Satellites--- CUI?

[wheels70]

On a side note I hope you sprayed your boat down for Zebra Muscles... That stuff scares me right there. I think the days of being able to fish 2 lakes in one day are over...

I have to agree 100%. The spread of invasive species is getting out of hand and a good percentage of this spread is caused by careless boaters/fishermen. As I stated in an earlier post, it is not about what is "legal" or what is "breaking the law", it is about a collective effort and common sense.
We all want to be able to fish our "home" waters with some level of success, once an invasive species is introduced and populates, our fishery will rapidly decline, just like those that have been invaded previously. Once the invasion occurs every swinging dick that ever fished that impoundment will be crying bloody murder because somehow their lake became infected and it obviously was not their fault, it was someone else's fault.

We all need to take precautions when we fish two lakes in the same day! I live 9 miles from Pomona lake but normally fish Melvern. I have on occasion went from one lake to the other in the same day or next day. I always clean my boat and trailer as well as my livewell before putting in at the next lake. Hells bells I went to Milford (which is known to have zebra mussels) and wanted to go to pomona two days later and did not go simply because my bunks were still wet and my livewells still had residual water in them. I did not have access to hot water or bleach at that time so I did not put my boat in Pomona.

After all is said and done it is about responsibility. No one wants to take responsibility for their own actions. No one wants to think the rules apply to them because they choose to interpret the rules to fit their own situation. It is the guy who thinks littering is bad but just this once I am going to throw my beer can out because I don't want to get caught with it if I get pulled over. Yes I am talking about the guy who thinks the rules are for everyone else but do not apply to them because of their "particular situation at that time". It is the same thing with the whole bait issue or washing you boat before you put it in another body of water. If you do not have the resources or ability to properly clean the boat then you must stay out of the water for at LEAST 5 days according to the KDWP regulations.

It just seems common sense to me that we ALL take precautions to at least do our part in preventing the spread of invasive species. It is not and ass chewing, it is someone concerned with the prosperity of the waters in which we all fish.

Take this with a grain of salt. It is just my opinion and as far as I know it is still legal to provide opinions,,,,,


Keith

[Fish Taxi]

I think there is a lot of truth in what you said there, Keith. Good food for thought.

To whoever said they were worried about the bleach water on their boat... My boat gets hosed down with it all the time over at Wabaunsee because that's just how they do it over there. They get a little crazy in the Kansas wind and often get bleach water on the carpet, the cover, and all sorts of places that couldn't possibly contain zebra mussels especially since the boat has been parked in the driveway... Fortunately all that stuff is synthetic and despite the frequent bleachings, I have not seen any damage whatsoever. All the metal parts of the boat and trailer go in the lake right away, so it gets rinsed off and I don't have to worry about any corrosion problems from the bleach on the metal either. So just saying, the bleach water isn't really that big of a deal.

[HairyVetch]

On topic my GPS does this from time to time where it will not pick up a signal or it will be way off on the map. It has happened at Melvern and Clinton. Maybe someone around here is testing some type of GPS distortion weapon???

[Fish Taxi]

On topic my GPS does this from time to time where it will not pick up a signal or it will be way off on the map. It has happened at Melvern and Clinton. Maybe someone around here is testing some type of GPS distortion weapon???

Maybe it's the fish. Sure, it would be difficult to build an electronic device underwater, without opposable thumbs, but... just maybe........ Rofl