Gated Canals

[tarfu]

howdy; $0.02 into the pot. if some of your local commercial fishermen and shrimpers use the waterway to transit to and from harvest area to market and there are any aids to naviagation in water or on shore the coast guard should know, and if the commercial guys happen to work or i should say utilize ports in MORE than one state then the interstate commerce commision needs to be notified that people are RESTRICTING interstate commerce.
that's all i got to say about that. tarfu

[labill]

Guys, there are many contingencies that come into play here, and it's encapsulated in a one liner I've heard all my life, especially in business. It ain't right, but it does rule........"Money talks and BS walks" There are ways around anything if you have money and influence, but how many of us do? We would have to break the law to get what's right in this world, but there again, we don't have money, and we will do time. Once again, it ain't right, but it rules.

[Moose1am]

Well they have a republican Governor in KY and that state is allowing dock owners (republicans) to wall off the area around their docks (including some bays) to fishermen. They seem to have a dislike for crank baits hitting the expensive boat seats and ripping holes in the upholstery. So they (Marina Operators/Owners have gone to the local goverment and obtain the rights to the waters around their docks on some but not all lakes in the state of KY.


In IN we have two Boat Marinas and both have no wake zones around them. But no one has stopped anyone from fishing around the docks.

Check out the www.fishin.com KY web site forum and do a search on this topic.

Money talks and it does not matter what political party the govenor belongs to.

Remember the story of Robin Hood and the Sherrif of Notaham Forest? Seems that even back then the Rich King wanted the deer all to himself.

[Moose1am]

Our forefathers broke the laws of King George but we call them Patriots today and back them King George called them criminals. But the guys with the biggest guns usually decide what laws are valid etc.

The King of France found out that money didn't always talk. The people got fed up with his BS and marched on Paris grabbed King Louie and his wife and put them to the Gillatine and off with their heads.

The South almost succeeded from this United States back in 1863 but failed to do so. But they sure tried for four long years.

Things can change if the people want things to change

Right now the price of gasoline has reached $2.26 a gallon here and oil is selling at $58 a barrel. Something will have to give soon or this country will not have a middle class much longer. Will will end up with a few kings and the rest of us will be SERFS.

Guys, there are many contingencies that come into play here, and it's encapsulated in a one liner I've heard all my life, especially in business. It ain't right, but it does rule........"Money talks and BS walks" There are ways around anything if you have money and influence, but how many of us do? We would have to break the law to get what's right in this world, but there again, we don't have money, and we will do time. Once again, it ain't right, but it rules.

[fishingpox]

I wonder if we could organize a workout? Everyone that has a job,lay off one week,with no vacation,sick leave,any kind of pay. I wonder where they would get their tax dollars. Hell, running a deficit doesn't appear to bother them.

Our forefathers broke the laws of King George but we call them Patriots today and back them King George called them criminals. But the guys with the biggest guns usually decide what laws are valid etc.

The King of France found out that money didn't always talk. The people got fed up with his BS and marched on Paris grabbed King Louie and his wife and put them to the Gillatine and off with their heads.

The South almost succeeded from this United States back in 1863 but failed to do so. But they sure tried for four long years.

Things can change if the people want things to change

Right now the price of gasoline has reached $2.26 a gallon here and oil is selling at $58 a barrel. Something will have to give soon or this country will not have a middle class much longer. Will will end up with a few kings and the rest of us will be SERFS.

[lakeman]

They seem to have a dislike for crank baits hitting the expensive boat seats and ripping holes in the upholstery

You would be surprised at the damage that so called "BASS MASTERS" cause on the lakefront. And on my pontoon, and crappy boat at my dock I do not have the expensive boat seats they have in them 20/30,000 dollar bass boats. Mass Ba$$turds (bass master wanna be's) are the scourge of the waterways, blasting by you while you are fishing, nearly swamping you, eroding the shorelines with their wake. Used to be the fishermen were in the slowest boats on the water, but these idiots need a 200HP motor to get to the next neck or cove. :D

[BeauxBeaux]

Amen lakeman, seems there is the same problem everywhere

[TAE73]

You would be surprised at the damage that so called "BASS MASTERS" cause on the lakefront. And on my pontoon, and crappy boat at my dock I do not have the expensive boat seats they have in them 20/30,000 dollar bass boats. Mass Ba$$turds (bass master wanna be's) are the scourge of the waterways, blasting by you while you are fishing, nearly swamping you, eroding the shorelines with their wake. Used to be the fishermen were in the slowest boats on the water, but these idiots need a 200HP motor to get to the next neck or cove. :D

I hate to tell ya, but a bass boat going at full tilt on the pad. Does not put out much of a wake. A boat going 20 and not trimmed up properly gives out alot more of a wake. Yes there are some of them that have no curtuisy to other fisherman. But its not just the bass fisherman its the crappie fisherman, skiers and those darn water fleas also. Some people do not have the curtiousy like they use too. And I am still young and wet behind the ears but I was raised better. And yes I do have a 200 on the back of my boat, but if there is someone else fishing in the same cove I will idle out past them then drop the hammer down. And the reason why I have the big motor is I would rather spend more time fishing than moving from spot to spot and to run as far away from the other boats on the water and go up the lake.

If you want to see damage to a lake, come on down in the summer to Lake of the Ozarks in Mid Missouri. I would rather see a 1000 bass boats instead of 1000 offshore boats going 80+. I am talking boats that have to be hauled in by semi's and then lifted off by a crane. Any boat under 20' is to small for this lake. I have seen a 30 foot scrab sink becuase of rough water on this lake.

[Moose1am]

You are absolutely right about a boat going fast and in good trim and on plane not making a big wake. It's when the boat is not trimmed right that it puts out a big wake. You see a boat going 10 mph with it's nose up high in the water and the back end sitting deep in the water and then you will see the biggest waves produced by that boat. You either go very slow or very fast to produce almost no wake. But those middle speeds are what produce the biggest wakes and those are the wakes that rock your world. Anyone that has spend time on the water will know this to be true.

But when a boat starts up and accelerated or comes into a bay and slows down it will produce a big wake and that wake can travel a long distance across the lake until it hits the shoreline or something to stop it.

[lebruce]

Hey all, I don't know if any of you ever came across or heard of this site before.This is a real interesting site for info ,check it out and let me know what you think. The National Rivers Website -- River law: