Jet ski stories or rants....

[Skillz]

Just wondering if anyone has any humerous stories (or rants) about how they dealt with the annoying jet ski that seems to invade our peace and quiet. There are numerous ways I would like to handle this situation, but unfortunately my wife says she wants one, so I am torn...

A few years ago, I was sitting on the dock, enjoying the spring night and catching some really decent crappies. Out of the blue some jerk decided to ruin my evening by tearing by me at mach 2. The lake I was on was about 3,300 acres and I know there were other quiet bays to ruin someone else's night. Unfortunatly for me, this idiot seemed intent on ruining my evening only. What can you do? I would rather not involve the DNR, but seriously... he had to know from my body language that I was about ready to go get the .22 long shells. Anyone else have this problem>>>

skz


Good Fishin'!!!!

[Tom]

which one do you want to hear first, jet skis and a**holes go together like milk and cookies.




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[stevefellegy]

Now...it's been a relatively tame day today....

My blood pressure is stable...now. BUT!! That bald headed wrestling Minnesota govenor LOVES jetski's...I hope they haunt all the walleye fishermen that voted for that clown!
Okay...I'll settle back down...seeeeee.... deep breath....THOSE DIRTY ROTTEN...Ah....What was the question?

[TK_551]

That is when you tie on the heaviest bell sinker you have with you and cast away!! That'll learn 'em.

Tom
#551

[Atomic Eye]

Last season, I had a couple of them run over my line with planer boards only about 40' out from the boat. They could have been sliced and diced by the line and really tested the drag and ball bearings on my reels!

When I got back to the dock a few hours later, the EMTs were adminstering to a young woman who tried some sort of maneuver and ended up with the jet ski rope wrapped around her neck. It almost decapitated her, nearly broke her neck. It wasn't pretty.

Lots of fun, yeah, I guess! Check the correlation on deaths on the water with the number of jet skis on the water. You might (or maybe not) be amazed!

Atomic Eye (New Mexico) -- "Gone Fission!" ~~~<}}}:>

[Atomic Eye]

OOps, I meant to say that the woman was on a jet ski and she tried to cut in front of a water skier's rope and got entangled in it.

Atomic Eye (New Mexico) -- "Gone Fission!" ~~~<}}}:>

[Stinger WI]

Isn't it great when your trolling boards or working a break line all by yourself and along comes the prick rockets to circle you constantly. We had one instance last year an a northern WI. lake where we were motoring to a differant spot and this guy is jumping our wakes and totally bailed. I just had to turn the boat around to go to him, the person in the boat with me was happy I went back to see if he was o.k. but the reason I went back was to laugh in the kids face. I know that is not very professional, but either is the way most of them operate their rockets. By the way this year they are now band on that lake.

Take care

Craig A
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[Wables]

I always thought that a paintball gun would be a lot of fun. It would provide some entertainment when the fish aren't biting!

[marcbodi]

Hi,
I have had more problems at the Ramp than out in the Lake .

[bigfish1965]

They've upped the minimum age to 16 for jet ski operators here now and in a few years they all have to be licensed. Hopefully this way they'll at least know some of the rules.

[JBL]

It isn't just you, most of these idiots on jet skis just have to have an audience to be happy. When the jet-ski morons start to invade your space- a 12ga flare gun fired right scross their bow does a heck of a job of adjusting their attitude. I keep all the old expired flare cartridges on the boat just for this purpose. I hate em with a passion...

[Pitts]

All you whiners must row to go fishing because the last time I checked my rig did 50+ MPH and was powered by an outboard motor that made noise. Granted it was a different noise than jet skis make but still noise.
If ya want peace and quiet on the dock on your lake ya better start a petition to ban motorized vehicles on your lake because be it jetski or fishing boat or pleasure boat or loud music you will never have it quiet on a stil night.
I do not condone stupid acts of bravery performed by some or illegal operation too close to shore or another watercraft.
We all have to share the lake and you can bet there is someone out there watching your highpowered walleye boat going down the lake at 50+ MPH with a 100' rooster tail shaking there head because they don't see the need for that fast of a boat to catch fish.
The only way to deal with someone that is buzzing much to close is to wave them over and explain your situation then if they laugh in you face get out the 2# daredevil or sinker or flaregun but be prepared to suffer the consequences if you put there eye out or hurt them in any way.


Pitts

[appleye]

I have been known to had an old trown down spoon, with no hooks, tied to 4lb test and I have been know to cast just in front of a jets ski and break the line then the air.(close bail, yank hard) gets most peoples attention. Never, Never, never, hit the nice people only get their attention.

[stevefellegy]

"wave them over and explain your situation". ????
Unfortunately, Pitts, that's usually how these negative reactions to jet-ski's get's started.
An example: Not a boat in sight of me one quiet evening while mousekie fishing on Mille Lacs. NO BOAT IN SIGHT. A jet-ski shows up and a calm, quiet evening, turns into a wavey, loud affair. The fish, as usual, were shallow and confined to a certain location. So I "wave" him over to ask him to run ANYWHERE else on the vaccant 131,999 remaining, unoccupied, Mille Lacs acres of water. All I asked for was ONE acre.
He proceeded to chew me out for being so possessive and disrespectful
for even asking for such an unbelievable favor.
I have CONSISTENTLY run into this SAME attitude on every occasion of the sort.
I truly don't believe the driver of the fast walleye boat you refer to would convey the same but instead would most likely apologize and either slow down or run somewhere else. MOST being the key word.
Don't get me wrong. I surely think MOST jet-ski'ers are GOOD people. But, like the early days of snowmobiling, they just lose the ability to THINK when on the jet-ski's.

[Pitts]

Steve you are absolutely right in being PO'd at that driver he was very disrespectful and needed a good a$$ warming when he was a kid more than once to teach him the diff between right and wrong.
I hope ya keep trying and one of the kids that stops says whats wrong and proceeds to apollegize and vacate your fishing area.
As for the boater in a tourney style boat I don't have a clue that I make a lot of noise going from spot to spot and who I would be bothering but I bet it does and I don't mean to but I probably won't stop running from place to place on a lake.
Thanks for the reply Steve and I look forward to meeting you in the future.


Pitts

[wouldchuck]

A couple years ago my dad and i were trolling the shore line of the lake he lives on. We were about fifteen yards from shore with about three quarters of a mile of lake on the other side of the boat. Then a group of jet-skiers came and began to buzz us. Dad tried to wave them off but this just seemed to encourage them to do it more. Soon they headed on down the shore-line. But then they turned around and started back toward us. At least one of them were intending to cut between us and the nearest shore-line. I quickly put down the rod I was fishing with and picked up the one with the Rappala. I cast as hard as I could for the shore and dropped the Rappala about a foot onto the shore, tripped the bail and waited. Well, they must have seen what I had done because they all turned away from us and had a conference. Then they decided to go to some other part of the lake.

My dad looked at me with a crooked grin and said, "Were you looking for trouble?"

I answered him with the same grin and, "Yep. I guess I was."

[CJW]

Its simply you kick the kids off the jet ski's and 90% of the harrasment goes away. I know some are adults too. But when I'm out it always seems to be someone under 18. Its like 1 adult with no brains and 50 kids that were taught by that one. CW

[Charlie]

Got a great one for this. I will filming a show with North American fisherman a couple of years ago here on the river in Pierre. We were anchored off of a point and casting jigs to the point and drifting them back through the eddy. We were only about 40 feet off of the point.
Next thing you know, a jet ski comes between us and the point. Not only that, he stops and idles right on the tip of the point for about 2 minutes. We could not even cast he had us blocked so well.
Little did the guy know, the camera man kept the camera rolling the whole time. We took the footage to the G,F, and P. They took the numbers off of the jet skit, and the next day the guy was fined massively. I do not remember the exact amount, but it was around 1500.00. HOOHAA!! for the fisherman.

Charlie #900

[Tom (N.W.Ont)]

I agree with the statement that it's all about the audience. They seek out anyone who is there to watch...and you in the boat are a captive audience. What fun is there to tear around the lake and jump wakes and all if no one can see me? Mom & Dad aren't there to watch and pat his head, so you'll have to do.

Waterskiiers...just as bad. I've had a boat drive right arcross the lake to the corner I was fishing, stop, deploy all his gear and a buddy into the lake and take off at full throttle 10 yards from my fishing boat. They came back 3 times as I stared at them in utter astonishment. They looked back at me like I had purple skin and three eyes. Truely puzzling behaviour, which is why I don't fret about it too much...they have meat between their ears.

I've also had a waterskiier pass between me and shore...and only a narrow strip of water was there. Little did they know that I was fishing the flats...if the poor girl they were towing fell, she would have definately been seriously injured. But hey, boats, power, skiies...all for fun, right? Who is safety concious?

In all fairness, water skiiing doesn't bother me much, it's just where they tend to show up. Jet-skiies on the other hand are just plain bothersome. I've been on shore at a friends camp with a good number of people, and a gang of Jets started going bananas across the lake and made a racket that cleared the decks. Everyone inside until the a$$holes are done.

have a nice day

-t

[DarrenB]

Nothing irritates me more than those things, and I curse the day they were invented. I fish the Chain O Lakes in Illinois and the the Fox River often, and once the water warms up you can forget about fishing on the weekends or evenings. The nerve and gall of some of these guys is unbelievable.

