Acton Lake

[Milky]

Was bank fishing at Acton yesterday and seen a few bassboats idling with their big motors. Just wanted to know if it's legal there. If so I want to take my big boat up there.

[Hillbilly910]

nothing over 10hp permited. Your not even legal to use a large motor to load/unload this year.

[Milky]

Thanks Hillbilly that's what I thought.

[Lou]

nothing over 10hp permited. Your not even legal to use a large motor to load/unload this year.

Oops, I violates the loading restriction. I was told it was alright to use larger motors to load boats in Ohio, but not in Indiana, bad information I guess.

[Hillbilly910]

there used to be a sign at Acton ramp indicating use of larger motors ok to load/unload.
Sign is gone, and rangers are advising to refrain from it(in otherwords, they can bust you if they feel like it, was told the fine is $150)
Suposedly, the sign was never supose to be put up, but it was.
Only trolling motor lake i fish in IN is whitewater memorial, and ive never heard of folks getting in trouble for power loading. But times due change.
Plenty of folks idle larger motors up and down lake at Acton...just rolling the dice on when or who is gonna get caught.

HB
P.s for refernce, its about 35-45 minutes troll to the lodge, and 1 hour to the dam for most boats, excluding massive winds/water movement.

[Lou]

there used to be a sign at Acton ramp indicating use of larger motors ok to load/unload.
Sign is gone, and rangers are advising to refrain from it(in otherwords, they can bust you if they feel like it, was told the fine is $150)
Suposedly, the sign was never supose to be put up, but it was.
Only trolling motor lake i fish in IN is whitewater memorial, and ive never heard of folks getting in trouble for power loading. But times due change.
Plenty of folks idle larger motors up and down lake at Acton...just rolling the dice on when or who is gonna get caught.

HB
P.s for refernce, its about 35-45 minutes troll to the lodge, and 1 hour to the dam for most boats, excluding massive winds/water movement.

I have a 70 LB thrust motor on boat that came with a 42 LB thrust motor, so I can move at a pretty good clip just on electric. I have not really gone directly to the lodge, or even timed myself to be honest though. I was told, and we know hearsay can be highly unreliable, that at Summit Lake they had a Bass Tournament and rangers using binoculars recorded the hull numbers of the boats that used their motors. When they went to do weigh-ins, they ticketed them.... Not sure if this is true or not.

[Osker]

Summit lake is unlimited horsepower, but all idle zone .

[Lou]

Summit lake is unlimited horsepower, but all idle zone .

That sounds right, when they were loading they were not at idle so they supposedly ticked them... I had forgotten we were talking about idle lakes, not trolling lakes.

[Hillbilly910]

24V at 70lbs thrust you'll reach the lodge closer to 25-35 minutes ideal conditions. The dam in roughly 45-50 minutes.(fished a few tourneys there, got the timing down to a science...LOL)
Those times are with the keel up(AKA your big motor trimmed), with it down its about 5 minutes longer.

I would not put the binocular ticketing past acton lake, although ive never heard of it.
Brookville lake the C/O's have night vision binocs.

Summit lake is an ice fishing destination for me, never been on the soft water there.

HB

[Lou]

24V at 70lbs thrust you'll reach the lodge closer to 25-35 minutes ideal conditions. The dam in roughly 45-50 minutes.(fished a few tourneys there, got the timing down to a science...LOL)
Those times are with the keel up(AKA your big motor trimmed), with it down its about 5 minutes longer.

I would not put the binocular ticketing past acton lake, although ive never heard of it.
Brookville lake the C/O's have night vision binocs.

Summit lake is an ice fishing destination for me, never been on the soft water there.

HB

I have heard nothing but bad about the C/O's at Brookville. A friend was telling me that twice they have come up on him at full speed, once they hit his boat, the other time he nearly fell in from their wake, pretty unprofessional if true. If I had the time, I'd tell them to request a supervisor on sceen just to see if supervision was ok with that kind of thing. Of course that invites a much closer level of inspection, so you had better have your $hit in one sock before you do something like that. I have never been to Summit, I have only heard about it.