I was doing maybe 30 MPH down the lake just cruising along. I see a jet skier come at me where I had to crank it over to the right. Then I see him turn around behind my wake. I was like WTF. He then came up beside me trying to race me I guess. I just hammered it and got in front of him and raised the place diverter (manual). I know I soaked him. I then slow down and recognize him as he comes up to the side of me. He is the guy who did my upholstery. He owns the shop. He lives on the lake I go to. We stopped and B.S.ed for a while. He said all he saw was a wall of water coming at him….hahahaha. I almost felt bad…

This was the first time I ever did this and probably the last with the cops on the water all over the place.
  T.J.

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93 people looked at this post and TJ & I are the only ones that will cop to roosting a lake lice?


Cowards

I would, but would likely lose my job it dude got hurt or I got caught   

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93 people looked at this post and TJ & I are the only ones that will cop to roosting a lake lice?


Cowards

Are you kiddin' me....I got 2 in one weekend a couple of years ago...right near Needles.....But I gotta admit...one of 'em was so cool about it (laffin' his ass off) he pulled up next to my boat and my partner handed him a beer (well if ya wanna call it that,it was a coors light) He toasted us with the beer and rode off into the sunset! 

please!!! i rooster them everytime i go out, its a must!!!   

No jet ski on this one, but still funny. We were running the Rogue River race in '96, we had a big block powered picklefork built by Joel Sheppard (aluminum) and this thing liked to get a little "loose" when you got a lot of air under it, so when you got into a heavy turn you got to experience a little oversteer, a little strange but super fun.

So anyway, at that time there was and still is a 50' rule (nobody is supposed to be within 50' of the river during the race) and while we were running up river just before going under the Lobster Creek Bridge there's a long right hand turn and rocks the size of Greyhound buses on our right, well there were about four people sitting on these rocks two or three feet from the water line and a couple of feet above the water, we were hugging the right side (shorter line) and the wind was coming downriver (we were going up) and when we came around the corner (about were they were on the rocks) the wind hit us in the face and the boat "got light" we went instantly sideways, while correcting, the 6' tall 200+' rooster tail cleaned that rock of all the parasites (spectators), we felt bad for about a second, then we were laughing our asses off. That was the last time that boat ever ran, she went up in the rocks at well over 80MPH that afternoon, love that story though....

That's fukkin funny!   Thanks for posting.

atleast he gave you the heads up with a smile, hahaha 

Living next to a "no water contact lake" a buddy of mine and I found that it isnt illegal to bring to water to us. In other words we would roost ecch other to cool off. It started off harmless enough but as we honed in on our skills  , it started to sting a bit when passing through the brunt of the rooster. We were at Lake San Antonio at the end of last summer and he comes out of nowhere roost down and cuts me right off while giving the hydraulic switch the "up" command  , I let off it right away......bad move....as I slowed his roost was still going upand I was right in the center of the tail, it actually killed the motor and I ended up with  about a foot of water in the boat, he towes me back in and we get it fired up but it had massive blowby, A piston later all was good, and I have since upgraded my scoop  
since that I have "honed in my roost skills and now am a dam good shot with my roost. I found you can get a really high "knock em off the jet ski" score by luring them in with the roost 3 clicks down from full up position, cruise at 3500 rpm. and just troll through the lice..when one gets up behind me to "cool off" I give it full up....and nail it. its so cool to watch the jetski come flying out of the roost with nobody on it. This shot is a guy who actually thanked me.(Avi trip last year) although his passenger wasn't sharing in the celebration.