Prayers up for all involved.

It's hard to understand why TP&W, DPS or Montgomery Co. hasn't gotten a handle on the yahoo's on Conroe. Year after year its the same old story during the warmer months with the pleasure boaters/watercraft making all but the northern most parts of the lake unsafe for everybody on the lake. For me its not even about fishing Conroe during this time of year (I gave up on fair weather fishing Conroe many years ago), but year after year the kids in their daddy's Scarabs, Eliminators, Shockwaves and every other type of speed/pleasure boat imaginable have literally taken over the lake and made it more of a hazard than anything else. Boaters with little to no experience on the water don't stand a chance on the southern end after the open end of the lake gets all churned up due to the bowl effect, never mind the people who have years of experience on the water. Its a damned shame that the powers that be have allowed the outlaws in speed boats to continue the dangerous games they play on such a publicly utilized body of water.

Rant over.

It's hard to understand why TP&W, DPS or Montgomery Co. hasn't gotten a handle on the yahoo's on Conroe. Year after year its the same old story during the warmer months with the pleasure boaters/watercraft making all but the northern most parts of the lake unsafe for everybody on the lake.

It is amazing how many just "assume" that it is a large, over powered pleasure boaters fault. Reading the story, one of the boats is a bass boat and the other a Mariah deck type boat probably about 24 feet long. I am not an expert on Mariah boats, but it is definitely a single engine I/O setup with either a 5.0 or 5.7 normally aspirated motor with a max speed of maybe 55. I have owned two boats for years. I just sold my 2011 Nitro Z9 and are about to order a new Ranger. My other boat: A 42' Nordic Inferno with 1650+ horsepower. And guess what, I run both on Lake Conroe majority of the time!

Bottom line, boat wrecks happen just as do car wrecks. Some are due to speed, alcohol, overall inexperience, or just a complete freak of nature. It can happen to all of us and as in this case is a life changing event. EVERYBODY needs to pay attention and drive defensively regardless of the type or horsepower of their boat. I can run my 42' at 90 mph just as confidently as a 20' bass boat at 75mph. (In fact, I feel safer in the 42' at 90 mph.) But, I could be in a crash all the same if I fail to see the guy not paying attention just around the bend or encounter that "floater" just under the surface pushed down from the river after a recent hard rain. Just be careful, we all want to be able to go home to our families at the end of the day regardless of our toy of choice.

Prayers sent to those involved. I cannot even fathom this happening to us with my kids in the boat regardless of whose fault it was. You might as well let me go under as well because I am not sure I would be able to handle it.