get off MY water
 

On Fri, 25 May 2007 10:51:09 -0500, Rodney Long
wrote:

Doug wrote:
Oh yeah Rodney, it's the law I think pretty much across the board.


Alabama instituted it to stop "PETA" from disrupting bass tournaments,
it seams to have been very effective. Bass tournaments bring many
millions of dollars into our state each year. SO they did it for the
money :-)
Yeah Alamama sho nuf......eat spam fried from Steve.

get off MY water
 

On May 23, 4:37 pm, "Doug" wrote:
Craziness!! I had a similar experience, kind of, a few years back. Only I
was the shooter, in a sense.... lol
I was bank fishing this public state owned pond, about 30 acres and it was
long and narrow, probably about 7 or 800 feet across, and here comes this
model boat club, and they set up camp across the pond from me. I was like,
"cool, this ought to be neat to watch". I kept on fishing. Next thing I
know, these things are whizzing around the whole damn lake at about 40 or 50
miles an hour, and they kept getting closer and closer to me fishing. One
came about 20 feet away from me and about hit my line, and I heard them all
chuckle and laugh over there. I yelled, "HEY, I'm fishing over here!".
They did that same thing, each time getting closer and closer. I picked up
a rock, and chucked it out probably 30 feet behind the next boat, as a
warning shot. It didn't seem to have an effect on them. I threw up my
hands like, what the hell guys?! Well, the next little boat came around, I
picked up a rock, threw it, not thinking I would actually hit one of their
little water missiles, and BANG!!! That thing spun twice, flipped and sank!
I paused in shock for a second, and murmured to myself, "Holy SH**". I
looked over and I seen about 15 of those guys dropping remotes and running
for the end of the lake. There was only 1 path to the lake and about a 100
yards thru the woods to the parking lot. The race was on!! I had about
that 100 yards on them by the time I got to the truck, threw my stuff in,
started it up and gave them a gravel shower, unintentionally. Man, I about
died that day! lol

Every time I take my boy into the hobby shop, I see those little boats and
start laughing... Those things are about $2000.00 a piece too. That story
somehow reminded me of this story, so I thought I'd share...


I had a similar experience, my model boat club went to this lake and I
had a new boat that was given to me by my grandfather just before he
passed away. I was very reluctant to use that boat because it was hand
built by my pap-pap, took him almost 3 years of non-stop work to make,
everything was built by hand or machined in his tiny shop. Being as he
was now gone the boat was priceless to me. Anyhow, the others
convinced me to go ahead and get it wet so I thought I would try it
out as a tribute to pap-pap. I got it into the water and something
went wrong, it was not responding to my remote and it started going
near this guy fishing, each time it got closer and closer to him. I
was praying he wouldn't get upset but he yelled something about
fishing and I was too upset to respond. He then threw a rock at my
boat but there was nothing I could do. My eyes were filling with tears
as I desperately tried to get the boat to respond when all of the
sudden he throws another rock and my hits my boat. By boat spun twice,
flipped and sank. I was shocked and heartbroken. Everyone dropped
their remotes and started after this guy, I did too even though I am
missing one leg and am blind in one eye. I got to his truck just as he
was pulling away and he showered me with gravel which shattered my
glasses. A piece of the glass went into my good eye and eventually
caused me to lose sight in that eye as well.


Everytime I go into Bass Pro Shops and someone describes fishing rods
to me I start crying like I did when my son read me this fishing story
and then typed my responce.

get off MY water
 

On May 27, 1:02 pm, Siskuwihane wrote:
On May 23, 4:37 pm, "Doug" wrote:





