Interesting Article on Wake Boats
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rjthehunter
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So... You never figured out how to back a trailer in huh? Thus your stance?
By a lot of people, you must mean just Wake boat owners and wake boat builders. They are universally despised by everyone else in my part of the world (northern WI.)
BirdManMike
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Never tried. Will let you know how goes once I: a) put on a bunch of weight, and/or D) advance another 30-40 years in age.
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rjthehunter
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Woah, I started backing in trailers when I was 6 on a tractor. Sorry to hear about your lack of knowledge on the subject manner.
I guess I'm just an anomaly, along with most of the other fishermen I know.
seeth07
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I learned when I was about 12 - we were up north at the cottage on a rainy morning and rather than go fishing, my uncle took me to the church parking lot across the road and for the entire morning in the rain he made me back that thing up over and over and over. Seemed stupid and we really wanted to just go fishing even in the rain but I don't really regret that training lesson looking back. Time well spent.
rjthehunter
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I started on the garden tractor, then the wheeler, then side x side, then my first boat.
I pity a man that can't back up a trailer.
I've seen way too many people who can't back up trailers. I know exactly what @BirdManMike looks like while trying...
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Pretty brutal what they do to some lakes.
Had my first experience in a wake boat last week on flathead. I wasn't previously aware how specialized they were in their design to create giant wakes.
Had my first experience in a wake boat last week on flathead. I wasn't previously aware how specialized they were in their design to create giant wakes.
BirdManMike
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Human powered is better, I guess.
I had a drift boat for a few years. Backed in fine, same as backing the camper and any other trailer Ive backed up. But I couldnt help feeling that I wasnt fat enough for the thing so I sold it.
The one thing about sitting on a boat fishing all day is that its hard not to think 'I wish I was in the mountains fishing instead of sitting on this boat all day'. I guess thats the thing -- if I knew nothing of fishing but sitting on a boat, then I might be happy with it. Unfortunately (fortunately?), Im ruined with better options (plus Im not fat and Im not all that old yet) and therefore can find little enjoyment sitting on a boat fishing like some fattie or elderly person.
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I always have and always will vehemently despise recreational powerboats that serve any other purpose than fishing or hunting on public waters. A guy was ripping a power boat past me going down the St Regis river here in MT - and when he passed me, told me it wasn't illegal and called me a faggot. I don't even fish the reservoirs around Noxon and Thompson Falls anymore after a guy in a massive party pontoon boat claimed to be a special forces member and threatened to kill my dad (that was a fun call to the game warden). The situation is out of control in places. Thankfully the local lakes I fish these days are restricted to paddles electric trolling motors only for boats.
For you power boat HTers, there are some wickedly bad apples out there spoiling your bunch.
For you power boat HTers, there are some wickedly bad apples out there spoiling your bunch.
WildWill
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Interesting perspective. Would've preferred you to express it with a little more class.
BirdManMike
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How so?
WildWill
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Maybe by not insulting fat, elderly, and especially crippled people for one. Maybe you thought it was funny to get your point across but I'm not laughing. Go bully people elsewhere.
BirdManMike
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Oh. I didnt intend to hurt your - or any of those people's - feelings, just the feelings of boaters. So I apologize for doing so.
WildWill
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Oh so like a 13 year old who's in a wheelchair and loves nothing more then going fishing with his dad on there boat? Is that who you intended to insult?
BirdManMike
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Not at all. I haven’t carved anything into stone (yet) so there is still time for exceptions and exemptions to the collection of acceptable boaters and it feels as though your example falls into this list.
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