A Reminder to all Pymy Fishermen

Good thing they all had their life jackets on. That's why I always wear mine.

It's all about having a healthy respect.  You have to know your limitations as well as your boat's.
You keep an eye on the weather and you will be fine, it you can't head for the docks, you head  to an island and sit it out.
This lake isn't for those banana peel boats.  It's a shallow lake, like Mosquito.  You can be rolling whitecaps and go down to  Shenango resevoir and the deeper  lake that sits down in a hollow will just have a chop.
Fished this lake for over fifty years, and have never been in that bad of a situation.  I have had to cut anchor ropes, when they wouldn't come up and the storm was coming, and I've had to scoot to an island and sit under the pines, but I've never allowed myself to be in that kind of  situation.
I'm glad everyone was ok and they at least had their  life vests on, but the lake was rolling white before that squall.
I watched a guy put his bass boat in on Friday, and as he was backing it in, the waves were splashing up over the transom.  That, my friend, should have been the first clue!

It's understood that most guys only get to fish there on weekends and have the attitude they're fishing anyway, but please respect this lake. I lost a friend to this lake years ago. His family is still feeling the effects from losing him. If you're going to take chances, wear your PFD. Glad those guys were wearing theirs.

The one time we fished pymie growing up was for some crappie tourney.  We had a bass tracker at the time, one of those flat bottomed jobbers that's really only good for flat/calm waters.  I remember the drive back to the launch after the wind kicked up... harrowing.  I've run from a few storms on Arthur and I've been in some dicey weather on the Chesapeake Bay.  Nothing was as scary as that pymie run.  Be safe out there.