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    Posted: 26 July 2004 at 10:53

  You know what I learned this week end ? Don't let your bow rope flap in the water  by your jet-drive intake! The intake will suck it up faster then you can say "O" SH$T!

 Like ten feet of it, it takes around (all day) to cut it out. We were at Gibson reservoir knocking the  hell out of the cuts and graylings . I guess that is PAY BACK! It was fun any way and well worth the trip and the rope!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 July 2004 at 11:31
d4570: been there done that !!!! just i dont have a jet drive. the prop chewed the hell out of it.  but if you want to see something realy dumb try backing away from shore with a minnow and leach bucket full of bait. about 20 bucks worth. the guys at the bait shop laugh their asses off. i havent done it but i have seen guys take off for shore with a basket full of perch still hanging over the side.. the guys just sit and stare as it goes to the bottom.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 July 2004 at 12:08

A standard prop would make just as much mess.

the bow line should be made one foot short of the prop/jet.  Most folks just say make it 5 foot short of the boat length.  I just let a line 'troll' from the bow while drifting till it could be seen t the transom.  Measured it and cut/spliced a line precisely 2 foot short of the prop.  Never hit it.

You rear working lines are not as easy as they are closer to the prop and to dock or moor at some places you need a long aft line.  I use 6 foot on the rear/aft working lines.  they can hit prop but not by much.

Real shit happens when you drift across a ski rope.  that yellow poly wrap tight and melts with the friction on the prop hub.  And the captain is always to blame; but you can make the crew that laughs walk the plank.Ouch

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 July 2004 at 14:15
 bear: i havent done it but i have seen guys also run into gil nets out in the big lake awhile back. but since ind stopped useing them no problems here but i have herd of horror storys of bigger fishing boats up north in the great lakes finding them and realy haveing a problem. like getting caught up in 1 and then trying to get back in befor a storm.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 July 2004 at 01:46

long nets usually have a pope on either end.  it is the way they are retrieved AND it is the way to identify the nets.  I've already come up on nets before realizing it because of the distance between the poles.  Paying attention I was always able to stop short of the nets.  lots of boating hazards, it is not like driving a car. 

Real hazards are the river systems series of dams.  the older dams have no super structure above them.  so coming down river it is easy to actually miss the 5 buoys and go over.  If you saw the Bruce Willis movie "Striking Distance" (great flick), you see the chase scene where boats are actually driven over the dams.  It can be a scary experience.  I've boated on the Mississippi river system for 40+ years.  River barges maybe 30 with a power tug are the biggest ships afloat.  At night they use to have only one small dirty red kerosene lantern on the front.  any I've seen many that had blown out, and were marker less.  they just grind you up and keep going, not knowing they impacted.

Boating needs a full time attention, especially at night.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 July 2004 at 06:44
i just watched a show about the race from shitcago to makanic island race. 336 miles. sail boats from all over come to race in it. the race was last weekend. i have knowen about the race since i was a kid but this was the first show that they had a crew on a couple of boats. the big problems with the gil nets up north are they arnt marked. the indians set them and if there are any boats around that they dont know they will just leave them. they will have a bleach bottle to mark them. most of the time is seems when people get in trouble with them is when its foggy out on the are in trouble befor they know it.
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