Great day of fishing... BAD LUCK!!

[JuniorFisherJJ08]

Well, Yesterday was a fantastic day to fish the Ohio River. The tournament started at 6am and ran till 2pm. The day started off horrible with my partner having the flu and not able to go. So I decided to go alone. I had my limit of 5 in the boat by 8:15am so now I was off to find the bigger fish. I head down river to some barges In 20ft of water and fish them pulling in 2 larger smallies [2-3lbs]. I cast back out when a ski boat come flying by throwing of an enormous wake. I hook into a nice 4lb smallie n hoist him into the boat while battling the wake. another ski boat passes and the fish came off the hook by himself. I grabed him, opened the livewell, when a wake hits the boat BAM! I got knocked over, the fish flopped back in the water... The wake comes over the back of the boat, and floods the open livewell and needless to say another one of my bigger smallies  took advantage and flopped back into the river. I was stuck with 4 fish the rest of the day. I got 4th with 6lbs 9ozs. 7lbs 4oz took first. Needless 2 say I should of had yet another tournament win 2 add to an amazing season.

[Matt Jungblut]

i feel your pain

happens all the time where i live no respect

the best was last weekend there must of been a bass tourney going on

a guy in a bass boat flies by my brother and i going at least 40 mph

i mean like 50 feet from my boat  gos up a slough and i said to my brother isn't that super shallow we have to push my Jon boat threw there

he says yup not 15 secs latter u hear a big bang must of hit a stump or something

i just pulled up the trolling motor and left didn't even check on him

hope he drowned then 1 less moron on the river

[endless]

i feel your pain

happens all the time where i live no respect

the best was last weekend there must of been a bass tourney going on

a guy in a bass boat flies by my brother and i going at least 40 mph

i mean like 50 feet from my boat gos up a slough and i said to my brother isn't that super shallow we have to push my Jon boat threw there

he says yup not 15 secs latter u hear a big bang must of hit a stump or something

i just pulled up the trolling motor and left didn't even check on him

hope he drowned then 1 less moron on the river

harsh but cant say i dont blame you. i just dont understand some people even in my lil jon boat with a 40 lb thrust i slow down even then. just courtesy might even stop by sometimes to see how the other fishers are doing and chat a lil.

[endless]

Well, Yesterday was a fantastic day to fish the Ohio River. The tournament started at 6am and ran till 2pm. The day started off horrible with my partner having the flu and not able to go. So I decided to go alone. I had my limit of 5 in the boat by 8:15am so now I was off to find the bigger fish. I head down river to some barges In 20ft of water and fish them pulling in 2 larger smallies [2-3lbs]. I cast back out when a ski boat come flying by throwing of an enormous wake. I hook into a nice 4lb smallie n hoist him into the boat while battling the wake. another ski boat passes and the fish came off the hook by himself. I grabed him, opened the livewell, when a wake hits the boat BAM! I got knocked over, the fish flopped back in the water... The wake comes over the back of the boat, and floods the open livewell and needless to say another one of my bigger smallies took advantage and flopped back into the river. I was stuck with 4 fish the rest of the day. I got 4th with 6lbs 9ozs. 7lbs 4oz took first. Needless 2 say I should of had yet another tournament win 2 add to an amazing season.

that sucks sorry to hear. even like when dock fishing you fishers or just drivers on the water flying by your line. i know alot of time some dock fishers wil try to hit them with the weights when casting out. sucks also you placed 4th when said you should had the win.

[skunked_again]

what type of a boat are you fishing out of? every bass boat ive ever owned/been in, if you have enough water coming over for fish to get out of the live well, dude your sinking.

sorry bout the lost fish btw.

[JuniorFisherJJ08]

I was using my 18 ft procraft with a 125hp mariner motor. I had 22gals of fuel in the back with 2 full livewells[small fish in one, bigger in the other]. so the back of the boat was pretty heavy. the front of my boat was forward towards shore. the recoil of the first boat lifted the front up while the wake of the 2nd came over the back. ;p just bad spot and timing I guess

[farmpond1]

Am sorry to hear about your experience.  It's semantics, of course, but I wouldn't call what you experienced "bad luck"-unless you were out of site and the ski boaters couldn't see you.  Otherwise, I'd call it reckless/irresponsible/downright rude behavior on their part.  I have nothing against ski boats and/or jet ski's except when their drivers are rude and inconsiderate.  This, unfortunately, seems to be too often the case.

Makes you almost wish you were equipped with torpedo's, huh?!

[skunked_again]

I was using my 18 ft procraft with a 125hp mariner motor. I had 22gals of fuel in the back with 2 full livewells[small fish in one, bigger in the other]. so the back of the boat was pretty heavy. the front of my boat was forward towards shore. the recoil of the first boat lifted the front up while the wake of the 2nd came over the back. ;p just bad spot and timing I guess

id look into why your livewells are full. most of the livewells ive had/used at the most fill 2/3rds full.

[JuniorFisherJJ08]

when I say full I mean full as in the max the go when they are set on auto. That doesn't mean they are 100% full sry.. lol...

[SoFl-native]

I was using my 18 ft procraft with a 125hp mariner motor. I had 22gals of fuel in the back with 2 full livewells[small fish in one, bigger in the other]. so the back of the boat was pretty heavy. the front of my boat was forward towards shore. the recoil of the first boat lifted the front up while the wake of the 2nd came over the back. ;p just bad spot and timing I guess

id look into why your livewells are full. most of the livewells ive had/used at the most fill 2/3rds full.

He didnt have a boat problem......he had an irresponsible ski boat driver problem.

[Bigs]

sorry to hear. I have had boats scream right by me when Im out on the lake or river all the time and jet skis too. I usually yell at them but they dont hear me or dont care. So thats why I decided to get a fully automatic soft pellet air gun. When you see them approaching just let'em have it. They will get the idea. Also maybe an 8 foot rod with a 2 ounce weight cast right into their expensive winshield will teach them a lesson  8-)