Lake MacBride Legislation to change to No Wake

I live near Lake McBride in Linn County but in the last few years, I have become increasingly disappointed that I am unable to utilize the resource except on a limited basis due to the 10 hp motor restriction during the summer months.

I would like to see the regulations changed to a year round no wake rule. It is obvious that the no wake rule when in effect during part of the year is not causing problems on the lake. In addition, recent improvements to the lake by the DNR have improved the fishery and will also improve the Lake MacBrides’ ability to deal with any increase in usage by the people that paid for the improvements.

The NO WAKE regulation is an effective management tool in many smaller bodies of water in the state. It is way past time to make the change on Lake MacBride.

A bill proposal to change the law is currently in committee. This committee is charged with bringing the bill to the General Assembly for consideration.
If you are interested in this proposed legislation, please send a note expressing your support to the following committee members;

>Senator Hubert Houser [email protected]
>Senator Ron Wieck (R). [email protected]
>Senator Steve Kettering (R) [email protected]
>Senator Joe Seng (D). [email protected]

We would appreciate any support the members of Fish the River can provide in this matter.

Thanks for your help:
Joe Carpenter
Dan Jarosh (Jardan)

Must not be many Iowa people on here lately? I was hoping to get some support for this on FTR. Try just one time to get BTT. Thanks for your consideration.

chitwood- there was a lot of support last year for something like this- several members of ftr signed a petition- but the better place to post is fish the lake- there is an “iowa lakes” section. I grew up fishing mcbride and at the time was a big fan of the 10 horse rule (I had a flat bottom with an 8 horse), but as my toys have grown I too would love to see no wake all year. Thanks, and try fish the lake.

ah geeze, now i’ll never be able to sell my 9.9!:). i was hoping to sell it to one of the pontoons–the bad thing is that the regulation enforcement is lax on that lake,mostly due to cutbacks i suppose. There will be many violaters when the big motors go on the pontoons, although it shouldnt reach the craziness of coraville,there are many who just dont understand or worse, care.–the new improvements will sure help erosion,but heavy waves will take a toll on banks still not riprapped. I havent been back out on it since the new structure was placed-been a different part of the country, but i watched them build the structure, it should be a jewel by this time—funny thing-the structure seems to have set up some sort of walleye movement pattern-often times my dad and cronies can now catch walleye off points easily accessed by car–if theres two poles with nightcrawlers(they only fish with daylongdead smelly minnows for catfish) then sometimes they will catch two walleye,its happened several times-my dad has bank fished that lake for 40 years, its never happened before–i admittedly am extrapolating what walleye behavior is here, but it is interesting, and Macbride is now a small but really neat walleye lake-i know a few who hate the fact they lost the bass habitat around the laydowns – they redeveloped a comparative few to what was there, but lost hundreds to the riprap development-i recon in the long run it will be good again as they continue developing bass habitat!
i suppose a making examples out of violators quickly would shut down the “wakemakers”, but folks pay attention to whats going out on that little lake, they know how few enforcement folks are there from year to year due to the scrutiny and exposure by the media-if it passes, i suppose it will be wait and see–also, i wonder, will macbride one day have a slot limit,or lesser limit when all the locals start consistently hammering the walleye with good walleye boats and methods-that is not a critical or the “sky is falling” comment, just wondering
good fishin