across the river
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Yes, them also. Draw the line where it becomes a safety issue or does property damage or causes a decline of the "average Joe" wanting to go out in a yak or out with his family in a smaller watercraft. Less cruisers and wake boaters would only bring more smaller craft onto the lakes. I would like to see the number of boats that do not hit the water vs the number of sizeable wake making vessels. The money and people on the lakes would increase imo
O.k., so lets compare the numbers over the last four years of the number of people have been injured or died due the waves from a wave boat, verses the numbers of people who have died or been injured from hitting someone else, getting thrown out of, or running ashore in a bass boat.Check those out before you start talking about safety. It is a public lake. All the fishermen want to ban a wake boat, but you let someone try to ban or regulate the speed of a bass boat and you same people would pitch a fit. It is a public lake, which means it is open for everyone to use. Other people have just as much right to fish there, run a boat there, etc. as you do. The waves from a wake boat aren't anywhere near 10 foot, and anyone who argues that is clueless. If you are a kayak or John boat man and don't like them, I understand that, but those guys and girls have just as much right to be there in theirs boats as you do in you John boat. Your arguments hold no weight. To say banning a wake boat would bring more people to the lake because more people would come out in John boats and kayaks is ludicrous. More people go to the lake to wake board, ski, ride around, etc.... than they do to fish for crappie or bass. If you don't want to be there when they are there, go out early or late, but they have as much right to be there in their wake boat as you do in your "small vessel. If you have an issue with that go to an electric only lake.