Don't get mad, get even!!! Here is how!!

Before your next fishing trip, add these items to take with you. A small camera and the number for the Game Warden and Sheriff’s office.

So you use the camera to take photos of the boat to get the TX numbers and the person coming to close or anything else they are doing. THEN call the local law and report a violation of the “SPORTSMAN ACT OF 1983”!!!!

What the "SPORTSMAN ACT OF 1983" states that no one can interfere with someone legal taking game. It is a $300.00 fine. The photos will help back up your side and help getting the TX numbers. Also here are some TP&W laws on boating that can be used as well:

Operation of Your Boat
It is unlawful for any person to:

1. Operate so as to cause a hazardous wake or wash.
2. Operate in a circular course around fishermen or swimmers.
3. Operate any vessel or manipulate any water skis, aquaplane or similar device, in a willful or wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others and at a speed or in a manner so as to endanger or be likely to endanger any person or property. (Violation of this provision shall be punishable, upon conviction, by a fine of not less than $200 nor more than $2,000 or by confinement in jail not to exceed 180 days or both.)

PWC
1. operate PWC within 50 feet of another PWC, motorboat, vessel, platform, person, object, or shore except at headway speed (headway speed-slow, idle speed, or speed only fast enough to maintain steerage)without creating a swell or wake; and
operate a PWC and jump the wake of another vessel recklessly or unnecessarily close

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I’m a wake boarder. My crew does not drink, and we get up early morning/late evening to ride. As a wake boarder I want smooth water and a safe deep long line to run. What that means is we gravitate towards the shores and dams that create a wind break and is generally straight.

Any good wake boat driver will generally “run a line” which is basically operating the boat in the same general direction every time, back and forth keeping the boat as straight as possible.

One explanation of why you never see fisherman in the stumps could be you are seeing white Bass and hybrid bass fisherman. These fish are predominately fished for in open water. Other reasons could be the fish have moved out of the coves and are suspended around under water humps or other structure.

Just as I have read that fisherman don’t understand why we can’t go out to the middle of the lake to ride, I don’t understand why fisherman don’t stick to the coves with the trees in em. On Lewisville there are so many places I just cannot take my boat because it’s too dangerous to operate at 22Mph in. There are sticks and stumps and plenty of “fish habitats”. Why are the fishermen not there? I hear stories about people getting fined by the Army Corp of Engineer for cutting down stumps and trees because it destroys fish habitats, yet fisherman I see are never where the stumps are. You will NEVER find me operating my boat in an underwater forest. My boat is too expensive and easily damaged by anything I hit underwater. If you want to avoid us, go there, we can’t get back in there with yall.

If I had a place I could go where I could get smooth water and not mess with other people I would. I would pay money to access a designated lane to ride my boat in that had no wake tires on either side to dampen the effects of my wake on the lake and your boat. Buy unfortunately there is nothing like that.

I think the main thing to understand is that I personally do not want to rock your boat. I would prefer it if we could all share the same little slice of water and keep it smooth far all.

But this whole casting a line at people is dangerous and illegal. If you have an issue with how I’m driving, come over and talk to me. Or take my TX numbers down and report me, but do not cast lines (or do anything dangerous and stupid) at me or my riders.

Just as much as yall get annoyed with being rocked I have plenty of a-hole fisherman stories to tell.

I’ve been running a line at the damn at 6:00am, and been the only boat out there and have had fisherman come park their skeeter right where I’m riding. Then when I come back around for another pass, and I go around them they get pissed when their boat gets rocked. So they proceed to follow my boat getting within 20 feet of my rider and swoop back in forth. Same boat then speeds up past me and just stops his boat in front of mine. Soon as I stopped, they took off and left. So we proceed to ride again. Well then theyy come back and do the same nonsense 20 minutes later. I’ve been flicked off, cast at, yelled at, had boats drive right at my riders before. Last night we were cast at by a fisherman behind the no wake tires at Stewarts Cove. Its nonsense

We aren’t showing off for you, we just want to go around you. If you don’t want to get rocked back and forth by the wake, then go somewhere else. If you stay to one end or the other of where I’m operating I will turn short and give you room. I don’t want to bother you but I’m not going to leave. I will run the line and pass you legally, understand that… I have so few choices on where to ride and get smooth water that I dont know of any other way.