Thread: Electric motors only

Originally Posted by got crappie

See there you go some of the issue have already moved away

Take it easy, Dave. Not everyone can be as influential as you.

I'm sure if you moved to Harrisonville, the average IQ in both Trimble AND Harrisonville would go up!

Guess it would be too easy for the governing agency (Mo. Dept of Cons??) to make one rule governing this issue. Jus sayin......

But, I guess with ambiguity comes confusion, and with confusion comes tickets, which equates to revenue, so I guess there is no REAL reason to fix the problem at the 'regulation making' level. I think we just came full circle as to the why's and wherefore's of keeping these kinds of things as confusing as possible. NOW....Is EVERYONE appropriately confused??? Thank you.....My work is finished here.

The local conservation lake is electric motor use only. Most people have a regular motor on there boat. No problem. Having to take a prop off to use a lake is crazy. But if they are having problems I can see the reason for it. Wonder what they do if you have a jet motor.

Originally Posted by perchplucker

The local conservation lake is electric motor use only. Most people have a regular motor on there boat. No problem. Having to take a prop off to use a lake is crazy. But if they are having problems I can see the reason for it. Wonder what they do if you have a jet motor.

Old thread, but hit a nerve with me... My best fishing bro was on Perry Co. Community Lake one day. He was in his big boat but only using his electric motor when he heard a commotion, looked up and saw an empty boat and a guy in in the lake thrashing around. He cranked up the outboard and sped the 200 yards and saved the guys life. Without the outboard, he would have never gotten there in time. The water was 42 degrees.

Ok guys, here's the deal on trolling motor only lakes managed by MDC. You DO NOT have to remove your prop or gas motor on any of the lakes we manage that are trolling motor only. These types of regs are usually for city lakes that we have no part in managing. Sometimes the agent will allow use of the gas motor to load a boat but not every one of them will do so because people have abused the privilege. We do our best to be as consistent as possible with the lakes we manage. MDC owned lakes are all treated the same and when we enter an agreement with a city to manage their lake we typically get them to fall in line with our standards.

TA DA

Originally Posted by jimmydee1

Guess it would be too easy for the governing agency (Mo. Dept of Cons??) to make one rule governing this issue. Jus sayin......

But, I guess with ambiguity comes confusion, and with confusion comes tickets, which equates to revenue, so I guess there is no REAL reason to fix the problem at the 'regulation making' level. I think we just came full circle as to the why's and wherefore's of keeping these kinds of things as confusing as possible. NOW....Is EVERYONE appropriately confused??? Thank you.....My work is finished here.

Just a little clarification on MDC's motor restrictions regs. Unless it's a lake owned by another agency (a City or DNR) or one of our urban areas, lakes under 70 acres are trolling motor only and lakes over 70 acres are limited to 10hp outboards with larger motors allowed at no-wake speeds only. We try our best to get other agencies to use our regs but it doesn't always work out. we also try to make it as easy on the anglers as possible and the no-wake provision is a fairly recent change to do just that. I say fairly recent, it was probably over 10 years ago! Guess that means I've been around too long! Large reservoirs are owned by others and typically allow any motor.

As far as any citations our Agents write, MDC doesn't get a single penny from them. The fines all go to the local school district. This was a brilliant provision that was part of the Design for Conservation which established the conservation sales tax. This means Agents have no financial interest for writing tickets. This means there is no incentives to have "quotas" for the number of tickets they write.

jimmydee1 what can I say.