speed limit for bass boats?

[NJfishinGuy]

does braided line do anything to an outboard? is it strong enough to actually tangle it up?

[llPa1nll]

Speed and proximity: Specific to New Hampshire

Unsafe Passage is not maintaining a proper speed or distance while operating a vessel or while towing a person on water skis or any similar device. Specifically, it is illegal to:

Operate a vessel at greater than headway speed if within 150 feet of:

Swimmers in the water

Other vessels

Rafts or floats

Permitted swimming areas

Docks or mooring fields

The shoreline.

Operate a vessel at greater than headway speed while within 150 feet of a bridge or while passing under a bridge

Overtake another vessel at a distance and speed such that your wake causes danger or damage.

So to answer your question: yes a boat can pass at headway speed right next to your boat.

Taken from New Hampshire boating regulations

That is truly unfortunate. So I guess I have no standing in other to ask for courtesy and respect while fishing. On the other hand maybe a misplaced cast with braided line would change their mind as well. The funny thing is I dont bother going onto the lake I am talking about that I live on during the weekends. I usually go on the weekdays after work. If I go on the weekends its well before Memorial day and well after Labor day.

OH OH OH!!!!! YES!!!!  

I think alot of the getting cut off and interupted as you explained in this post...ESPECIALLY on lakes like you described...is that the people who live there really do not like people that do not live there out on "their" lake. I am sad to say my own brother in law, who owns a cabin on a small lake in Michigan, is that way. He is constantly complaining about the "outsiders" fouling up "his" lake that he pays to live on. He is intentionally rude to fisherman and others that he knows come there from other areas.  

we get that at a few lakes around us as well...

I am not aware of a no wake distance limit. I do not remember reading anything about that. I know there is for larger boats...like charter boats...but even it is referred to as a "courtesy distance" as I remember it.

I am going to have to get my father in laws books out and look this up now...

I hear you. The sad thing is I live on the lake. I have had the same boat for over 5 yrs, people recognize me as the guy that fishes this lake all the time. I have had Charlie Moore out on my lake to tape one of his TV shows, I'm well known on this body of water. I mean I don't want to start a feud with other boaters or have things turn verbal or physical. I would just like some respect and courtesy while I am fishing that I don't have to reel in my line or people are going to run over it, because they are so close. Is it to hard to ask to go around on the outside of me if I am fishing the shoreline or rafts/docks.

[llPa1nll]

does braided line do anything to an outboard? is it strong enough to actually tangle it up?

From what I hear from someone who had this actual problem. Is that braided line due to its lack of stretch will work its way into your prop and onto the rubber gaskets of your lower unit and if not removed could compromise the seals of your lower unit, and then costing you a sizable repair bill.

[George Welcome]

Remember on the water: two ignorant moves doesn't make either of them right. There are people who are intentionally rude and there are those that simply don't know any better.

You are responsible for the safety of your boat and passengers and if it means moving a bit then you move a bit. The only winner in a confrontation is going to be the lawyers involved.