This is a clip of the other boat accident today on lake Norman during the NPFL tournament. Thankfully nobody was killed.

Prayers for all involved and their families.

What an unfortunate accident, it was bad being 1 person; but 3 is just a travesty.

Yup. Another “professional” idiot who is to stupid to operate a boat properly. Grow the sport they say.

As Lindy Roberts used to say "Life jackets and kill switches"

FIFY

Sadly, most anglers are blissfully ignorant of the laws that they violate. In periods of restricted visibility the law requires that you operate at a safe speed, whereby you can stop within the assured clear distance ahead (absolutely common sense). You are required to display your navigation lights (again, absolutely common sense), and to sound a 4 to 6 second blast on your horn or whistle at no more than two minute intervals. How often do we see / hear that happen? I hate to say it, but some (certainly not all) guides and pro anglers set a horrible example. It's not the boat's fault; it's the operator's fault.

I saw an interview with another angler from the tournament earlier today who stated that he saw the center console boat fishing prior to the wreck, and he commented that the boat was in a bad spot. That mindset amazed me; if Flint had been operating at a safe speed he would never have struck the CC boat. It wasn't in a narrow channel. The analogy offered earlier of a driver stopped in the middle of an interstate in a fog was absurd. There are no lanes on the lake; boats are legally operating over the entire surface. There's no place to pull over to get "out of the traffic" on the lake. I can't conceive of a scenario where Flint isn't entirely responsible for this wreck if fog really was a factor.

Ain't no way the guide/center console boat is responsible. That's !!!!

Gotta watch out for yaks too. Hard enough to see as it is, you'd never see one in dense fog until it was too late if you're buzzing along on plane. And it would not be the yakkers fault if they got killed by a someone flying through dense fog.

This is the same as blaming a rape victim for dressing provocatively.

Kayaks in the early morning scare the hell out of me, those guy cutting across a channel or opposite side of a cove and they are hard to see. I don’t know if they have light requirements, but if they do, nobody uses them down where I fish.

Ain't no way the guide/center console boat is responsible. That's !!!![/quote]
Gotta watch out for yaks too. Hard enough to see as it is, you'd never see one in dense fog until it was too late if you're buzzing along on plane. And it would not be the yakkers fault if they got killed by a someone flying through dense fog.[/quote]

Exactly. . . I wasn’t gonna weigh in, but. . . I crappie fish out of a kayak, so I’m always out in the middle of the lake or next to a bridge piling. I’ve been sitting by bridge pilings on a clear day scared to death, because bass boats fly under those bridges at 60+mph trying to get to weigh-in. Drives me insane to see these guys pass by. I have a red flag flying, but when a guy is doing 60mph, they’ll never see it.

With that said, I NEVER go out in my kayak on a foggy day. As some folks have already said, common sense needs to be the priority. But, as we all know, not everyone has common sense. I ALWAYS have my PFD on when I’m in the kayak for just such an occasion.

Many years ago I was on Rayburn started at the damn going north in fog you could see bout 50 yards so was running slow being careful . We went and went for bout 1&1/2 hrs looking for the bridge . I had no compass and then looked up to see we had made a long circle 3 boats of us and there was our starting point { the dam} looking right back at us . We all felt like fools .

If you’re fishing in the boat lane on Fork, on a tournament day, in blinding fog there’s about a 100% chance of you being hit by another boat.

Not placing blame just stating an opinion.