Bassin and Beer

[CWB]

I definitely do not drink while fishing. Tends to diminish concentration and increase the need for pit stops which can lead to an unexpected plunge. I will have one or two after a successful day and maybe even more if I don't have to get up an hour before dawn the next day.

[kms399]

my buddy usually brings a six pack and I will sometimes have 1 or 2. I am 6'2 and 300 lbs so 2 beers is like nothing. that said i usually fish in the  morning and I just wont drink until at least noon.

[Grey Wolf]

There is no reason you guys can give to justify drinking booze while you are out on a boat............................None at all.

Thankfully I don't have to justify it to you. If I am within the law, I will continue to enjoy beer and bass fishing.

Where can you legally drink and operate a boat while fishing public waters ?

Do you feel attacked by my statement ? Y ou don't have to justify anything to me.

[Back2fishing]

If you get caught drunk driving your boat here , your boat is gone your driver license is gone as well. I have seen the aftermath of drunk boating 4 people killed not worth it to me .There is a time and a place for every thing IMO drinking and driving is not one . I drive truck for a living and have seen a lot of bad stuff on the roads much of it to do with drunk driving.

Kevin

[Elite Image Fishing]

I had the DIS-pleasure of fishing with a good friend of mine on his private lake while he was intoxicated. I found it very disruptive and even as I was controlling the trolling motor (no need for the outboard) I found it rude and obnoxious to 1. set the hook on nothing very very hard and rock the boat and 2. YELL at the top of his lungs if he did hook a fish. I feel if you want to drink in your boat go ahead, but I personally do not. I don't frown upon or condone those who do, unless (as in this case) it directly affects me and my well being (or fishing). Just my 4 cents worth.

[skunked_again]

There is no reason you guys can give to justify drinking booze while you are out on a boat............................None at all.

because we want to. what is it about "within the law" thats hard to understand?

shore lunch = all the beer i want within the legal limit. i re-read this thread 2 times and didnt see 1 post where ppl are running down the lake with a beer in hand.

jet skis to me are the real concern.

[roadwarrior]

There is no reason you guys can give to justify drinking booze while you are out on a boat............................None at all.

As John Dayley says, "Beer doesn't count."

8-)

[skillet]

"You might be a redneck, if you ever got too drunk to fish."

                                               ;DJeff Foxworthy ;D

skillet

[Az Bassin]

As long as its one or two ok  I personally dont.. I like to after ward while in camp or maybe the night before a tourny have a few esspecially if its hot...Wich is like every day in AZ....

[DINK WHISPERER]

NEVER outside of my own home! Even just one can put innocent lives in danger! I could not live with myself if i took somebody's mother, father brother etc because i wanted to drink!

[Fishing Rhino]

Never drink on a boat, even if you are not the operator.

If something happens to the operator, you might have to take over the helm.

[Koop]

I don't drink on the water, shore fishing is another story though.

[bass or bass ?]

My fishing trips are always 24 hour excursions. I usually have 3 or 4 Rolling Rocks in that time. I prefer Dr.Pepper at night  and ice water during the day. I take a 5 gallon water cooler full of ice & water and never run out no matter how hard we hit it.

[ring fry]

I drink way too much beer when I play golf or play pool.  When I am fishing however, I never drink if I am on water where I can get it up on plane.  I want my reaction time to be as good as possible for self defense against the ones that are drinking or not paying attention.  If I am on small water I might throw two in the cooler along with a bunch of water.

[senile1]

If I go out to dinner with the wife and have a glass of wine or a beer with the meal, I am fully capable of driving home, and if stopped by law enforcement, I would easily be a legal driver. If I go to the lake and sit in a cove and have a beer at mid-day and maybe another near the end of the day a few hours later, I am fully capable of driving my boat, and again would not be violating any laws. My alcohol level would hardly be measurable. There is a big difference between having a beer and a snack at mid-day on the water and drinking a few drinks or beers on the water. In my state, driving a boat while intoxicated is a crime as it should be; however, driving a boat after one beer, for all but the tiniest of human beings, would not even come close to approaching intoxication.

http://www.boat-ed.com/mo/handbook/alcohol.htm

[Clark Stewart]

I don't operate a boat well enough sober to try to do it under the influence.

