Went to Castaic with my family yesterday.
I went down to the buoy line on the left to anchor up. As I was setting the first anchor in deep water a couple speed boats came racing through between the people anchored on the point and a guy in a bass boat who was tied up on the point. They came around again and I waved them off and let them know that I was anchoring up, there on the point.
This point is at the end of the buoy line. It's the point that you are not permitted to navigate beyond.
I set anchor. One out in deep water and one up on the point. My anchor lines are bright yellow and I pull the one on the point up so that it's clearly visible. As I was putting my poles out one of the of the ski boats came around and cut my anchor line. My anchor went flying up in the air and into the water. They knew that they had cut my anchor rope they were looking back at me and they stopped to check their boat for damage.
As I was calling the Lifeguards on the cell phone one of the Lifeguard boats came around the point down near Slalom Cove. So I flagged them down. By the time they got down to where I was my boat had swung way off shore from I had been. I was in 80 feet of water on the end of the point which is a cliff and I wound up out in 120 feet three or four times farther from shore.
I said to the Lifeguards, "See that red boat with the red striped Bimini top? They just cut my anchor line.
So this Lady Lifeguards starts lecturing me on how I can safely anchor without obstructing boating traffic. Please note that boating traffic is not permitted in that location. I asked what the legal limits were on the restrictions she was requiring of me and the other Lifeguard "The Blond Guy." acknowledged that there were none. She went on and on about her opinion of safe anchoring practice until I finally told her that it was her opinion and I'm not interested in her opinion.
This is dumb. The Lifeguards didn't make any attempt to let these people know that what they were doing was against the rules or unsafe. They just began making up special rules for me, to protect people who are breaking the law from my legal actions.
Maybe they didn't understand that we had been up closer to the point when they cut our anchor line.
I pulled anchor and went to see if I could retrieve my other anchor but it was nowhere to be found.
I went down the lake to see if I could find the boat to ask him to pay for my lost anchor. As I past the Lifeguards the Lady just shrugged her shoulders. I guess they didn't even try to talk with the guy.
I never found the boat. I guess the guy bailed when he saw me talking to the LifeGuard.
I'll post the fishing report in that section.
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