d**n it to hell, why can't the TVA at least try to clean up surface debris?

I'm crusing down the lake (Ft Patrick Henry in Kingsport TN) this afternoon.  Get to the last straight stretch before the dam.  Keeping an eye out for floating stuff, see a small log off to the side.  After no more than a second of looking to the side, I look forward and there is another log floating dead ahead.  No time to swerve one way or the other.  I never came out of the throttle.

It made contact twice.  Barely ticked the outboard.  Was probably 3-4" in diameter.  Times like that I wish I had a Hotfoot and smooth steering.

Twice in my last three trips to that lake I've hit stuff.  Ran over a floating pallet late one night last summer.  

I idled around a bit after I hit the log today, never seen so much trash on a lake before.  The area around the dam looked like an old saw mill with logs floating everywhere.

Gonna have to put a cowcatcher on the front of the boat next time.  ;D

Stonewall came up so fast when they started holding back water. It has been the same way. Giant tree sized logs floating around everywhere. Had a 19 year old drown there last week. The boat hit a log at night and capsized. No PFD... :-/

EDIT:  I found out yesterday it was not a log that caused the boy to drown.  They had four very large people in a 12' jon boat crossing the lake at night.  Alcohol was involved and you can imagine the rest of the story...

This place never gets more than 3' below full pool.  I don't know if it is crap that has washed down from the other two lakes upstream or if it is just junk that the wind stirred up today.

Guess that's part of fishing a damned river lake.  Don't know if it was the log or something else, but my prop is pretty much crap now.

The lake I usually fish is the same way. Whole trees floating down every now and then, but usually just after storms. I take it slow after dark but can usually just watch closely during the day. Last time I went I had to weave through five or six logs at one point.   I've been told that is why there is a hp limit on motors there.