All you guys talking about big boats on small rivers reminded me of something that happpened a year or two ago on the Clackamas. I think it was late winter (doesn't really matter), but this idiot decided to put his brand new 20' Bayliner in at Carver. Anyone who has been on this river already knows how bad of an idea this is. To top it off he decides to go downstream with it. Well I don't think I have to tell you what happened. We drifted by the next day and the boat was grounded a short distance below the the ramp. He tried to go through a riffle of a little more than a foot with bad results. I don't know how fast he was going, but he must have hit really hard. The prop was up at the top of the riffle and the back half of the boat was almost ripped off. Sheriff had to be called out to retrieve the idiot. I'm sure between the law, his insurance co. and the other boaters, he really got chewed out. Very expensive lesson.

So I guess sometimes there is justice out there for those morons.