What I See- THOUSANDS of Horsepower

D.W. Verts · October 17, 2024, 09:00:37 AM

Every time I fish Lake of the Ozarks I see the MONEY. Million dollar homes are nothing. Docks that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. And the boats...

Pretty much I just shrug it all off. But I saw this one yesterday. Wow. I really don't know how to take this. 2500 hp on one boat. Just wow.

Donald Garner · October 17, 2024, 09:19:57 AM

Never been to LOZ but heard lots of stories about the place. That's a lot of horse power there for sure. I'm sure if I was to travel up to Dallas / Ft. Worth area I'll find boats like that on those big lakes up there also.

While I was living in Alaska I saw a few boats (Charter Boats) rigged out with multiple outboards like that at Whitter, Alaska on the Prince William Sound.

D.W. Verts · October 17, 2024, 12:58:38 PM

Donald I can show you TRITOONS with two and three motors, upwards of 400 hp each. So weird and so wasteful.

Dale

coldfront · October 17, 2024, 01:03:07 PM

'cause you can... I guess...

compensating much?

coldfront · October 17, 2024, 01:03:38 PM

know a guy with a supertuned 150 on an early 90s 17 foot ranger than can take it...

TechAdmin · October 17, 2024, 01:52:01 PM

Grab one, he won't notice

D.W. Verts · October 17, 2024, 03:27:45 PM

Quote from: TechAdmin on October 17, 2024, 01:52:01 PMGrab one, he won't notice

The only reason he doesn't have six of them is because he ran out of room. I could sell one and buy TWO new 200's...

Dale

Capt. BassinLou · October 17, 2024, 03:37:10 PM

Pretty common sight for us in South FL,, for the OCEAN!! For a lake!! Geesh!

big g · October 17, 2024, 03:43:31 PM

With 5 of those you know your going to have a lot of down time with your machanic!

Hobious · October 17, 2024, 04:05:38 PM

that fool would rip past me in my kayak all day long. hahahha..

caddyjoe77 · October 18, 2024, 10:01:10 AM

crazy man just crazy

Princeton_Man · October 18, 2024, 10:50:29 AM

He's certainly trying to compensate for some shortcomings.

D.W. Verts · October 18, 2024, 03:29:23 PM

Betcha I know what his TRUCK looks like. Unless of course he drives a 'Vette.

Dale

BASSCATLILDAVE · October 29, 2024, 06:27:38 AM

I couldn't afford to fill it up.

topdsm0138 · October 30, 2024, 08:35:32 AM

High HP doesn't catch fish.

Tiller Mafia.

Hobious · October 30, 2024, 11:38:41 AM

collectively as a group, i see all of you as talented, cool as hell fisherpeople.

lets not worry about some random strangers, "stuff". just leads to misery. i like where i am at. in a plastic zero horsepower boat. hahahah

bassmedic46 · November 02, 2024, 10:14:09 AM

Never saw that before. Definitely compensating.

D.W. Verts · November 02, 2024, 03:38:59 PM

You can't help but see all these folks "stuff". It's everywhere on LOZ. And this boat, about 32' long, some sort of a flybridge contraption, is NOTHING compared to other boats on the lake. I just saw those five engines and I sort of went "wow".

Other folks crap means nothing to me. I've got enough crap of my own to deal with.

Dale

caddyjoe77 · November 04, 2024, 02:00:05 PM

the wildest part is, im sure that its not the only one. Secondly, that lake is not even that wide in a lot of spots. the wake has to be ridiculous, even more than it has ever been before at that place.

wish i could go back to when i was like 12-13 in November and catch tons of kentucky bass and whitebass on crank baits and topwater all day, especially when it was windy. Then go sit in a crappie house all night and slay crappie

D.W. Verts · November 04, 2024, 04:20:23 PM

I thought about doing a YT video, running up the main channel at 1 PM on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Then I thought to myself, "why?"

You can't believe it without seeing it. Hundreds of boats, many over thirty feet long, plowing. Just plowing. I've seen eight foot rollers behind a bigger boat (and one time THREE of them together, all fifty-plus feet, side by side). The wakes bounce off each other, and you would think they would cancel each other out to some degree. Nope.

THEN they bounce off the rock bluffs and seawalls that surround the lake. It's amazing and one of the contributors to my, and many others, back issues.

I refuse to do this any more. Sometimes it's pretty bad during the week too, but only from mid- April to mid-October or so...

Dale

caddyjoe77 · November 05, 2024, 12:22:23 PM

i was out there in say 2017 in October. Weather was crappy, thankfully, except one day and that was bad enough. Could not imagine a Saturday in May or June.

Thought about moving there, once, then said no. Same for Table Rock, and decided against it. TR is the next once great place to be ruined.

D.W. Verts · November 05, 2024, 01:36:48 PM

The Rock is shot, aesthetically speaking.

Dale

Princeton_Man · November 06, 2024, 06:16:59 AM

Quote from: caddyjoe77 on November 04, 2024, 02:00:05 PMthe wildest part is, im sure that its not the only one. Secondly, that lake is not even that wide in a lot of spots. the wake has to be ridiculous, even more than it has ever been before at that place.

wish i could go back to when i was like 12-13 in November and catch tons of kentucky bass and whitebass on crank baits and topwater all day, especially when it was windy. Then go sit in a crappie house all night and slay crappie

Big fish in a small pond. Half the boats on Summersville Lake are 40'+ cigarette boats and most of the rest of them are either 30' yachts or wakeboats. There's few high hp pontoons as well. Summersville is only 2700 acres with 60 miles of shoreline. Claytor isn't much better, Claytor is about 4500 acres and 40 miles of shoreline, Wake boats and jetskis probably outnumber most of the other watercraft there. The biggest problem on both Claytor and Summersville is that there's seldom any law enforcement, most of the people on either either don't know or don't care about safe boating regulations.