[senile1]

Here's some more food for thought. A twelve ounce beer that has an alcohol content of five percent contains only 0.6 ounce of alcohol (.05 x 12 = 0.6). In general, the average liver can process one ounce of alcohol per hour, so it would take the average liver 36 minutes to process the .6 of an ounce of alcohol contained in one beer (.6 oz/1oz = 36 minutes / 60 minutes). In other words, after 36 minutes, more or less, the tiny amount of alcohol from that single beer is already gone from your system. I'm not trying to encourage people to be drinkers on the water. I'm just saying that someone who has one beer on the water is not a menace like those who drink a few.

[retiredbosn]

I am a Coast Guard veteran, and I've cleaned up my share of boating fatalities, 90% had one thing in common, alcohol.  Most people think nothing of a few beers and running their boat.  I will tell you however that if you get caught, the boat is impounded, your license revoked, (typically three years), and you may or may not get your boat back, depends on the state, the judge and whether or not it was the Coast Guard that caught you.  Most states are harder on boating while under the influence or intoxicated than they are on automobile offenses.  Kinda hard to influence the judge that you absolutely need to have your fishing license and boat back.  

With all of that said, shore fishing with bait, I may have a couple, in the boat not a chance.  

[DINK WHISPERER]

I am a Coast Guard veteran, and I've cleaned up my share of boating fatalities, 90% had one thing in common, alcohol. Most people think nothing of a few beers and running their boat. I will tell you however that if you get caught, the boat is impounded, your license revoked, (typically three years), and you may or may not get your boat back, depends on the state, the judge and whether or not it was the Coast Guard that caught you. Most states are harder on boating while under the influence or intoxicated than they are on automobile offenses. Kinda hard to influence the judge that you absolutely need to have your fishing license and boat back.

With all of that said, shore fishing with bait, I may have a couple, in the boat not a chance.

THANK YOU

Very well put................................

[Joe Boss]

Never drink on a boat, even if you are not the operator.

If something happens to the operator, you might have to take over the helm.

I agree 100%

No booze or beer will ever touch my lips on a day I have to touch a steering wheel of any type.

[Jeremy D.]

Here in alabama the same rules for a car apply to a boat as long as you blow .08 and below.  When im fishing a torny not at all but fun fishing ill bring a couple.  I have heard alot of pros drink alot on the road....ALOT

[RobE]

I don't operate a boat well enough sober to try to do it under the influence.

You, too, huh?  :'(

I like beer. It makes me a jolly good fellow. I don't drink on the boat, though. Heck, even my Gatorade gets warm before I can finish it. Hot Gatorade beats hot beer.

I take that back. I do drink on a boat sometimes. I have a buddy with a pontoon boat and he likes to catfish all-night long. We might take 3 or 4 cases for ourselves and the girls will bring wine-coolers which we usually have to finish for them because "Honey! My drink is too warm. Will you please get me another?". Wine coolers scatter catfish so you can't pour it in the lake unless you have personally filtered it.  

We anchor in a likely spot and rig up a few rods, toss a few jugs around that 24 footer and put on a Johnny Paycheck CD. Later in the evening, we might argue over CCR or Alice Cooper. It's his boat and his wheelchair so I usually give in. As the night wears on, I help him out of the chair and onto his cot as Pink Floyd plays on the stereo, thanking him for his service in the USMC. He will usually mumble something that sounds like "Wash ta wods, fitch fissin a bith."

I usually bring in a few cats before the morning sky begins to glow a deep purple. The stereo has been off for 5 hours. Everyone is asleep and I am on Sentry Duty. Mike wakes up at the slightest light and wants to listen to Charlie Rich. He climbs back aboard his chair and I lay down on the cot. I mumble something that sounds like.. "Cap'n Mike. Dive me onm an keen da fitch. I ef you du beers."

That's fishing.      

[Stagerlee]

Pink Floyd huh?

[Lynx]

Its my rule, I always follow it, Never break it... I DON'T DRINK ON MY BOAT, & YOU DON'T DRINK ON MY BOAT.

Exceptions:

1. Drink when your off my boat, as I choose to.

2. Trout fishing from shore.

3. All other fishing from shore.

DONT DRINK & DRIVE, I LOST AN UNCLE TO A DRUNK DRIVER!

If you want to drink stay home or go to a bar. (Or have a DD) By drinking on a boat you are putting the lives of yourself & others at risk.

Good lucks to you in catching the "BIG KAHUNA!"

[RobE]

Pink Floyd huh?

Yes, and the Grateful Dead, too. There's just something about the bass line in the song Comfortably Numb that makes catfish hungry.  8-)