Craziness!! I had a similar experience, kind of, a few years back. Only I
was the shooter, in a sense.... lol
I was bank fishing this public state owned pond, about 30 acres and it was
long and narrow, probably about 7 or 800 feet across, and here comes this
model boat club, and they set up camp across the pond from me. I was like,
"cool, this ought to be neat to watch". I kept on fishing. Next thing I
know, these things are whizzing around the whole damn lake at about 40 or 50
miles an hour, and they kept getting closer and closer to me fishing. One
came about 20 feet away from me and about hit my line, and I heard them all
chuckle and laugh over there. I yelled, "HEY, I'm fishing over here!".
They did that same thing, each time getting closer and closer. I picked up
a rock, and chucked it out probably 30 feet behind the next boat, as a
warning shot. It didn't seem to have an effect on them. I threw up my
hands like, what the hell guys?! Well, the next little boat came around, I
picked up a rock, threw it, not thinking I would actually hit one of their
little water missiles, and BANG!!! That thing spun twice, flipped and sank!
I paused in shock for a second, and murmured to myself, "Holy SH**". I
looked over and I seen about 15 of those guys dropping remotes and running
for the end of the lake. There was only 1 path to the lake and about a 100
yards thru the woods to the parking lot. The race was on!! I had about
that 100 yards on them by the time I got to the truck, threw my stuff in,
started it up and gave them a gravel shower, unintentionally. Man, I about
died that day! lol

Every time I take my boy into the hobby shop, I see those little boats and
start laughing... Those things are about $2000.00 a piece too. That story
somehow reminded me of this story, so I thought I'd share...

I had a similar experience, my model boat club went to this lake and I
had a new boat that was given to me by my grandfather just before he
passed away. I was very reluctant to use that boat because it was hand
built by my pap-pap, took him almost 3 years of non-stop work to make,
everything was built by hand or machined in his tiny shop. Being as he
was now gone the boat was priceless to me. Anyhow, the others
convinced me to go ahead and get it wet so I thought I would try it
out as a tribute to pap-pap. I got it into the water and something
went wrong, it was not responding to my remote and it started going
near this guy fishing, each time it got closer and closer to him. I
was praying he wouldn't get upset but he yelled something about
fishing and I was too upset to respond. He then threw a rock at my
boat but there was nothing I could do. My eyes were filling with tears
as I desperately tried to get the boat to respond when all of the
sudden he throws another rock and my hits my boat. By boat spun twice,
flipped and sank. I was shocked and heartbroken. Everyone dropped
their remotes and started after this guy, I did too even though I am
missing one leg and am blind in one eye. I got to his truck just as he
was pulling away and he showered me with gravel which shattered my
glasses. A piece of the glass went into my good eye and eventually
caused me to lose sight in that eye as well.

Everytime I go into Bass Pro Shops and someone describes fishing rods
to me I start crying like I did when my son read me this fishing story
and then typed my responce.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Its a real shame when you can't control yourself or your boat and have
to pay the consequenses.

Ronnie

http://fishing.about.com

get off MY water
 

On May 27, 1:10 pm, Ronnie wrote:
On May 27, 1:02 pm, Siskuwihane wrote:





On May 23, 4:37 pm, "Doug" wrote:

Craziness!! I had a similar experience, kind of, a few years back. Only I
was the shooter, in a sense.... lol
I was bank fishing this public state owned pond, about 30 acres and it was
long and narrow, probably about 7 or 800 feet across, and here comes this
model boat club, and they set up camp across the pond from me. I was like,
"cool, this ought to be neat to watch". I kept on fishing. Next thing I
know, these things are whizzing around the whole damn lake at about 40 or 50
miles an hour, and they kept getting closer and closer to me fishing. One
came about 20 feet away from me and about hit my line, and I heard them all
chuckle and laugh over there. I yelled, "HEY, I'm fishing over here!".
They did that same thing, each time getting closer and closer. I picked up
a rock, and chucked it out probably 30 feet behind the next boat, as a
warning shot. It didn't seem to have an effect on them. I threw up my
hands like, what the hell guys?! Well, the next little boat came around, I
picked up a rock, threw it, not thinking I would actually hit one of their
little water missiles, and BANG!!! That thing spun twice, flipped and sank!
I paused in shock for a second, and murmured to myself, "Holy SH**". I
looked over and I seen about 15 of those guys dropping remotes and running
for the end of the lake. There was only 1 path to the lake and about a 100
yards thru the woods to the parking lot. The race was on!! I had about
that 100 yards on them by the time I got to the truck, threw my stuff in,
started it up and gave them a gravel shower, unintentionally. Man, I about
died that day! lol

