10-16-2010, 10:03 PM
[quote TubeDude][cool][#0000ff]MOST of the power squadron...but not all of the idiots. ................[/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]First it was tinboat trollers. Then it was a boat full of wet suited water skiers on the way out to run the banks on the other side...where other anglers were fishing. Then it was a diver who anchored up, went over the side and started diving near where I was fishing. All that on a huge lake with lots of room, but they all had to come look at the wacko in the float tube with a lot of rods and a motor. And amazingly almost every one of these dimbulbs motored between me and the shoreline I was fishing. Is there a boating rule I don't know about that makes it illegal to go around a tuber fishing along a shoreline?[/#0000ff][/quote]
[#ff4040][cool]From Utah State Parks Boating Laws and Rules April 2009
(10) The operator of any vessel may not exceed a wakeless speed when:
(a) Within 150 feet of:
(i) Another vessel;
(ii) A person in or floating on the water;
(iii) A water skier being towed by another boat;
(iv) A water skier that had been towed behind the operator’s vessel
unless the skier is still surfing or riding in an upright stance on the wake
created by the vessel;
(v) A water skier that had been towed behind another vessel and the
skier is still surfing or;
(vi) A shore fisherman;
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(vii) A launching ramp;
(viii) A dock; or
(ix) A designated swimming area; or
(b) In an area designated as a wakeless speed area.
(11) The operator of a motorboat is responsible for any damage or injury caused by
the wake produced by the operator’s motorboat.
[/#ff4040][cool][#4040ff]So if they're wakeless, they're within the law it looks like. Ain't no different in Idaho. Buy a boat, add water and a certain percentage become a-holes.[/#4040ff] [#4040ff]And with the state population growing, it's not going to get better. [/#4040ff]
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[#0000ff]First it was tinboat trollers. Then it was a boat full of wet suited water skiers on the way out to run the banks on the other side...where other anglers were fishing. Then it was a diver who anchored up, went over the side and started diving near where I was fishing. All that on a huge lake with lots of room, but they all had to come look at the wacko in the float tube with a lot of rods and a motor. And amazingly almost every one of these dimbulbs motored between me and the shoreline I was fishing. Is there a boating rule I don't know about that makes it illegal to go around a tuber fishing along a shoreline?[/#0000ff][/quote]
[#ff4040][cool]From Utah State Parks Boating Laws and Rules April 2009
(10) The operator of any vessel may not exceed a wakeless speed when:
(a) Within 150 feet of:
(i) Another vessel;
(ii) A person in or floating on the water;
(iii) A water skier being towed by another boat;
(iv) A water skier that had been towed behind the operator’s vessel
unless the skier is still surfing or riding in an upright stance on the wake
created by the vessel;
(v) A water skier that had been towed behind another vessel and the
skier is still surfing or;
(vi) A shore fisherman;
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(vii) A launching ramp;
(viii) A dock; or
(ix) A designated swimming area; or
(b) In an area designated as a wakeless speed area.
(11) The operator of a motorboat is responsible for any damage or injury caused by
the wake produced by the operator’s motorboat.
[/#ff4040][cool][#4040ff]So if they're wakeless, they're within the law it looks like. Ain't no different in Idaho. Buy a boat, add water and a certain percentage become a-holes.[/#4040ff] [#4040ff]And with the state population growing, it's not going to get better. [/#4040ff]
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