Is there a method or etiquette to marking submerged stumps and obstructions?

[scooper77515]

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We are out there almost every weekend. Any members make it out there, and recognize our boat, introduce yourselves!

It is a nice lake, kinda small, but secluded, considering how close it is to Houston. We enjoy it immensely!

 

[Blake0912]

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We are out there almost every weekend. Any members make it out there, and recognize our boat, introduce yourselves!

It is a nice lake, kinda small, but secluded, considering how close it is to Houston. We enjoy it immensely!

I was out there today, Mostly on the river side. It was super crowded and it seems like theres more and more people out there every time i go. Unfortunately there seems to be a lot of people who don't have great boat etiquette who love to blow by you going 60+, and need i mention the people on jet Skis they just make me nervous lol.

 

[DaNinja]

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I was out there today, Mostly on the river side. It was super crowded and it seems like theres more and more people out there every time i go. Unfortunately there seems to be a lot of people who don't have great boat etiquette who love to blow by you going 60+, and need i mention the people on jet Skis they just make me nervous lol.

Jet skis are a pain to watch out for sometimes. I don't mind being overtaken by someone doing triple-digits, though.
As long as they watch out for the milk jugs, though.

 

[Blake0912]

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Jet skis are a pain to watch out for sometimes. I don't mind being overtaken by someone doing triple-digits, though.
As long as they watch out for the milk jugs, though.

I don't mind being overtaken either, not like my 90 Johnson has a chance anyways lol. But i mean when they jump your wake 10ft behind your boat or cut you off. For instance today a yonger girl was hauling *** across the lake and did not even look to notice that she was about to be t-boned by me and another boat we both had to pull back to neutral to avoid a bad situation.

 

[MTboatguy]

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When I lived in WA and boated on the Columbia river, which at that time, had a lot of snags in the river, we used to keep a hammer and a small box of 16 penny galvanized nails and some white milk jugs with us and would attach them to the snags, on the Columbia at that time all of the gill netters used white milk jugs for markers on their nets, so the boats would avoid them so they would not get tied up in them.

Worked pretty good, and very few ran into the snags or the nets for that matter

 

[Tail_Gunner]

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Call your sheriffs dept and inform them....If they blow it off well take names and numbers Or your game warden..That type of stuff is serious and let the sheriff know your concerns and the potential for damage or bodliy harm

 

[Blue2Green]

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I don't mind being overtaken either, not like my 90 Johnson has a chance anyways lol. But i mean when they jump your wake 10ft behind your boat or cut you off. For instance today a yonger girl was hauling *** across the lake and did not even look to notice that she was about to be t-boned by me and another boat we both had to pull back to neutral to avoid a bad situation.

Ive been in that same situatuion too many times to count. I wish a boaters course were mandatory in Texas for adults.

 

[Blue2Green]

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As a kid on Stillhouse and Belton Lake near Fort Hood we used to tie jugs to the snags we found as well. We used thin poly rope and an orange painted strip for better visibility. Wish more people would mark hazzards as you are doing.

 

[Blake0912]

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Ive been in that same situatuion too many times to count. I wish a boaters course were mandatory in Texas for adults.

I agree with that 100%.

 

[mmwest]

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Hey Scooper', I'll defintely give you a shout next time I'm out there .I'm in a 21' Sea Ray w/tower.it looks bout them same as yours..appreciate the response.

 

[scooper77515]

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I tend to hang out by the dam or in that cove for wakeboarding. If the beach is crowded, the wife and I will anchor off out in the deep by the dam, and just dive off the boat. But usually we are hanging out and drinking beers at the beach just north of the cove.

I would LOVE for someone to show us how to get up the river to the restaurants at Kingwood. Every time we have tried, we ended up on a sandbar.

I know it can be done, cuz I see some big 22 footers come through there and I know they take on more water than I do, but we have never found the channel through. Even in the jet boat, we kept finding sandbars.

We like those restaurants on the water, and they would make a great dinner before heading home.

 

[mmwest]

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Everytime I go near the 1960 bridge I get a little spooked.I remember trying to go back farther and to the west side of the lake and hittin bottom most the way and just decided I'd better get back to where I know it's safe................never heard of anyone going all the way to Kingwood but I'd be game to try it if I was following someone who has done itI really messed my boat up at kemah last year so i'm pretty cautious right now.

 

[scooper77515]

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My cousin did it to Kingwood in his 22' Yamaha jet boat. He said you need to really hug the east side. I don't know how much hugging is required.

I also want to follow someone who has done it before, rather than do it myself.

Of course, later in the summer, after a good rain, and a couple of beers, I may venture that way with GPS on with trails enabled, and find my way, save the trail, and use it until I learn it by heart.

Is your avatar picture with the dog at Surfside?

 

[Woodnaut]

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There are a bunch of trees and logs that float down from the two branches of the San Jacinto river when heavy rains occur. These move periodically when storms roll in....

Yep, you nailed Lake Houston. Been there namy times, but my home waters are GALX. I'm always really careful and consider myself more on a river than a lake for the reason you've indicated. Many thanks, scoop. No bilge water in your boat, mate.

 

[mmwest]

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My cousin did it to Kingwood in his 22' Yamaha jet boat. He said you need to really hug the east side. I don't know how much hugging is required.

I also want to follow someone who has done it before, rather than do it myself.

Of course, later in the summer, after a good rain, and a couple of beers, I may venture that way with GPS on with trails enabled, and find my way, save the trail, and use it until I learn it by heart.

Is your avatar picture with the dog at Surfside?

that's my 10yr old golden retriever at west beach in galveston

 

[H20Rat]

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My cousin did it to Kingwood in his 22' Yamaha jet boat. He said you need to really hug the east side. I don't know how much hugging is required.

When a jetboat driver said they had to hug the side, it means they were cleaning grass stains off the hull when they got home. (been there, done that... )

I've run some little side creeks on my river that require ducking for branches, the side of the boat is brushing the weeds hanging over the bank. Of course, the 'channel' in some of those is a foot deep.

 

[scooper77515]

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HAHA!!!

I meant staying to the east 1/8th of the river, which at that point is maybe 1/4 mile across. But shallow.

My maps say around 3-6 feet deep in the "channel". but I have never found the channel and have tried to hug the west side, and go right up the middle. I have never gotten the guts to try the east side, and the wife is tired of me trying and getting stuck on a sandbar.

 

[scoutabout]

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I notice no one has yet suggested towing the obstacle to the shore although it sounds like some are either huge or jammed into the bottom somehow or there are just so many that you couldn't begin to clean up the waterway.

It would be kind of cool to organize a Clean Up day and get a bunch of boaters together to try to deal with a bunch of them.

It's pretty rare where I boat to find more than a couple big logs a season floating around. I did once waste a good hour towing a mostly submerged deadhead about half the length of a telephone pole down to my local marine police unit and lashed it to their dock.

It was real late in the season, though and no one was around. Not sure how they took to that once they found it but I knew if left to float in the middle of the channel, someone was going to do some damage. Short of donating a pdf I didn't have anything to mark it with.

 

[scooper77515]

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I have thought about towing them, but most of these are full downed trees. This thing I was messing with last weekend was most likely a piling, though why it was mounted in the middle of the lake is beyond me.

 

[scooper77515]

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Well i just tied a bottle to theoriginal log. Seems like it should hold and makes it much more visible. Then passed another on way to the beach so tied one on that one too. This one was not attached and i just picked it up and affixed my bottle. If it wasnt so choppy i would have towed it to the dam.

Only improvement i can make is to paint the bottles for better visibility.