antique fisherman
Petty Officer 3rd Class
- Joined
- Feb 10, 2010
- Messages
- 85
My Grandson and went fishing early one morning in my 15ft boat with a 50hp outboard. When we left home the weather was great, but, when we arrived at the lake, a thick fog had developed over the water. I should have waited for it to clear ,but, I didn't. I hugged the shoreline en-route from the inlet that we launched from to the one that we intended to fish in. I know the lake well.
Shortly after we turned into the inlet that we intended to fish in, we heard a boat coming our way (head on) at WOT. I slowed own and started giving blasts with my air horn . He couldn't hear it over the sound of his bass boat with his 225hp engine screaming . He was using his GPS , but, they don't show other boats . He was so close to us that his wake hit us in about 10 seconds . We never saw his lights ( if he had them on ).
The following week I installed RADAR on my boat. It looks funny with radar on such a small boat .
A couple of weeks later we decided to go fishing again . We arrived just before dawn . We started to our honey hole and the fog dropped on us again.
I had the radar on and we heard the other boat coming again . I had throttled back and started blasting with the air horn again, but he did nothing. I saw on the radar that it was going to be a near miss again.
I waited for him to get close and gunned my 50hp, which threw up about a 4' wake. When he hit our wake he started skipping across the water like when you throw a stone. We heard him slow down and keep going.
Later that day we decided to go to the marina for lunch. When we pulled up to the dock, he was crawling around under his boat ( which was on his trailer).
My Grandson and I sat down at a table with some other fishermen, talking and eating with one another. My friend came in, placed his order and sat at our table. I had already told the others about what had happened. Someone asked what he was looking at on his boat hull. He told us that he had hit something that sent him skipping across the water. He thought that he had hit a log, but, since there was no damage he had no idea what it was. Everyone started laughing and we told him what he hit and I told him about the previous incident. He admitted that he was going too fast and had earbuds in his ears listening to music and saw or heard nothing.He said that he was in a hurry to get 10 miles up-river to set up and start fishing by first light.
He apologized profusely and said that he was going to get a smaller boat and engine. He said that it was stupid to put a boat in and fly to where he fished when he could launch two miles from his fishing spot and get there quicker and burn much less gas.
Shortly after we turned into the inlet that we intended to fish in, we heard a boat coming our way (head on) at WOT. I slowed own and started giving blasts with my air horn . He couldn't hear it over the sound of his bass boat with his 225hp engine screaming . He was using his GPS , but, they don't show other boats . He was so close to us that his wake hit us in about 10 seconds . We never saw his lights ( if he had them on ).
The following week I installed RADAR on my boat. It looks funny with radar on such a small boat .
A couple of weeks later we decided to go fishing again . We arrived just before dawn . We started to our honey hole and the fog dropped on us again.
I had the radar on and we heard the other boat coming again . I had throttled back and started blasting with the air horn again, but he did nothing. I saw on the radar that it was going to be a near miss again.
I waited for him to get close and gunned my 50hp, which threw up about a 4' wake. When he hit our wake he started skipping across the water like when you throw a stone. We heard him slow down and keep going.
Later that day we decided to go to the marina for lunch. When we pulled up to the dock, he was crawling around under his boat ( which was on his trailer).
My Grandson and I sat down at a table with some other fishermen, talking and eating with one another. My friend came in, placed his order and sat at our table. I had already told the others about what had happened. Someone asked what he was looking at on his boat hull. He told us that he had hit something that sent him skipping across the water. He thought that he had hit a log, but, since there was no damage he had no idea what it was. Everyone started laughing and we told him what he hit and I told him about the previous incident. He admitted that he was going too fast and had earbuds in his ears listening to music and saw or heard nothing.He said that he was in a hurry to get 10 miles up-river to set up and start fishing by first light.
He apologized profusely and said that he was going to get a smaller boat and engine. He said that it was stupid to put a boat in and fly to where he fished when he could launch two miles from his fishing spot and get there quicker and burn much less gas.