walleye 4-29

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3 man limit trolling nw of niagra. 33 back on the low diver and 43 back on the high diver, 75 feet best lead for reef runners. best color was gold clown, 3 29's and 1 28 incher nice fish a few small ones.

[NITE BITE]

Jiggy i thought you always had respect for the boats running big boards.from my observation i thought we were being respectful buy keeping our line heading north.

I understand being respectful to other boats but lets hope it dont happen agin.

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what happened did I miss something, I had a great day on the lake I changed course all day long to avoid boats even when I had the right a way. If you are on a north heading and you have the right away you should maintain course, if not you should make an adjustment. Captains correct me if im wrong you have to maintain a course to have the right away you can't turn into some one. is this correct?

[rollin-n-trollin]

No i believe the stand on vessle has the right of way and he would be on your starboard side

[miso_ohio]

The stand on vessel (approaching boat on your port side) is suppose to maintain course and speed so the give way vessel (approaching boat on your starboard side) can make a course change.

The stand on vessel should only alter course if they do not think the give way vessel is making any changes (after they blow the 5 horn blasts WTF are you doing signal). I believe the rule is stated in a way that even if the stand on vessel does not maintain a course the give way is still responsible to try and get out of the way all though I would be blaring a couple of warning horns myself at the stand on boat in that situation.

Can you tell I am still fresh off the classes

It is tough out there trolling though, it always seems the boats without auto pilots get into trouble when they get a fish on and everybody goes to the back to try and net it. Meanwhile the boat is going wherever it wants including turning right into your lane giving you nowhere to go if someone is running the line to the the other side of you. Then you have the auto pilot boats where hardly anybody pays attention to crossing boats.

I have seen a couple close calls already this year and I am sure we will have more. At least so far we have not had an emergency pull all the gear on one side incident, that really sucks when you have 8 setups out per side.

[rollin-n-trollin]

I am sry miso but the stand on vessel is the boat on the starboard side the give way is the boat on the port side.