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Ever had a close call while on the water?
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<blockquote data-quote="TheBreeze" data-source="post: 361970" data-attributes="member: 10102"><p>Last night went jug fishing with my young son and another boat. We put out jugs and everything was as normal but at about 9:30pm we saw a big boat coming down the channel. The area we were in is very wide - backwaters not a river channel. He was coming in our direction then starts making a direct path to my boat and is not slowing at all (he wasn't going fast and he wasn't on plane). I started shining my very bright maglight (rechargeable police carry) then started strobing it at him, my buddy started doing the same at him. He finally stopped about 100 yards from us as I started trolling wide open out of his path. I have to admit that I was shaking thinking about what just about happened. I didn't have time to fire up the outboard to go quick because I was trying to use the light to warn him. My buddy could see that he was looking down so he was probably just following his GPS line. This was the 1st time anything remotely has scared me on the water. Has anyone else had this happen and what did you learn from it? Me, I will buy the brightest spotlight that I can, just to have for this reason. Would a flare gun have helped. An air horn? Thanks for any input.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheBreeze, post: 361970, member: 10102"] Last night went jug fishing with my young son and another boat. We put out jugs and everything was as normal but at about 9:30pm we saw a big boat coming down the channel. The area we were in is very wide - backwaters not a river channel. He was coming in our direction then starts making a direct path to my boat and is not slowing at all (he wasn't going fast and he wasn't on plane). I started shining my very bright maglight (rechargeable police carry) then started strobing it at him, my buddy started doing the same at him. He finally stopped about 100 yards from us as I started trolling wide open out of his path. I have to admit that I was shaking thinking about what just about happened. I didn't have time to fire up the outboard to go quick because I was trying to use the light to warn him. My buddy could see that he was looking down so he was probably just following his GPS line. This was the 1st time anything remotely has scared me on the water. Has anyone else had this happen and what did you learn from it? Me, I will buy the brightest spotlight that I can, just to have for this reason. Would a flare gun have helped. An air horn? Thanks for any input. [/QUOTE]
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