Lakes requiring electric motors, is it illegal to have a gas motor on transom?
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Lakes requiring electric motors, is it illegal to have a gas motor on transom?
You should specify which lakes your are asking about. Different lakes have different rules.
usually, One in spg. mo.. has a motor restriction, and they adhere to it to the letter...
All MDC lakes under 70 acres specify electric motors only. Some city and county lakes over 70 acres with MDC cooperation have same rules. The lakes and regulations are listed under MDC. I had hoped to fish smaller lakes, but removing gas motor is not justifiable.
Well most don't care how big your outboard motor is. The restriction is that you can't USE that big motor. Even some of the lakes with restrictions will allow you to fire up your big motor just to trailer the boat, but while you are fishing it is electric only. The local agent is only a phone call away and you will get an official response(from the guy/girl with the ticket book!)
Most restrictions are USE not Presence of gas motor
I understand it as electric motor in use only. Just trim the big motor up and you shouldn't have any issues. But a quick call to the agent would be smart to just be sure.
Don't rely on us. Call the authorities that cover where you plan to fish. Have seen rules all over the board on this one. Some no motor period, some no run, some disabled as in no fuel line or tank in boat, some you can run to load some you can't. Best get this kind of info straight from the horses mouth not in ticket form because of misinformation.
Paid one of them tickets once running to load in Va.
Harrisonville, MO city lake makes you remove the prop from your gas motor. Just dumb, but Harrisonville has issues.
Easy now I grew up in that town.:yikesQuote:
Originally Posted by peculiarmike
See there you go some of the issue have already moved away:yikesQuote:
Originally Posted by Hogster1
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Originally Posted by got crappie
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by perchplucker
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmydee1
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.
One time on local conservation lake the wind started blowing so hard we couldn't get back to ramp with troller. It pushed us backwards. Husband started outboard and slowly putted across lake to ramp.
That's the appropriate way to do that. I doubt any agent would write a ticket in that situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by perchplucker
Thanks for your input in this thread. Can you tell me what Hazel Creek falls under? It is a 500 acre trolling motor only lake!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by MOfishmgr
Hazel Creek is a water supply lake for Kirksville. Many water supply lakes under 1000 acres do not allow gas motors to be used. those are by the City's request.Quote:
Originally Posted by TwainGang
Can anybody tell me if Watkins Mill has shad in it, if so is it legal to catch some with a throw net?