....LL is the worst for those wake boarders.



It sure is Pappa K.

Last week when Planokeith and I returned to Harborbay on Ray Hubbard we witnessed couple trucks pulling a new Malibu Wakesetter off the ramp. Water was pouring out of the transom. After we got Keith's boat out I went over to look at he damage on the Malibu.

The bottom of the boat was smashed from the curve of the V to the stern, completely smashed the wedge almost ripped it off and the prop as well. Couldn't believe the guy got it back to the marina. I asked one of the guys there what he hit and was told the big rock in party cove pulling a skier. If memory serves me that bolder is sitting in 6 ft of water. I would guess a total loss on that boat.

A guy can afford a 100k boat but not one penny of common sense.

I was on lake Conroe last night at 11PM and the lake was still rough. Its a bulk headed lake and that just means that earlier that day it must have been terrible!!!!!!

Not trying to burst anyones bubble, but as a wakeboarder and fisherman I thought I'd let yall in on a secret:

On most lakes, there's literally only 1-2 spots you can actually wakebord. Usually in a calm cove or NEXT TO THE DAM! For those that aren't familiar, wakeboards need calm preferably glass like water to cut and get traction. These things are not like the water ski's you remember using back in the day in the middle of the lake. This is why grandpa and the kids in the canoe are getting buzzed...there's nowhere else for these big expensive wake throwers to go. When I was wakebording every summer a number of years back, I had nothing but fisherman, skiers, towable tubers, and jet ski's thrashing the only water I had to wakeboard in, so I literally had to drive like a bully to protect that water. Just some insite as to why it's done like this, as most people I talk to speak harshly about wakeboarders, when to me it's compeletely understandable. Just like you don't like them running in your favorite fishing spot, they don't like you parking in the only spot on the lake for them to board.

The people with the 8' ropes going 10-13mph are "wake surfing" like others have mentioned. "Wakesurfing" doesn't require calm water like "wakeboarding". Most of the people I see on our lake waksurfing don't seem to get this. Then they eat up the "wakeboaorders" calm water which intensifies the bully mode making it worse for all.

If tubers, skiers, and wakesurfers could stick to open water, the lake traffic would be much more orgainized. Also, fishermen and wakeboarders could live in harmony.....(not happening) but closer to it! LOL

The real problem is jet ski's in my opinion. I've had a jet ski since I was 12 and I remember having to take a boating courst to be able to ride it legally. Taking that course really helped me understand boating safety and respect for other boaters. Nowadays you'll have 1st timers or kids on jet ski's with nearly 300hp or supercharged fury out on the water not knowing jack didly. Yes...Kawasaki is up to 300hp on a personal watercraft which is just ridiculous. Anyway, these are the people who are really bothersome and are usuall the ones causing accidents and who have no business on the water. I beilive everyone in excess of say 50hp should take a boating safety cousre which covers respect for others on the water.

This is all a problem for fishing as boat traffic usually never helps. I don't want to come off like I'm against respect for fisherman (as that's pretyy much all I do these days), I just wanted to help yall understand why wakeboarders usually buzz you and have the mentatlity they do. I get it now, when I'm in my 17' aluminum boat and somebody buzzes me in their $60k wakeboard boat and almost flips me into the water...I get upset, but knowing why they do it, I just fish anywhere but the 1-2 areas they can wakebord in. During the weekdays, this is usually never an issue, but on the weekends, , my advice would be to avoid the few spots they have to board in.

nicely said!!!!

I just wish they had a little more respect for fisherman....especially us in 17.5 foot aluminum boats....

I fish as well as wakeboard, Bosshog nailed it. If im on lavon and someone is fishing the dam, I have no problem running right past them. I know it sucks for them, but it's my lake too and that's one of maybe 2 good spots when the wind is blowing out of the South. (always). General disrespect of parking lots like you mentioned, no wake zones, general douchebaggery however also goes with that crowd unfortunately. I get where you are coming from, they have $100k boat, no clue how to use it for what it's intended for, and just cruise around messing stuff up.
Now what about the boater (fisher or wake boarder) that pulls out of the lake then stops right in the middle of the ramp and unloads, straps down, etc for the next 15 minutes instead of pulling on up and out of everyone else's way. That really chaps my hide. Inconsiderate people come in all shapes.

Don't want to step on toes,but as a fisherman I can tell you the "All About Me" people run bass boats as well as wake boats.

In order to drive a motor vehicle on our public streets you first must go to DPS take a written and driving test and pass them both with at least a 70. I'm all for the same thing for boats of all types on all public waters.

And they perfer to do so in coves where fisherman like to fish because the shallower water helps to create a bigger wake than the deeper main lake does.


Its prob'ly just the paddler in me talking but i think it ought to be illegal to practice any sport that makes the water unusable for anybody but yourself for the length of time you are present.

Road rage, ramp rage and now boat rage.

I think consideration as a whole has taken a huge drop.