ORIGINAL: Jack Ryan
I always have one of those big red and white dare devils tied on to a good heavy rod and 20lb line. You'd be surprise how far those suckers can "accidently" go. Easily reach the legal limit in most states of how close you are allowed to run to an anchored vessle.
Damned unfortunate if a jet skier gets tangled up jumping wakes a little to close to fisherman tossing one of those big rapalas. Get's pretty exciting once you hook one of those suckers though.
I've found from experience that if they're close enough to endanger the boat I'm in they're close enough to get an unopened beverage can between the shoulder blades at 40 mph . The "evidence" sinks pretty fast and the thoughtless little bassturd who was on the ski has a devilish time trying to make his case against grown men when the CO arrives .
This happened to me at a local lake(Patoka) once , the kid on the ski was doing about 40 mph in a 5 mph zone near a boat ramp . We were anchored about 300 yards from the ramp fishing some stickups , when the kid came blasting by nearly swamping our boat . We yelled to him to slow down and quit buzzing us , but got the "Chicago Salute" in return . After the third pass-by I grabbed a canned "pop" out of the cooler and drilled him . He actually had the nerve to call the CO on us , but quickly found out that three grown men trump a punk kid on a ski , especially since the CO was actually responding to a nuisance call about "some jerk on a jetski" endangering boaters near the ramp !
