I haven't been to some of the more notorious lakes, just heard the stories. I'm told Seminole is really bad.

Only place I've ever SEEN it happen with my own eyes is Logan Martin, but I don't generally consider it bad. There's a place going into Choccolocco we call "The Shortcut", at full pool you can run through it on plane, but the right side has a looooong shallow bar/point that you have to stay left of. Saw a boat hit it one morning, I don't know what damage it did but it shut the motor completely off.... we could tell from a distance nobody was hurt, and very quickly another boat pulled up to them, so we just carried on fishing. I had JUST said to my friend, "That boat looks way too far right, hope they don't hit that point." And they did.

Lay gives me fear, but I "generally" know where the timber is and just avoid it. Strange enough, lots of Wedowee is 80+ feet deep and there'll be 10,000 treetops about 12"-18" below the surface.

You need to know where you are going at Lake Talquin

I've been on Talquin several times.Seminole has clearly marked boat lanes. It's the locals running out of them that find the stumps.
In Mobile it's the gas pipeline that crosses the Delta. I saw a guy with a new rig one morning and that afternoon , his New Evinrude was laying on his rear deck. With the tides new logs float in and out every day.

Florida...

I'm going with Weiss or pickwick above the bridge

Lay

Wheeler........The left side of Hwy 31 going south in to Decatur. Seems like Roland Martin tore a lower unit off or maybe even the transom out of his boat and lost a lot of tackle some years ago right there.

Spring creek on Seminole. Below Mitchell dam.

I think roland hit a log on river channel. Anyone who “runs” in east lake, east side of 31, is taking a huge risk with their motor!

[quote=perchjerker]I've been on Talquin several times.Seminole has clearly marked boat lanes. It's the locals running out of them that find the stumps.
In Mobile it's the gas pipeline that crosses the Delta. I saw a guy with a new rig one morning and that afternoon , his New Evinrude was laying on his rear deck. With the tides new logs float in and out every day.[/quote

Perch, isn’t that where Shaw Grigsby lost a unit?

The bend in 13 Pole Ditch on Wheeler has a nice stump on the corner that'll bite you if you don't go wide enough.

Yeah, you can get in trouble in a hurry on Weiss.

Blade, Shaw was in Briar. There is a deadhead about 1/2 way up on left(its probably moved). On high tide it's only about an inche above the surface. I know this because I hit it too, It slung me and a buddy out. luckily I saw it just before and it slid under the hull and lifted it out of the water. when I surfaces I swam into the boat and hit the yammy. It cranked and I drove it up on the bank. Things like that happen in a flash. Since i was only gonna move a 100 yds, neither of us put our PFD's on. Never again ! When the motor cranks it goes on.

When the paper company was logging the delta, it was full of deadheads. They'd pile logs on banks and high waters would wash them off.

this post made me think of the guy fishing the bassmasters out of montgomery that ran up moccasin gap to jordan dam water went low and he completely destoyed a $75k boat there is a video of it on youtube

So I take it you were throwing wooden frogs back then?

My first time out on Guntersville, I quickly learned why that little green buoy was sitting in the water over by Guntersville Marina. $400 repair job.

Put your boat in at Horseshoe Bend and then compare it to every other place listed here.

Reelfoot Lake, TN

There used to be (may still be there) a stump at the mouth of Boatyard Lake in Baldwin County, right before you entered the slough to go out into the old river, that I would about guarantee has destroyed more props and lower units than any single stump in Alabama.

Wheeler dam trailrace.