Hi-jack alert
You guys gotta hear this.....Talk about "what were they thinking"

I have a small bass boat that I keep at my Dads house in Michigan. My dad and a friend had it out on Lake Erie a few miles out and were anchored up perch fishing. I had just talked with him via cell phone when the events I am going to relate transpired.

His friend alerted my Dad that a boat was bearing down on them. My Dad turned to look and a large cabin cruiser with nobody at the helm was heading directly for them. My Dad jumped off the stern and my dad's friend jumped from the bow. The cruiser hit them perfectly dead center (what are the chances of that). My Dad was not wearing a life jacket having taken it off after arrival. My Dad credits his friend for saving his life as he thinks he was mere seconds from going under for keeps.

The Coast guard wrote the boat up for gross negligence and cited them for whatever they could. Salvage managed to get my boat upright and to the dock but it is destroyed.

I am just grateful that my Dad is still with us. Thank God!

Anyone boating on the larger Great Lakes, especially St Clair and Lake Erie need to keep their eyes/ears open because both lakes get tremendous pressure from both anglers and pleasure boaters.
There are numerous bars/restaurants that serve the boaters and more than a few boaters think that drinking excess and boating go hand in hand.

Whether alcohol played a part MT didn't say, but you have to take that possibility into consideration when planning an outing with a small watercraft.
I know a guy that fishes big water on a sit-top kayak and keeps a LED strobe type light flashing all the time he out.
Ever see the guys that don't have trim tabs installed or adjusted right on their high powered boats.
Bow up, full steam ahead and the hell with anyone out of their line of site.



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Legal bear spray will say nothing about it's use on anything but animals.
You as a educated consumer NEVER want to say that your legal Bear Spray of choice is for personal protection, which you may mean as animals and the authorities may take it you have it for 2-legged animal protection.

mastertangler wrote on Jul 8^th, 2013 at 8:22pm:


    At the very least you would think they'd lose their boating licenses for an extended period of time and pay some stiff fines.