09-26-2005, 12:52 PM
[cool][#0000ff]I hate to admit it, but I have taken some cold early spring water over the tops of my waders a few times when I used to do more wading down there. What is really embarassing is when you are taking a new fishing buddy out and telling them to be careful and then you step off into a hole.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Your story of the boater reminds me of a similar episode on Lake Pleasant, down in Arizona. Same situation. I was tubing quite a ways from shore, fishing a hump that was almost exposed as the lake was dropping. The lake rangers had not yet put a buoy on it. Some wacko jacko in a tricked out bass boat came roaring across my casting zone at full throttle...as they love to do to float tubers. As in your story, he smacked into the highest rock pile on the hump and his boat went airborne...with the transom and motor still attached to the rock pile. Fortunately (for the boater) he launched free from the boat rather than slamming against the steering wheel. He sustained some pretty good damage but he lived.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Can't say the same for a couple of guys in Powell that we found after their bass boat hit an unmarked rock. They were both cut in half. We were fishing a tournament and they blasted off and got ahead of everybody else in their higher powered boat. The rest of us all came around a bend and found them. Kinda put a damper on the tournament.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Yep. It pays to know the contours whether you are wading, boating or tubing. And a little bit of caution can save some serious discomfort and embarassment...or worse.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Your story of the boater reminds me of a similar episode on Lake Pleasant, down in Arizona. Same situation. I was tubing quite a ways from shore, fishing a hump that was almost exposed as the lake was dropping. The lake rangers had not yet put a buoy on it. Some wacko jacko in a tricked out bass boat came roaring across my casting zone at full throttle...as they love to do to float tubers. As in your story, he smacked into the highest rock pile on the hump and his boat went airborne...with the transom and motor still attached to the rock pile. Fortunately (for the boater) he launched free from the boat rather than slamming against the steering wheel. He sustained some pretty good damage but he lived.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Can't say the same for a couple of guys in Powell that we found after their bass boat hit an unmarked rock. They were both cut in half. We were fishing a tournament and they blasted off and got ahead of everybody else in their higher powered boat. The rest of us all came around a bend and found them. Kinda put a damper on the tournament.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Yep. It pays to know the contours whether you are wading, boating or tubing. And a little bit of caution can save some serious discomfort and embarassment...or worse.[/#0000ff]
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