03-27-2024, 06:51 PM
When I lived in Ariaona there were several lakes that experimented with different "power squadron" management plans. One lake had a limit on horsepower motors during the week...to give some folks a bit of a break. Others tried the "one way" rule for all boats going around the lake. Still others had sections of the lake buoyed off against wake throwing watercraft.
On one such lake I was fishing (from my float tube) an outside point one morning, when the only powercraft on the water...with water skiers...insisted on roaring by me at full speed only a few yards away. And then to add insult to injury the water skier dumped right near me and the whole boatload of yahoos was within easy casting distance...loud music and all. When I "politely" voiced my displeasure with their rudeness and unsportsmanlike conduct one of the guys yelled "Why don't you fish back inside the buoy line?" (clearly not a fisherman) I replied "Why don't you go water ski on the freeway?" Needless to say, I accomplished nothing and after a couple more "drive-bys" I packed up and headed home.
On one such lake I was fishing (from my float tube) an outside point one morning, when the only powercraft on the water...with water skiers...insisted on roaring by me at full speed only a few yards away. And then to add insult to injury the water skier dumped right near me and the whole boatload of yahoos was within easy casting distance...loud music and all. When I "politely" voiced my displeasure with their rudeness and unsportsmanlike conduct one of the guys yelled "Why don't you fish back inside the buoy line?" (clearly not a fisherman) I replied "Why don't you go water ski on the freeway?" Needless to say, I accomplished nothing and after a couple more "drive-bys" I packed up and headed home.