On Lake Marie a couple of years ago a buddy of mine was fighting a nice muskie that he had happened to get while casting a walleye husky jerk on 8 lb line. The pole was bent, line was peeling off the reel and the jumping around and the commotion this fish caused was just incredible. Incredible enough that some idiot kid on a jetski comes out of nowhere and zooms up and stops about 15 feet away from us to see what was going on. Can you believe this moron?
As it so happened the fish was pretty tired out already and we managed to boat and release it(44 inch fish), after which this kid got the swearing out of his life by my bud and me. I can just imagine what would have happened if this fish had one more run in him and headed straight for this curious idiot. Had the line snagged on his machine or snapped in his prop we would have lost the fish. We ended up filing a complaint with the Fox waterway agency, but who knows whatever happened with it. They are more concerned with drunk boaters and accidents.

[Clarkie]

A few years ago I was out fishing by myself in a small 14 ft fishing boat trolling a rapala. A water skier came towards me and happened to cut right across right behind my boat (and I do mean right behind my boat). Needless to say, he caught my line.

By the time we were done and he had realized what happened, I had no line left on my reel and he had a rattlin rap lodged in the boot of his ski. At least he brought the rapala back and gave me a chance to chew some A$$.

The worst part was is that I was just headed out and it ruined my night fishing.

It's lucky for him that rap caught his boot and not his leg!

[cno]

I had an experience with a couple on a small lake(about 250 acres) I was fishing with my son one afternoon, the jet skiers were tearing past constantly and putting on their little show, jumping each others wakes, spinning in circles, stuff like that, reaaly impressed us, NOT.Apparently they got bored with the fishermen and one of their buddies showed up with a speed boat so they decided to follow him around and jump his wake.

We decided to leave because they had everything so stirred up nothing wanted to bite, on the way to the access the DNR was just unloading their boat to come and check licenses. As they were checking licenses and our catch one of the two officers was keeping a very close eye on the jet skiers. After they pulled away from us the jet skiers must have realized who they were and took off across the lake to their cabins with the DNR in guys following. They spent several minutes in the cabin of one of these guys, One of these jet skies was not licensed, and both drivers were older, not teenagers. They issued some large fines and we have not seen either jet ski on the lake since. Thank goodness.

Just one note to a post above, Jet skies do not have a prop, they are propelled by a jet of water shooting out of the rear of the machine.

[GR8WTHUNTER]

Not all jet skiers, skiers, and pleasure boaters are A** holes, but ot sure does seem like the bad ones are always on the lake. I seem to get more problems from the guys running the big cabin boats and the twin engine speed boats buzzing me or cutting between me and the point. I keep an old rod with the cheapest line i can buy with a wood float on deck on the weekends. If they are going to plat with me, they are getting a couple hundred yards of cheap mono. After replacing a few prop seals or lower units you'd think they would learn to give the guy fishing some space.

[Wawajake]

Here is a thought that may contentious but might be another way to use the fishermans spending power to eradicate these pesty toys from waters over next ten or 15 years.
It seems to me that the very same dealer that sells us our very expensive fishing boats and all the gear and maintenance money we provide them are also selling these pesky toys. Perhaps if more fishermen expressed their disdain for these ,eventually a few dealers at a time will realize a happy fisherman is better customer than a jet ski customer. Its along shot but can't hurt to spread our feelings in the hopes that not all dealers will yield to the almighty dollar. Or am I in a dream world of quiet lakes and unspooked fish?
Wake me up!! :)
jake
jake

[Skillz]

How much does a new jet ski cost? I am guessing somewheres in the area of $5,000-6,000??? Although very entertaining, most unlikely that a dealer will toss out the extra cash to satisfy a couple angry fishermen. I wonder if the users are ignorant to our rants, or just plain arrogant and don't care. They obviously have not hooked into a good sized 'eye or two. I can relate to using on a hot summer day when the bite is non-existant anyways, but gal-darn-it all Vern... Those pesky kids and their water thingys just burn me up! I ought to take them out behind the barn and tan their hides good.

skz


Gone Fishin'!!!!

[delie]

Are they those little yellow things that sound like a chain saw when their on the water? Wages are shi* the weather well lets not talk about the weather but the section of river I fish here in SD never seen one. So their are something,s nice here other then the fact that we sold are hunting right,s to the highest bider. ND next are you listening?

