TOTAL disregard for AIS laws!!!

  • basseyes
    Posts: 2493
    August 17, 2016 at 10:40 am #1634544
    Walleyestudent Andy Cox wrote:

    <div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>eyeman54 wrote:</div>
    I don’t see why there is so much bickering over this topic. Trailer your boat, pull the plug, open the wells (put fish on ice for longer transport), take the weeds off the trailer, and homeward bound. Easy

    If only it was that easy. To Steve’s point…you could complete all of the steps you say and still not be in compliance. Without high pressure washers and other sterilizing equipment at the landing, you will never be able to remove every weed fragment or water still pooled down in the bilge. Trying to comply does not qualify as being in full compliance. So that really is just how silly this all is. whistling

    X2!

    I’m probably one of the most picky guys I know about adhering to cleaning my boat at an access. Like Steve said, you will never be in full compliance. Befriend a CO and have an actual conversation with them about it. I could find a weed or something on any boat, leaving just about any rig, leaving 90% plus bodies of water in Minnesota right now, even after cleaned.

    As far as spreading, watch a carpeted bunk trailer go in to a weedy launch.

    How do you remove the weeds caught between the bunk and the boat, even with a power washer?

    I’m not trying to argue the law with that question. Or bicker over points of view on ais. I’m just looking for a factual discussion on the practicality of how is that done?

    biggill
    East Bethel, MN
    Posts: 11321
    August 17, 2016 at 1:02 pm #1634561

    The bottom line is that we all have a very similar opinion about AIS laws. The water transport law is nearly impossible to abide by. I agree.

    The beef I have with this thread is that disregard for AIS laws is ok. It’s not.

    The other problem I have is that much of this conversation kind of disregards one of the unwritten rules of good sportsman. That is “leave no trace”. While many of us will cleanup after other pigs who leave garbage behind, I don’t understand why cleaning your boat trailer of weeds and draining lake water in bilge and wells is too much to ask.

    DaveB
    Inver Grove Heights MN
    Posts: 4449
    August 17, 2016 at 1:09 pm #1634564

    Until we check all them Mexicans walking across the board for zebra mussels and other AIS, the problem will never be solved. Same with the Canadians.

    blank
    Posts: 1767
    August 17, 2016 at 1:26 pm #1634571
    biggill wrote:

    The bottom line is that we all have a very similar opinion about AIS laws. The water transport law is nearly impossible to abide by. I agree.

    The beef I have with this thread is that disregard for AIS laws is ok. It’s not.

    The other problem I have is that much of this conversation kind of disregards one of the unwritten rules of good sportsman. That is “leave no trace”. While many of us will cleanup after other pigs who leave garbage behind, I don’t understand why cleaning your boat trailer of weeds and draining lake water in bilge and wells is too much to ask.

    applause toast

    carroll58
    Twin Cities, USA
    Posts: 2094
    August 17, 2016 at 1:27 pm #1634572

    Call C.O. or Sheriff, giving descriptions and then take photo’s to turn in for evidence.

    Be careful photographing, some may not like it and may be armed

    Walleyestudent Andy Cox
    Garrison MN-Mille Lacs
    Posts: 4484
    August 17, 2016 at 2:23 pm #1634584
    biggill wrote:

    The other problem I have is that much of this conversation kind of disregards one of the unwritten rules of good sportsman. That is “leave no trace”. While many of us will cleanup after other pigs who leave garbage behind, I don’t understand why cleaning your boat trailer of weeds and draining lake water in bilge and wells is too much to ask.

    I think most of us that have posted here have admitted that they do in fact make viable attempts to comply. I haven’t heard any that willfully disregards the law. But I agree, enough is enough…everybody

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    john23
    St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 2578
    August 17, 2016 at 6:54 pm #1634609
    biggill wrote:

    The bottom line is that we all have a very similar opinion about AIS laws. The water transport law is nearly impossible to abide by. I agree.

    The beef I have with this thread is that disregard for AIS laws is ok. It’s not.

    The other problem I have is that much of this conversation kind of disregards one of the unwritten rules of good sportsman. That is “leave no trace”. While many of us will cleanup after other pigs who leave garbage behind, I don’t understand why cleaning your boat trailer of weeds and draining lake water in bilge and wells is too much to ask.

    This!

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    August 17, 2016 at 10:37 pm #1634620

    Walleyes are on fire on hah P2.

    biggill
    East Bethel, MN
    Posts: 11321
    August 18, 2016 at 6:34 am #1634631

    Mille Lacs too. coffee

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