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Location: Mayer, MN | Nice fish Herb_b! Not so sure about the hat though.  |
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Location: Mayer, MN | Slow rollin, you ask why the behavior?
I chalk it up to ignorance, ego, money or ineptitude.
Don't let it get to you, you have just as much right to be out there. If you leave the lake, they WIN!
Go out there on a Saturday in the fall after the bird and deer seasons have started, you would think you're up north. That's always my favorite time.
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Location: Mt. Zion, IL | lots of luck, you bring up a good point with the ignorance. about 8 years ago I was sort of "bored" with bass fishing and picked up a few musky lures at the local tackle shop where I'm at in central IL. I had some sort of soft swimbait that was made locally sort of like a bulldawg and I was anchored on this point. You can't see on either side of this point but to the east there is a no wake zone, and the west is blocked by very very steep banks. I heard this jet ski doing donuts around the corner and things got loud as he was getting close. He did not see me on the point and came within about 35-50 ft of hitting the boat. He was flying around the corner as I had just let the bait sail. He caught the line mid chest and ended up getting ripped off of his jet ski. He came over and apologized and said he was way out of line. I was mad, but what are you supposed to do? I wanted to jerk and set the hook but that's not "right". I just held on to my new rod/reel for dear life. That is the best testament of strength I think there can be for Cortland Spectron haha.
There will be idiots everywhere. Whether they own pleasure boats or fishing boats, some people just don't care, or don't have any common sense. If you throw a marker buoy on my home lake, be prepared to be fished off of your spot and have about 20 onlookers. I have since painted all my marker buoys black so that they do not stick out from across the lake. |
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| lots of luck - 3/3/2009 11:02 PM
I chalk it up to ignorance, ego, money or ineptitude.
yeah, its too bad and sad somone would ever treat someone indifferently because these types of things....or to think that is O.k to do because of those reasons!!
Edited by Slow Rollin 3/4/2009 8:18 AM
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Location: MN | I almost lost a passenger out of the boat after hitting one of those Minnetonka chops. Those wakes come out of nowhere and it's tough to see them until you're right on them; unreal. The worst is all the guys running half plane. In some of the major waterways, it's impossible to safely get on plane and run. |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | My experience on Minnetonka has led me to believe that there simply are a lot of jerks and dense people out there and they come in all sizes of boats. Yeah, those big boats can be trouble especially when they "buzz" you. But there are also a lot of inconsiderate fishermen too who do things they should not.
I had a big boat "buzz" me a few years ago on the east side of the main lake. I had to put the trolling motor on max thrust and get out of the way just so I didn't get hit and the guy actually flipped me off as he drove buy. Shortly after that, we decided to head over to Lord Fletchers and get a burger. When we got there, I noticed the boat that had just buzzed us on the dock and there was the guy who had flipped me off bragging loudly about how he had just about swamped a fishing boat. I walked right up to him and said "That was my boat". The guy just turned white and shut up. I gave the guy a disgusted look and walked away. But gosh did I enjoy that moment. 
I suggest that you don't let the jerks and dense people out there ruin your time on the water. I have found that while one has to deal with them, its best to just try have fun and focus on the lake and fishing. That is all one can really control anyway. Jerks are everywhere - on the roads, at shopping malls, even the Twins games. Its hard to get away from them and even at home there is that mirror thing.....
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Location: Mayer, MN | Herb_b you summed it up well.
My goal is to have a muskiefirst something or another this season so that maybe a few of us will see each other and give a friendly wave or even an on the water chat session.
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| I think everyone should stop fishing Tonka in protest. |
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| are some of you guys serious about restricting boat size????
some of the richest most powerful people in the state live on tonka
your gonna tell the Mcmillans they cant have the boat they want if they choose one.
youd have a better chance of low income public housing getting built in Wayzata
Edited by happy hooker 3/6/2009 10:23 AM
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| I am pretty sure that we were just messing around with some wishfull thinking about the boat size restriction, I mean we are not all morons, no one is putting together the coalition as far as I can tell. People just get a bit defensive when we are told about the possibility of being charged to launch on our public resource. Did you think they were serious? hahaha, just messing buddy |
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| happy hooker - 3/6/2009 10:20 AM
are some of you guys serious about restricting boat size????
some of the richest most powerful people in the state live on tonka
your gonna tell the Mcmillans they cant have the boat they want if they choose
boat size aside, but in any circustance can you help me understand,what makes someone better, more powerful, more rights, than anyone else that has less money? or why wouldn't the same rules and regs apply to a Mcmillan that apply to everyone else?
Edited by Slow Rollin 3/6/2009 11:17 AM
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| slow roll
the rules would apply
but the tonka crowd would have so much money to throw at legal/political power it would never get to be a rule.
we have rules that work against them too,,city lakes have rules that allow electric motor only, |
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