Wisconsin and Vermont are trying to tackle some of the problems wake boats cause

[RockyRaab2]

It is indeed a safety issue. Many times I have been standing on the bow of my bass boat, casting toward shore when suddenly pitched violently around by huge but silent waves from a wake boat. It does not take much imagination to see being thrown overboard, perhaps incapacitated. Worse, the offending wake boat would be long gone by then - or would be deliberately oblivious.