I decided to do the mid week Bass Tourney out of Ames Farm Wednesday. The fog held us up for an hour or so. Once they let us go I fished around Smith Cove with no luck. About noon I went over to Governors Island Bridge and caught a couple of small mouth. Then I headed up the no wake zone towards Weirs, I decided to go try the docks at Weirs for a couple of fish. Remembering to go wide around the #1 flasher and spar. As I turned the corner towards Weirs I notice a go fast boat. I did a quick look back at the spar to make sure I am going wide enough around it. In the blink of an eye the go fast boat is heading towards me. Knowing I am on his right I turn more to his right, he turns right so I turn left, he turns left so I give it a good yank to my left, we pass each other with probably 100’ between us. I am thinking “no big deal”. I give him a wave, and then I think to myself “boy he is cranking right along for just coming out of the channel, you would think with a 40’, 100mph boat he would know about boating laws. I have been boating on Winni for 47 years so I am not new to the lake. We own these high performance boats we need to follow the laws otherwise they are going to put us down to 45mph.
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