On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:35:53 +0000, Larry wrote:

the stumps of those trees are lurking just under the surface of the
lakes, great for fishing, disasterous for boaters.

There are a couple of flood control lakes near Des Moines. They have
fields of standing timber, sometimes just under the surface. I was
boating on one with my 22 foot sterndrive, when a guy I let drive
headed for a marker at high speed while I was in the cuddy fetching
something. He put the prop in a tree trying to read the inch high
letters that said keep back three hundred feet. I wanted to kill him
and an unknown guy at the DNR. My family has had one of the very first
jet boats since the fifties, on a lake where nobody ever ventures into
shallow water, unless launching off a beach. Should of had it that
day. Someone told me you need three props to boat the artificial
lakes, one on the engine, a spare, and one in the shop getting
repaired.

Casady