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![]() "Eisboch" wrote in message ... "HK" wrote in message ... otnmbrd wrote: Was delivering a 110' boat to Fla., running down the ditch..... was an open stretch, nothing in sight ahead, just the occasional side channel, doin about 10K. All of a sudden, looked up one of those side channels and noticed a fisherman in a small flat bottom boat.... Oh Sh&t!!.....pulled em back but knew it was too late! As we went by, we could see that we'd sucked every last drop of water out of that side channel and this "Goodoleboy" was high and dry in the mud with his lower jaw hangin about down to his kneecaps. Bout this time the water rushed back in to fill the void and all we saw was assholes, elbows, and fishing poles flying in all kinds of directions...... Few minutes later we were overtaken by this "gentleman" from the South who had many choice words to say about our "Yankee" heritage.....worst part was that his anger became all the more incensed by the fact that we were all ready in a total fit of laughter and the more he yelled the worse our fit became!!! To this day, I'm not sure how we kept that boat in the channel till he finally gave up the chase! It would have been really funny for you if someone in his boat had drowned. Sorta raises a question though. What is the purpose of the ICW? Is it an inland waterway for boat traffic or is it a private fishing channel for locals? Eisboch Traffic cannot be expected to look up every side-channel and slow down in time if there's boats in them. They'd have to slow down for every side channel because by the time they could see small boats in them going at speed it would be too late to slow down. The burden is on the small boat fishing to keep clear of dangerous wakes coming from the ICW. Go fish someplace else. There is a rule that says fishing boats shall not impede traffic in a channel. Wilbur Hubbard |
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![]() "Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message anews.com... Traffic cannot be expected to look up every side-channel and slow down in time if there's boats in them. They'd have to slow down for every side channel because by the time they could see small boats in them going at speed it would be too late to slow down. The burden is on the small boat fishing to keep clear of dangerous wakes coming from the ICW. Go fish someplace else. There is a rule that says fishing boats shall not impede traffic in a channel. Wilbur Hubbard At some point in the Carolinas (I think South, but can't remember for sure) we came upon a large fleet of small jon boats, anchored and fishing, smack in the middle of the channel and along it's shoreline. The guy ahead of us in a trawler tried to get around them to the left and promptly ran aground. After several minutes of deliberations, I started weaving my way between the boats at idle speed on my 52' vessel. Despite this, we still got the one finger salute from many of the boats along with references to certain parts of one's anatomy. Shuda waked them. Eisboch |
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Eisboch wrote:
"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message anews.com... Traffic cannot be expected to look up every side-channel and slow down in time if there's boats in them. They'd have to slow down for every side channel because by the time they could see small boats in them going at speed it would be too late to slow down. The burden is on the small boat fishing to keep clear of dangerous wakes coming from the ICW. Go fish someplace else. There is a rule that says fishing boats shall not impede traffic in a channel. Wilbur Hubbard At some point in the Carolinas (I think South, but can't remember for sure) we came upon a large fleet of small jon boats, anchored and fishing, smack in the middle of the channel and along it's shoreline. The guy ahead of us in a trawler tried to get around them to the left and promptly ran aground. After several minutes of deliberations, I started weaving my way between the boats at idle speed on my 52' vessel. Despite this, we still got the one finger salute from many of the boats along with references to certain parts of one's anatomy. Shuda waked them. Eisboch The "W" in ICW stands for waterway. By definition, it's a passage for boats to travel. Fisherman have to understand that and yield to the traffic. Of course some won't and their special salutes should be ignored. |
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