[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Feb-10-06 AT 07:32PM (EST)[/font][p]Hello All,

The boat registration is still a yearly requirement, just like a vehicle, so I don't under stand what crappie was talking about having multiple vehicles. If you had multiple boats, they still have to be registered to put them on the water.

The boat ramp permit is ok with me. I will probably go out some more now that it is a set fee.

Basically though, I have given up on the IDNR as a management force. They point to fisheries such as Eagle Creek as having great creel rates for bass, yet that is a 10hp lake, set up for small craft.

Indiana is the smallest state west of the Appalachian Mountains, we just don't have the water that other states have. The anglers have the lake from April to end of May, and in the fall. That is when we can get our monies worth.

We are really getting squeezed by taxes in Indiana. I am thinking about moving out of Vigo County over to Clay County because Vigo keeps raising taxes, and coming up with new ones.

We have nice paved roads out in the county now though. I don't know why we need them, but a lot of the county roads are two laned asphalt highways, do to the "temporary" wheel tax imposed 6 years ago. The wheel tax was supposed to last 2 years, LOL.
Last year, they tacked on a 1.5% income tax too. It never ends.