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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
Here's an August 7, 2025 video ..... www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp6gHrqJwo0 .... on wake surfing stirring up the lake bottom, 4:20-length made by Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul on Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota. Lake Minnetonka has 14,528-acres and is located about 16-miles west of Minneapolis.
Some quotes from this video:
"It is significant. Boats are getting bigger and so that energy is going into the water and impacting the water column and the lake bed."
"You get quite a bit of a disruption, erosion, re-suspension of material and even damage to vegetation. It's like a bomb goes off and that's a really big damage .... aquatic plant communities are fragile."
"They recommend that wakeboats should only operate in surfing mode in waters that are 20-feet deep or greater to minimize impact on the lake bed."
"wakeboats adversely impact lakes ..... releasing nutrients like phosphorous .... leading to excessive algae growth" |
This video has been circulated and commented on plenty of times online. It was a dramatization. You don’t surf in 9-14 feet of water which is what this video is based on. I usually run in 40’+. Sometimes I get into the 30’s but that’s not my goal. You can’t build any type of real wave in under 20’. Let us responsible people have our sport and just nail the ones that aren’t in compliance with the law. We aren’t all careless, reckless and inconsiderate.