[CJW]

Just a little note for ya jet ski's don't have props they have impellers like jet boats thus nothing hangs down in the water that would have caught the line on. Its all smooth underneath. It sucks water up into the impeller inside the ski. Just thought you'd like to know that! CW

[Sorry, can't resist]

>Just wondering if anyone has any humerous stories (or rants)
>about how they dealt with the annoying jet ski that seems to
>invade


OUR????????


peace and quiet. There are numerous ways I would
>like to handle this situation, but unfortunately my wife
>says she wants one, so I am torn...
>
>A few years ago, I was sitting on the dock, enjoying the
>spring night and catching some really decent crappies. Out
>of the blue some jerk decided to ruin

MY


evening by tearing
>by me at mach 2. The lake I was on was about 3,300 acres
>and I know there were other quiet bays to ruin someone
>else's night. Unfortunatly for me, this idiot seemed intent
>on ruining my evening only.

What can you do?

hmmmm, did you try and flag him down and ask him to ride elsewhere?

I would
>rather not involve the DNR, ... why not?


but seriously... he had to know
>from my body language that

I was about ready to go get the
>.22 long shells. Ah, take the criminal approach, unlike the jetskiier....


Anyone else have this problem>>>
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>skz
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>
>Good Fishin'!!!!

[CraigM]

A couple of summers ago ,I came across a large pontoon midlake with the motor up and about 20 anixous teenagers waving frantically , thier motor had quit so I offered to tow them back to the marina. Coming in off the main lake I had to pass through a narrow channel (Gull lake to Love lake channel) I was using a large bright colored tow rope as my Warrior came out of the channel entrance a jet skier (no it was not a bald guy) was trying to get by me to go in the opposite direction inorder to get out to the main lake , I waved at him franically to stop but he proceeded to show me his IQ with his middle finger as he hurled explicitives at me and my wife . He was so busy with his anger that he goosed the throttle and ran smack into the tow rope, he was knocked off the jet ski by the tow rope and his jet ski careened into the pontoon I was towing . He did recieve a round of applause and laughter from the folks on the pontoon when he hit the water, There is a God ! We have a jet ski and our family operates it responsibly , so folks it isn't the jet ski it is the person operating it.

[Ralph]

There's a big difference between the two.

Jet Ski's don't just go from Point A to Point B. They stay at Point A, and seem intent on doing nothing more than churning up water for the sake of it.

I used to ride one at a friends camp many years ago before the gut set in. I know.

They should be outlawed !!!

[marcbodi]

Hi,
I almost forgot this one .We were trolling NE of West Sister 10 miles out and 2 jetskis went by us heading east.I wouldn't have believed it if I wouldn't been there.

[Buckeye]

Marc I was going to ask how much fuel they hold. I was fishing around the turnaround a couple of years ago and one zipped up and the guy started fishing. Couldn't believe it. When he went up for a new drift he went nice and slow too. I thought it looked like he was putting fish into a storage compartment under the seat.

[ryan the poor college kid]

hey:
how bout' little 10 year old that ride around on 3-wheelers ALL day not even 100 yds away while ice-fishing????
i waved a kid down while we were prefishing a pike tournament and the little ##### smiled and kept on doing it. his dad did nothing! we were on a pretty good sized body of water, Sheridan Lake, SD, but we were so shallow that i didn't like to move on the ice for the chance i would scare the pike. guess it didn't matter.

[Water Dog]

My favorite jet ski sighting was out in the fog on Lake Michigan .

Yes sports fans , two miles out of the port , sun shineing brite fog so thick it was 100 ft visibilty at best .

Here they come , screaming , WHICH WAY IS THE HARBOR ?
I say , FOLLOW THE SCUM LINE , BACK TO THE PORT !
They say something intelligent . BLANK , BLANK U Ars-hole .

Not impressed I ask , DON'T YOU GUYS HAVE A COMPASS ?
Watching them speed away I think , well that's some clever idiots , out in the fog , without a compass .

Well , you guessed it , 10 minutes go by and HEAR THEY COME AGAIN !
Now they are hopping mad ! BLANK , BLANK THIS . BLANK , BLANK U AGAIN !

I ask , do you see that white foam and debris in the water ? WELL IT'S COMING FROM THE PORT !
And awaaaay , they goooo !

No thank you , or anything , just some jet ski's roaring thru the fog like bats flying out of Hillary Clinton's backside .

[Skillz]

Someone once told me that it is better to have someone think you are an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

"simply can't resist"- good for you. You did an excellent job of removing all doubt from my mind and others...

skz