Totally agree, they affect other peoples ability to enjoy their activity. So it really is an issue. People cruising around viewing the sites, anglers working shorelines or trolling , even standard ski boats can Share the water pretty well without impacting each others enjoyment, by following basic rules. But these newer monstrosity wake boats impact shore anglers, swimmers, paddle boarders, kayakers , trollers in a very negative and at times dangerous way as well as eroding and damaging shorelines and in some cases docks etc. Even when they are observing the proximity rules, Those wakes travel hundreds of yards and carry with them a lot of energy! I’ve seen more than one paddle boarder dumped by a wakeboard wake.
I was stopped in my boat trying to read instructions in the manual on my electric motor and sitting on the bow next to my electric, when my buddy yelled looked and said grab on! A wake from a wake boat that had passed 30 seconds before made it to us and if he hadn’t warned me it might have dumped me out! Not 10 minutes later another wake came from behind us and came up over the back of the boat filled the splash well and washed up on the carpeted back deck. My boat is big enough not a big deal but a smaller boat or kayak, could be a big deal that was a huge wake!!
Maybe alternate days or wakeless only areas?
I was stopped in my boat trying to read instructions in the manual on my electric motor and sitting on the bow next to my electric, when my buddy yelled looked and said grab on! A wake from a wake boat that had passed 30 seconds before made it to us and if he hadn’t warned me it might have dumped me out! Not 10 minutes later another wake came from behind us and came up over the back of the boat filled the splash well and washed up on the carpeted back deck. My boat is big enough not a big deal but a smaller boat or kayak, could be a big deal that was a huge wake!!
Maybe alternate days or wakeless only areas?
time spent fishing isn't deducted from ones life