Those quiet BaSS boats.

[Thudpucker]

Fishing last night, way after dark on a cloudy night. I was slowly trolling, enjoying the experience.
About 11:30PM, near to the Bouys that keep the Boats using the Channel from the swimmers on the beach. I was being sandwiched out into the edge of the Channel.
I had my 360 light on. The Red/Green lights too, and also my LED head lights were on. The one I wear on my head so I can see to handle the tackle. That light must have been bobbing around like it was on a bobble head doll. I had two lines out and was watching for bouys.

Suddenly a slight noise caught my attention. I was being passed by a BASS boat. I never heard him coming. If he'd not seen me and moved over to get around me, I'd still have been sitting in my seat when the Crash occurred.
What a marvelously engineered boat to be so quiet at that speed. Probably 30-40 Mph. Not as fast as it could go by any means.

I noted in another thread that my small boat dont have to have the 360 Light. But as all can see, your nuts if you go out after dark without it. Especially if you go out in the channels or in the traffic way.

Another nice boat saw me in time to detour around me. They were going night fishing and I was perpindicular to their course. He just hit the gas and went way forward and across my course and made a great sweeping turn to get in almost along side of me.

Lights matter! Size matters too. Big enough for those Hi-ballers to see amidst the plethora of Shore lights in the background.

 

[jtybt15]

Maybe you should put a rotating, blinking yellow light on a 15' pole.

 

[muddkatt]

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Originally posted by jtybt15

Maybe you should put a rotating, blinking yellow light on a 15' pole.

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It would be better if it was 2 rotating blinky lights, a red one and a blue one. he could have a lot more "fun" with them.

Ken

 

[ChampionShip]

My guess is the boat was running a 4 stroke of a newer vintage which is near impossible to hear when it's behind you, as for the boat- well at 40 mph not much of it is actually in the water (especially BASS boats!) Just my opinion, but that happens to us in early AM as well, even with all of our nav. lights on.

 

[pdecat]

How come all them bass own boats? why aren't there any perch boats? or shark boats??

 

[j-d]

Close call, Thud!

Does this mean you got the mariner unclogged?

 

[Thudpucker]

Yup, the old Mariner is able to go out for hours without finding a convenient place among the Poison Ivy on the beach.
Oh you were talking about the fuel system? Yeah. It was some kind of black Goo. Gas wouldnt touch it, but Carb Cleaner ate it right up.

They have another BASS tourny coming up. I may go down to watch that mass launch.

For those days when some cracker is having trouble chasing his boat down the ramp. The ones that yell and cuss at the wife.
I'd have a large screen TV invention that would sense this wandering gypsy, and would automatically show a few minutes of the Mass BASS launch. Just to make this ramp flogger feel like $.02 waiting on change.

I came in at 10 PM last nite. There was a guy at the ramp (just me and him) who was having a time locating the water in his mirrors.
Finally his wife got the trailer in the water. Sideways. Not enough water to get the boat on the trailer straight.
They decided to try again. Dilbert held the bow line and she started back up the ramp with the rig.
Dilbert didnt notice right away, he was watching her instead of the boat, but the trailer caught the bow line as she went back up the ramp.
Dilbert finall felt the jerk about the time the trailer was going by. He's lucky the line snapped out of his hands. It was a sight.

During the day a lot of folks might have tried to help them, but I've learned my lesson. Helping can lead to liabilities in some cases. This looked like one of those cases.