Actaully I'll take this a step further. The amount of wave action on the lake is due to not only the increased boat traffic, but the increased number of power boats and the overall size of them. Granted the lake can get rough from time to time, but how much of the wave action is caused by wakes created by boat traffic? Now how much of that wave action is increased due to the size of the average boat being used on the lake these days? Everyone keeps going bigger in an attempt to have a comfortable ride, yet at the same time, the bigger you go the bigger the wake you throw up behind prompting everyone into a never ending increase in boat size. I do agree that cabin cruisers do throw an enormous wake, larger than any other boat on the water, including the go fast cigarette boats. Bottom line, you can't really write laws to curb this unless certain boat types, sizes, etc.... start being regulated. That of course is not the right answer either, matter of fact I'm not sure there is a good answer. All I know is that if everyone keeps going bigger the wakes aren't going to get smaller. Being an operator of a smaller vessel on the lake I just typically stay clear of the busy areas and find that the lake is large enough to find areas less travelled.
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