This happened a couple months ago. I was just reading an old thread over on
the iBoats forums on people who should not own a boat, and it reminded me of
this experience.

Hammer and I were both fishing the backwater called "Little Senator's" a
couple months ago. I was working the weedlines and he was working the cliff
face. We were fishing against each other, and just happened to be fishing
near each other towards the end of the day.

As weigh in time approached I found myself motoring out of the narrow
winding channel a few boat lengths behind Hammer. As he swung around one
particularly tight bend somebody in a ski boat hit Hammer's boat. Not a
particularly bad collission, and it was definitely their fault as Hammer
went around the turn hugging the right bank very tight. He was also doing
about 5mph in those tight quarters. At least thats what my GPS said, and he
wasn't pulling away from me.

It was really no big deal, but as I went around the turn the people in the
ski boat started yelling at me some garbage, about that big ****** doing 20
mph in a no wake channel. I didn't bother to tell them that Hammer is my
regular tournament partner. I just killed the motor and made a big show of
standing up. Then I made very exagerated arm motions as I pointed at beer
cans in their hands and boat, and started counting them out loud. "one beer
can, two beer cans, three beer cans...."

About then they nailed the throttle and zoomed out of the channel. Gee!? I
thought they were complaining about the speed people were doing in a no wake
channel.

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