I spoke to rick the game officer that patrol's beaver and he said that they messed up writing the guide. and that the way it reads it can be misinterpeted. and because of all the confusion he was going to frankfort to talk to his captain's about getting something resolved on the issue.
but for the time being if he caught you idling your big motor he would only give you a warning the first time. after that then you would get a ticket the next time he caught you.
he never said anything about loading or unloading. I've always loaded my boat using the big motor.
back in 2003 I was on beaver and it started storming not real back but rain and lighting, so i fired up the motor and idled back got about 50 feet from the dock looked up and hear came that same game officer that talked to this past weekend by that time storm settled down a little. He came down and was going to give me ticket $200.00 at that time by the way.
Until I explained that a small storm had just came over and that I wasn't going to stay out there on a fiberglass boat holding a graphite rod while it was storming.
some of the other guys there told him that for a second that it was getting pretty nasty. so he didn't ticket me but told me that I could start my motor to load and unload only. but that once I got past the dock that I could get a ticket.
I brought that day up to this officer the other day and he remember it.
I also brought up about the survey that the game depart. did a couple years ago. and how it was funny that the online survey was for 9 different lakes and that if you voted to change 1 lake that the voted counted for all 9 lakes, that it wasn't set up so you could choose yes for this one and no for that one.
but the funny thing was 7 of the 9 got changed. He said that he felt that the old owners had something to do with it. telling the people that she knew that didn't it changed about the survey their at the dock and the online survey, but didn't tell the ones that she knew that wanted change.
And if they ever did another survey that he thought it wouls get changed. with the new guys there and the number of people that wanted change.
If I hear anything about the outcome of his meeting I'll post.
