakes, boggles the imagination. 

[fshndoug]

they need to be outlawed period

[fishinwrench]

6 hours ago, fshndoug said:

they need to be outlawed period

That'll never happen. 

You can, however, help their propshaft seals to find 50' sections of braided line.....by being just as careless with your old line as they are with their wakes. 

  A few outdrive overhauls will show you how much spending money those high-rollers really have.  

[Champ188]

16 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

... these people just have ZERO common sense and care about no one but themselves.

Bingo ... and we are way past the point of improving either of those. We don't teach common sense or courtesy in the home anymore. 

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

2 hours ago, Champ188 said:

Bingo ... and we are way past the point of improving either of those. We don't teach common sense or courtesy in the home anymore. 

Many still do, but as always the few ruin it for the many.   

[Terrierman]

4 hours ago, Champ188 said:

Bingo ... and we are way past the point of improving either of those. We don't teach common sense or courtesy in the home anymore. 

Speaking strictly for yourself here, right?

[Phil Lilley]

10 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

That'll never happen. 

You can, however, help their propshaft seals to find 50' sections of braided line.....by being just as careless with your old line as they are with their wakes. 

  A few outdrive overhauls will show you how much spending money those high-rollers really have.  

But I find all kinds of line around our rental props… are you talking about “smart braid”?  😂

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, Phil Lilley said:

But I find all kinds of line around our rental props… are you talking about “smart braid”?  😂

Anything that floats is more likely to get picked up. (Mono, Braid).  Braid floats like a cork and cuts seals like a hacksaw blade.

There's usually some line around nearly every propshaft that comes in here. 

 I've been doing this long enough to recognize a pattern.....Boats that are trailered will often have bits of line but usually it isn't under the seal.   Boats that are docked will more often have huge balls of line, and more times than not it has sucked up into the seals.   The reason is because docked boats get run in REVERSE more.     Trolling motors always have line behind the prop....but it never cuts the seal.  Why?  No Reverse!  

The changing direction of the propshaft is what sucks the line into the seals.   The average trailered boat (bass boats) only see reverse at the boat ramp 2 short times per day.    Docked boats, especially ski boats/wake boats, get put into reverse alot more, and that causes a backlash of any line that is wrapped around the shaft, and eventually it gets under the seals. 

 

There is SO MUCH line in this lake that I don't feel comfortable diving into it anymore.   Diving in and getting tangled up in line that is connected to a brushpile would really suck.  

[Champ188]

On 8/14/2022 at 11:33 AM, Terrierman said:

Speaking strictly for yourself here, right?

Huh?

[Terrierman]

5 hours ago, Champ188 said:

Huh?

When you say we don't teach common sense or courtesy in the home anymore, you can't be generalizing can you?  Thus, you must be speaking strictly for yourself.  And if you're not, I take exception.