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.
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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.
nothing over 10hp permited. Your not even legal to use a large motor to load/unload this year.
Thanks Hillbilly that's what I thought.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by 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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hillbilly910
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Osker
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hillbilly910
The C/O's around here i feel do their job very well. Have honestly never heard any complaints other than from folks who got ticketed, but thats kinda of a given.
The guy who was telling me claimed they did not ticket him, they were just unprofessional, but we all know about opinions.... Plus it may be something like the license plate thing. The Sheriffs Deputies know from plate numbers what county you are from. Ticket someone from your own county, it could backfire politically, from another county, who cares, let em cry. This guy was from Ohio with Ohio registration numbers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hillbilly910
I got a BS ticket from an Ohio Trooper once, I had seen he and his friend on a Ohio TV network a few weeks earlier. They were talking trash about a branch of the service I had been in, they were from another. LEO's generally do not ticket LEO's unless it's a DUI or something serious, but this was something I would have let anyone go with a warning, unless they got belligerent, or tried to lie and said they did not do it. So anyway, I had a sticker and he knew I was from the branch he was trash talking. I nearly called for a supervisor, but thought his buddy might also be his supervisor, I just ate the stupid ticket.
The end of the story was that I was in that part of the state to make a purchase. To this day I will not spend a dime in a business in that part of the state as his wife, parents, or some other acquaintance might benefit from it, so he screwed his community by being an A.H. and if it's true about the Brookville C/O's the same will happen to some degree there. Being a P.O.S. never pays benefits IME.
I once, at Cowan, was amazed seeing someone with a big motor passing by. After he passed, I was able to see that he had a kicker motor set up in tandem so that he could use the steering wheel to turn it... Some of those might have been so equipped. Also, some after running their trolling battery dead might use the motor rather than switching batteries, or like me, they may have a 24V motor and not be able to swap out batteries, so some of them may not have had much of a choice. Of course they all could have just decided to blow off the law and drive with their big motors...Quote:
Originally Posted by Milky