Quote Originally Posted by Boatbottom View Post
Don't know what makes everthing legal but I do know I ran across a well marked trot line with my my main motor raised and tilted and it still hung the prop. The line was all the way across the channel and the water was less than two feet outside the channel. I know because I went around it going in and scraped bottom. Coming back I decided just to cross it between the jugs. I had no choice but to cut it to get loose. It couldn't have been more than twelve inches deep. How deep does it have to be to be legal.
I posted this incident in an attempt to show that sometimes stuff happens that wasn't intentional. I've never cut a marked line before and believe me, I didn't want to cut this one. Will I be more careful in the future, you bet. Did I error in thinking the line would be sunk at least a little... you bet. (The line had no baits and no weights) Next time I'll just turn around and go somewhere else. If I knew whose line it was I would be glad to compensate them. I would also ask them to be a little more considerate by weighting their line when it's in the navigable path.