Every time I take my boy into the hobby shop, I see those little boats and
start laughing... Those things are about $2000.00 a piece too. That story
somehow reminded me of this story, so I thought I'd share...

I had a similar experience, my model boat club went to this lake and I
had a new boat that was given to me by my grandfather just before he
passed away. I was very reluctant to use that boat because it was hand
built by my pap-pap, took him almost 3 years of non-stop work to make,
everything was built by hand or machined in his tiny shop. Being as he
was now gone the boat was priceless to me. Anyhow, the others
convinced me to go ahead and get it wet so I thought I would try it
out as a tribute to pap-pap. I got it into the water and something
went wrong, it was not responding to my remote and it started going
near this guy fishing, each time it got closer and closer to him. I
was praying he wouldn't get upset but he yelled something about
fishing and I was too upset to respond. He then threw a rock at my
boat but there was nothing I could do. My eyes were filling with tears
as I desperately tried to get the boat to respond when all of the
sudden he throws another rock and my hits my boat. By boat spun twice,
flipped and sank. I was shocked and heartbroken. Everyone dropped
their remotes and started after this guy, I did too even though I am
missing one leg and am blind in one eye. I got to his truck just as he
was pulling away and he showered me with gravel which shattered my
glasses. A piece of the glass went into my good eye and eventually
caused me to lose sight in that eye as well.

Everytime I go into Bass Pro Shops and someone describes fishing rods
to me I start crying like I did when my son read me this fishing story
and then typed my responce.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Its a real shame when you can't control yourself or your boat and have
to pay the consequenses.

It's more of a shame some people can't laugh once in a while.

get off MY water
 

Wow man, that's uncanny! What's the odds of such a similar experience
happening to another person like that, only on the flipside? Never did
catch that SOB huh? Tis a sad day when fishermen and model boaters meet on
the water, it usually ends up in bloodshed.... Usually fishermen spawn in
the spring, and you see them in numbers on the flats with their boats.
Model boaters should be aware of this time of the year, and schedule there
outings accordingly, in order to avoid such conflict in the future... We
were both fortunate that day, cause either of our situations could have
turned even more ugly! ;)

Thanks for the chuckle,

Doug






" I had a similar experience, my model boat club went to this lake and I
had a new boat that was given to me by my grandfather just before he
passed away. I was very reluctant to use that boat because it was hand
built by my pap-pap, took him almost 3 years of non-stop work to make,
everything was built by hand or machined in his tiny shop. Being as he
was now gone the boat was priceless to me. Anyhow, the others
convinced me to go ahead and get it wet so I thought I would try it
out as a tribute to pap-pap. I got it into the water and something
went wrong, it was not responding to my remote and it started going
near this guy fishing, each time it got closer and closer to him. I
was praying he wouldn't get upset but he yelled something about
fishing and I was too upset to respond. He then threw a rock at my
boat but there was nothing I could do. My eyes were filling with tears
as I desperately tried to get the boat to respond when all of the
sudden he throws another rock and my hits my boat. By boat spun twice,
flipped and sank. I was shocked and heartbroken. Everyone dropped
their remotes and started after this guy, I did too even though I am
missing one leg and am blind in one eye. I got to his truck just as he
was pulling away and he showered me with gravel which shattered my
glasses. A piece of the glass went into my good eye and eventually
caused me to lose sight in that eye as well.


Everytime I go into Bass Pro Shops and someone describes fishing rods
to me I start crying like I did when my son read me this fishing story
and then typed my responce.