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Kayak Fishing Zone => Safety First => Topic started by: pmmpete on July 05, 2017, 06:49:14 AM

Title: How many safety issues can you see in these pictures?
Post by: pmmpete on July 05, 2017, 06:49:14 AM
I encountered this group on Lindbergh Lake on July 3rd: two men, one woman, one kid, and two puppy dogs in a grossly overloaded canoe and two vinyl pool toys.  How many safety issues can you spot in these pictures?  For starters, I should not have been maneuvering that close to them, because the wake from my kayak could have swamped the canoe.
Title: Re: How many safety issues can you see in these pictures?
Post by: Martianfish on July 05, 2017, 07:19:01 AM
Just 1 big one -- sheer stupidity
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Post by: FishingAddict on July 05, 2017, 07:21:59 AM
These situations are all too common.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVgBKN45EEU
Title: Re: How many safety issues can you see in these pictures?
Post by: Baitman on July 05, 2017, 07:38:34 AM
 What ?   They had pool noodles on the canoe...  The lady in the back had  "Ample Floaties "...  :smt044
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Post by: DG on July 05, 2017, 07:41:19 AM
Just another day on the water.
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Post by: VK on July 05, 2017, 07:45:07 AM
It's OK , they're good swimmers .
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Post by: Rock Hopper on July 05, 2017, 07:48:54 AM
All I care about is the kid had a life-jacket.

Guess it wouldn't do him much good if he floated to safety and his parents drowned, though....
Title: Re: How many safety issues can you see in these pictures?
Post by: Mojo Jojo on July 05, 2017, 10:14:33 AM
Darwin at its finest! At least they remembered to bring there bow, in the case too.... is bow hunting even open there now ? How the hell they planning on transporting any big game? :smt044
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Post by: CGN-38 on July 05, 2017, 05:33:24 PM
 :smt044
  Another tow rope!
 :smt044
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Post by: Archie Marx on July 05, 2017, 06:15:53 PM
All I care about is the kid had a life-jacket.

Guess it wouldn't do him much good if he floated to safety and his parents drowned, though....

Yup. Amos and I encountered a woman paddling a SIK (no PFD) while towing two young girls on SOTs (both wearing a PFD). The woman asked me if I could take one of the girls in, but the wind and wind waves were so gnarly that such a maneuver would have made a scary situation a dangerous situation.  Amos and I opted to escort the woman to the ramp. I told the lady that she should be wearing a PFD and that her girls would never forgive themselves if they watched their mom drown.
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Post by: CptSloppywood on July 05, 2017, 06:20:06 PM
"Ample floaties"...haha!
Nice one Jim.
Title: Re: How many safety issues can you see in these pictures?
Post by: pmmpete on July 05, 2017, 06:25:56 PM
Darwin at its finest! At least they remembered to bring there bow, in the case too.... is bow hunting even open there now ? How the hell they planning on transporting any big game? :smt044
In Montana, the big game archery season doesn't start until September.  I think they brought the bow along for entertainment and practice.  They had a foam archery target tied on top of the coolers in the rear pool float.
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Post by: Mienboy on July 05, 2017, 07:15:43 PM
I've seen some,but not that serious.thats pretty brave
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Post by: MontanaN8V on July 08, 2017, 04:58:38 PM
Darwin at its finest! At least they remembered to bring there bow, in the case too.... is bow hunting even open there now ? How the hell they planning on transporting any big game? :smt044
Have to make a separate trip. I tow a kayak when I hunt alone, or one of us waits while towing meat across the lake. Easy peasy
Title: Re: How many safety issues can you see in these pictures?
Post by: AngleDangle on August 22, 2017, 05:18:00 PM
Beer cooler is too far away and wife is too close? Is that guy in front violating a dog too? Man I wish I was back in Montana again. That vacation went by way too fast.
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Post by: Wildrooster on August 28, 2017, 08:11:02 PM
O come on guy loosen up you can do anything on the water or boat
Yesterday at the lake guy were pulling a boat out and one guy was standing on the trailer tongue if he lost his balance the boat would help him fall in front of the wheels
A wake boat was doing what it's designed for creating a wake in the no wake zone and maybe 30 feet from the dock I can only imagine what would have happened if someone was boarding perhaps a child when crushing blows from the pitching dock and boat came togather
Years ago we had a jet ski jump a wake and land killing half the family on board and a guy that literally took his own head off diving off a cliff he was decapatated at the neck when hitting rocks below the water it took a week to find the head
The lists to long love and hate living near so many lakes
Just be safe as resonable