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Re: Poor boat handling, don't play with speed.
[Re: bloodtrail]
#2173303
07/22/17 11:27 AM
07/22/17 11:27 AM
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Posts: 8,670 NW Alabama
R_H_Clark
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NW Alabama
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A perfect example of why 90% of people don't need to own a boat with more than a 20 hp motor. Agree! People shouldn't own any gun capable of holding more than 1 bullet either! Single shots are all that's needed for hunting or target shooting. Maybe you shouldn't...I on the other hand, should. The gun is a metaphor. I'll keep my dangerous bass boats and high capacity magazines. Maybe you're a 10%er. Seriously though,I wouldn't turn my inexperienced kid loose with an AR-15, yet it seems that the same equivalent is happening with watercraft. I don't want to ban anything but there has to be better answer than just letting idiots run till they kill themselves or someone else.
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Re: Poor boat handling, don't play with speed.
[Re: perchjerker]
#2173322
07/22/17 12:02 PM
07/22/17 12:02 PM
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Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 31,681 Slidell, La
perchjerker
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Freak of Nature
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I always looked at the ability to run from a lightning storm. I usually trailer to an area I'm going to fish if possible. It's cheaper and quicker in many cases.
Thomas Jefferson. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Life is too short to only hunt and fish on weekends!
If being a dumbass was fatal some of you would be on your death bed!
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Re: Poor boat handling, don't play with speed.
[Re: bloodtrail]
#2173350
07/22/17 12:46 PM
07/22/17 12:46 PM
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Joined: May 2012
Posts: 8,670 NW Alabama
R_H_Clark
Leupold Pro Staff
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I can agree with that. MOST folks either do not know the rules of the water or refuse to follow them. Being able to travel 40-50mph allows me to run 10-15miles to a marina for drinks, snacks, or gas and not use all of my fishing time. It also allows me to fish the river section or the deep lake section of a reservoir. If the lower end is full of wake boats I'll run 15-25 north to get away. Not everyone wants to fish within 1-2mi of the ramp, that's all you can do with a 20hp motor.
Interstates and major roadways are the real dangers. I think you can do a little better than 1-2 miles with a 20hp.I used one for a lot of years and did better than 2 miles just paddling. I understand your point and I have no problem with anyone who knows how to drive safely. I don't care if you get up some speed on a big open area. On the other hand we have a little lake up here just a few miles long,6-8 would be my guess if you don't count the very shallow feeder creeks. it's about 50-90 yards wide most places and very curvy and winding. There's guys running their 250 hp bass boats wide open around those curves all the time,like they think it's the Indy 500. There's just no sense in it when you could get to the same place at a safe speed just 3 minuets later.
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Re: Poor boat handling, don't play with speed.
[Re: perchjerker]
#2173396
07/22/17 01:39 PM
07/22/17 01:39 PM
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Posts: 4,571 Behind you
Avengedsevenfold
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10 point
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Where you talking about R.H.?
Carrying a gun isn't comfortable; but at times it is comforting
"Cause the cause for the pause you think you see is really concentration on the steel” NonPoint
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Re: Poor boat handling, don't play with speed.
[Re: perchjerker]
#2181252
07/31/17 06:24 PM
07/31/17 06:24 PM
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Posts: 38,489 N. Bama
257wbymag
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Boo Boo Head
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Posts: 38,489
N. Bama
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Damn a bunch of fishing. Sucks anyway.
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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