Cupo- I wouldn't take a canoe out in a lake, in the summertime. I hate the unstability of a canoe. Same thing happened on the sky a few months ago. Some cocky little *******s were floating the high drift in canoes, no pfd's. I mentioned to them that they'd better put life jackets on for the next stretch of water. The little punks just laughed. Anyway, somehow I got below them (they probably stopped to litter butt-wipe all over the bank) and I dropped my hook to watch. I knew the difficult stretch I'd just come through would flip them. Sure as can be all three went over and I sat there and watched them flounder around in what was pretty cold water on a pretty cold day. The section was VERY dangerous for somebody without a life jacket, and fortunatley we got everybody to shore.

These are the kinds of guys we're seeing in drift boats on the rivers, and it doesn't surprise me that there's an increase in accidents. And most of these have nothing to do with beer, just stupidity.