Found these photos in Bob’s Bait shop in La Crosse. Apparently some youngster who had just gotten a new bass boat was hauling a little too fast last Thursday through a backwater slough in pool 7, hit a stump, and launched his boat and 2 passengers into a tree! Luckily nobody was hurt.
Have to clean the shorts after that one. That had to be one scary experiance.
How fast does a bass boat go with a 225 hp and an inexperianced driver.
TOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo Fast.
What can you say besides HOLY @#$%
Shouldnt be chase’n those green carp!
Soon we’ll have air bags and seat belts, that dash board had to hurt.Amazing they didnt break the wind shield
Holy *&$@ That is pretty unbelievable. How in the world does that happen.
How, exactly, do you get a 2000+ pound boat and motor like that out of the tree and back in the drink? Not like you can get a tow truck out there.
Do you know what slough that is, it looks familiar. Of course, there are only about 2,357 sloughs out there that look like that. 
He was in Gibbs Chute on Pool 7.
Hougie, Did you see the boat? I was wondering what kind of shape it was in. It looks good fromt the pic. But what happened where the glass met tree?
Holy Smokes,
I thought I pulled a bone-headed move when I put a scratch on my new Fishawk first time out. Wonder if there was any alcohol involved? How fast will a 225 push a boat like that? lucky they weren’t killed.
I wonder if-hope he learned something from the experience.
Oh well, soup happens. 
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It has never ceased to amaze me that you need a license to drive a car and you have to take a training course to buy a 4-wheeler but if you write a check they just drop the keys in your hands and leave people to figure out the boat for themselves! Lucky that nobody is dead!
Peerless
I’ve shared that same sentiment here before and few if any seemed to agree with me. Cripes, driving a car is easy… a boat with a 200+ HP motor… in big waves… fog…. crowds with no “apparent” rules governing spped, distance from other boats, etc.
Its kinda nice to know I wasn’t completely alone on that one!
The boat is at AL’s Specialty and Marine in Rochester. Boat was totaled.
A guy by the name of wide open willey put his Ranger so far up in the trees & brush that those running by could’nt see it. Took twelve guys to carry & drag it out. At the following Cedar Rapids bass club meeting they presented a rody knob, for his steering wheel 
{John}
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j/k Guys.. I would guess dependin on the boat and its load proly does a good 75-80mph…..Sure doesn’t look like much damage though! 
