Wondering what size a lake has to be for no wake rules, is their a number of acres it needs to be?
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Wondering what size a lake has to be for no wake rules, is their a number of acres it needs to be?
No wake rules don't apply in this state.
Idle zones mean no wake. See what happens in the idle zone of Monroe when your making a wake in front of DNR.
So, no matter how small the lake, you can run your boat as fast as you want?http://www.crappie.com/crappie/image...atchhed%20.gif
Depends on the make of the boat. No wake means you can only run the boat slowly making no waves or wake. Maybe no more than a couple of mph or idle speed depending on the hull of the boat. An idle zone means you can make no wake. How small of a lake are you thinking?
Some small lakes have hp restrictions, some are electric only. I was on a small lake today (200ac) and it was run what you brung. Idiots in high dollar bass boats running 70mph across the lake only to get on plane and have to get right back out of the throttle.
The reason for asking, we are moving to Indiana, my brother was thinking any lake of a certain size or smaller was 10 mph or no wake. Bouncer, I know what you mean, just because some have the dollars to buy it, it don't mean they have the common sense to run it!
Some of the lakes have no wake zones, and many lakes in the north part of the state have a 10mph speed limit. Most will be marked. Some of the state run lakes, like shock lake, are electric motor only. Some like beaver dam have unlimited speed during part of the day, and the rest it is 10mph.Quote:
Originally Posted by flytier
Also there is a night time speed limit on all lakes in all areas.
yes 10mph after dark all lakes.
Search Ind. Code § 14-15-3-17 : Indiana Code - Section 14-15-3-17: Minimum distance from shore lines
(a) A person operating a motorboat may not approach or pass within two hundred (200) feet of the shore line of a lake or channel of the lake at a place or point where the lake or channel is at least five hundred (500) feet in width, except for the purpose of trolling or for the purpose of approaching or leaving a dock, pier, or wharf or the shore of the lake or channel.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (c), a person operating a motorboat may not approach or pass within two hundred (200) feet of the shore line of a lake or channel of the lake at a speed greater than idle speed.
(c) This subsection applies to lakes formed by hydroelectric dams in a county having a population of:
(1) more than twenty-five thousand (25,000) but less than twenty-five thousand five hundred (25,500); or
(2) more than twenty thousand (20,000) but less than twenty thousand three hundred (20,300).
A person operating a motorboat may not approach or pass within fifty (50) feet of the shore line at a speed greater than idle speed. However, on tributaries of lakes described in this subsection that are formed by hydroelectric dams, a person operating a motor boat may not approach or pass within two hundred (200) feet of the shore line of the tributary at a speed greater than idle speed. For the purposes of this chapter, tributaries on lakes formed by hydroelectric dams do not include the principal body of water flowing into the lakes.