friend got a ticket

[GeoFisher]

I got a ticket in Indiana once that I don't believe I deserved..........It was dusk, plenty of light out, but the sun was going down..........

I would NOT have been using headlights or ANY other light, since there was still plenty of ambient light outside.

Well, when I got to the ramp, I loaded up my boat, etc, etc, and the CO started doing his business..........he checked my live wells, check my license, check my extinguisher, checked my life preservers.............and then WROTE me a ticket for operating after dusk. I bitched about it for a few minutes with him..........He told me DUSK to DAWN was defined in Indianapolis, and I was in violation........

I pointed out across the water, to a boat across the lake MOVING and said does he have is lights on or off........obviously he could NOT tell......

He told me it didn't matter, but he could tell I was operating without lights, when I pulled up to the ramp........

He was a TOTAL BUTTHOLE...........I paid the ticket.........BUT I also discussed this in DETAIL with INDNR in Indianapolis.......

Later,

Geo

[HiDefFisherman]

He was a TOTAL BUTTHOLE...........I paid the ticket.........BUT I also discussed this in DETAIL with INDNR in Indianapolis.......

Later,

Geo

Hey Geo,

At least he wasn't a smart a.. back side. Being a fisherman, and one that also has exceed the posted speed limit a time or two, and probably still do...LOL.. you know the old joke. Well it happened to me once... fortunately only once.. the cop says to me "hey, you're a fisherman, you don't catch them all either do you?"

Salt in the open cut sure does cause extra pain...LOL but let's me chuckle later in life. Man, gotta live a long time to chuckle at my screw ups now... LOL

Tight lines,

HDF

[sglass]

A few years back my uncle and I were fishing a tourney at Herrington. We were way back in the river running just fast enough for the front end to settle down when we almost hit a large dock that had came loose from the bank. If it had not been for our headlights we would have hit it head on. I would gladly take a ticket for running with headlights or a spotlight at 3AM. I hardly ever see anyone fishing with thier boat lights on while bank fishing after night. Most of us are guilty of that including me. If a boat comes hauling down the lake I will turn em on but I do not leave them on all night.