Years ago when Hovey Lake had the 10 HP motor size limit I gave thought to painting the engine cover to say 10 HP instead of 35HP. But that plan died almost immediately as I'm not a good artist. LOL. But the thought did cross my mind a couple of times. So I was glad that the IDNR finally changed the rules and allowed people with gas motors of any size to fish Hovey's and other lakes in IN as long as they were going slower than the speed limits. It was said to me that it was much easier to enforce the motor size limit that the speed limits. And that I can agree with from the CO side of this discussion. I bet that the lake was much less utilized before they changed the rules. Most of the guys that I know that have boats have larger motors on them. A few have trolling motors on small john boats.Originally Posted by GeoFisher
Anyone who wants to go faster than a few mph is risking serious DAMAGE on Dogwood. IT is loaded and I mean LOADED with standing timber, and there are about 8 billion trees and stumps just under the surface.
I hit at least 10 this past Saturday.
On another note, I have a real good story about the 10hp limit of years ago........basically I almost lost my boat, ttruck and motor, for arguing with the DNR about how I didn't know my evenrude 9.9 was really evenrude 15 with a 9.9 cover
He basically told me if I ever showed up to that lake again with that 15hp motor, he'd take my boat, truck and motor......AND all my fishing equipment.
I promptly went out and purchased a 7.5 motor, which I used for about 10 years after that.
Later,
Geo
I wish that I could have purchased a smaller motor for my boat but I didn't really have a place to mount it as my boat was pretty smaller and narrow. Plus I only fished hard about two or three weeks a year. The rest of the time the boat was not used and covered up. But as I got older and moved closer to where I fish these days I started using the boat a lot.
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