Bad News from Indiana

[bkehl]

First of all, that Bill in the General Assembly (H.B.1349) that deals with fenced Hunting (bad) and gives Veterans Lifetime License (good) is out of the House and is in the Senate Comittee ( Rules and Legislative Procedure)and has had it's first reading.

Secondly my friends to the south, if you fish or boat on lakes like Patoka and other state run lakes, you will need to purchase a $20.00 DNR Lake Permit! There are NO daily fees only the Annual Lake Permit. Rivers and Streams excluded.

It's their way of cost cutting, DNR claims that the cost of having someone at the Ramps to collect money is costing to much. The only ones I see working at those ramps (weekends only)are retirees and College kids working for minimun wage. This Permit must be on your boat, you can bet they will be watching!! Trust me, they love to write those tickets!!!
Sorry for this bad news.
BKehl

[Moose1am]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Feb-11-06 AT 03:41PM (EST)[/font][p]Here is a link to the IN DNR Web Site. Check out the upper right hand part of this web page for the link to the EXPLAINATION of the new Indiana Lake Permit Requirements. This is an Adobe Reader PDF file so you should get the free Adobe Reader software so that you can read this file.

http://www.ai.org/dnr/



Regards,

Moose1am

[skee53]

Thanks For the update Bill. I'll keep watching to see if it passes.
I heard about the lake permits. I don't mind it on my bass boat, but I have a little John, I fish small local lakes with, and I only use it 3 or 4 times a year. It only has a little trolling motor on it and I think paying $20.00 for this one is a bit much. But I support the resource, so I guess I'll be shucking out the forty bucks. Maybe the extra $20.00 will keep half of the Louisville traffic off Patoka so we Hoosiers can fish it now.

[Lee]

Here's an idea...Hoosiers stay in Indiana and we will stay in Kentucky. How's that suit you????

[skeeter175]

So does that mean when our club fishes Brookville Lake in In. we will have to have a 20.00 permit in addition to the fishing license. We are mostly buckeyes and a few from Ky.

[Moose1am]

Short Answer is yes. I read that they may be selling these at the gates to the reseviors early in the year. This is new and I am sure that there are some bugs that will have ot be worked out.

Check out the www.fishin.com IN forum for more details on this and the link to the IN DNR web site that explains this new Lake Permit System. It's only required on certain lakes and reserviours. The Ohio River and some of the F&W areas are exempt from this Lake Permit

DNR Conservation Offices (CO) will be enforcing this new regulation. I have no idea what the cost will be if you get fined for not having the Permit on your boat. I do know that I got a 70 dollar ticket once for not having my boat registered.

And Hoosiers will still have to have their boat registered each year.

Regards,

Moose1am

[bkehl]

Brookville is one of the Lakes that requires this permit.

[opie13]

I don't guess that there will be to many of us from Kentucky that will be buying a license to fish in Indiana anymore. At least not to fish on the lakes.

[HoosierDon]

Can't imagine why anyone from Ky would want to come to In to fish........

[Fishhead]

Its going to keep more of the pleasure boaters who only go out 2-3 times a year off the water there and put them on the river. I think T's with under 15 boats can still fish it, but 15 and over must get the permit.

I buy the yearly pass every year anyway, btw B-ville has some of the best fishing and the largest watershed within 50 minutes of NKY, 5000acres and 50 minutes from garage to ramp for me. Starting end of May early June I fish there nearly every weekend and some weeknights. When summer hit you will find me on B-ville every Friday night from 9pm to 10am Sat., then again on Sat night if I'm up to it, It can be awesome!

The weeds are growing fast in B-ville and spreading fast, Zebra mussels are clearing the water even more. Last year there was at least 3 times as much weedbeds as the year before, hopefully it will spread as much this year again. If they don't do something stupid like try to kill off the weeds for the play babies there could be some fantastic SM & LM fishing there in the next 2-5 years. As it is I caught a lot of quality LM & SM from B-ville the last 4 years, biggest SM at B-ville so far at 5-10 and LM at 6-14. good lake to fish, if you do your homework and spend the time to learn it.

In a few years it could peak similar to KY Lake when the weeds really came up there in the late 80's early 90's. Remember when BASS fished KY Lake and Rick Clunn won with that huge bag of SM he caught on suspending jerks? If they don't do something stupid like try to kill off the weeds for the play babies there could be some fantastic SM & LM fishing there in the next 2-5 years.

[toby]

Where is this lake? I live in NKY and have never heard of it.

[Fishhead]

Take 74 west, get off at the 1st Brookville exit, I think its either Rt 52 or 1 north. Anyways, follow that right up through downtown Brookville. go past the town, go straight through all the lights and keep going. You'll see all the different state park signs for ramps, camping, etc. Its almost exactly 45 minutes from the 275 Bridge at lawrencburg to the Bonwell ramp.