No fishing boats in Michigan

[Michigander]

1 hour ago, Siebert Outdoors said:

Thats crazy.  I've seen more people piled on a sail boat then ever on a bass boat up on St Clair.

Sure, but sailboats with a motor are banned too.

[12poundbass]

[A-Jay]

 

 

 

Funny & Pathetic at the same time . . . 

A-Jay

[Cgrinder]

Very sad but probably for the best. Kensington Metro has been hoppin' lately.

[MGF]

On 4/13/2020 at 12:40 PM, Scott F said:

The point of keeping motor boats off the water is to keep people at home and not traveling all over the state pulling a boat or coming from another state to continue the spread of the virus.

I live by a popular river and we get canoes, kayaks and tubers from all over. There are two canoe/tube rental outfits within 5 or 10 minutes of my house. I don't know what kind of business they'll do this year but one of them buses people down from Chicago by the hundreds (3 or 4 buses at a time) to float the river in tubes.

 

Locals get together in large groups and float the river towing coolers and such. These tubes are often tied or held together forming a large mass of scantily clad drunks. LOL

 

So it's motors that need to be banned? It looks like there's more traveling of tubers and paddlers.

 

Thankfully, I'm not in Michigan so I can use my boat. mostly because of weather and water conditions, I haven't been out much yet but I'm looking forward to it.

 

Look, the virus might kill me or I might go broke and starve. In the mean time, I'm going to continue living as well as I can. At the stage of life I'm in, there's no sense in putting anything off. LOL so I'm going fishing.

 

I'm old enough to know better than to try to apply logic to what government does. It just can't be done. It's like looking for a penny in the corner of a round room.

[nascar2428]

Quick update, no actual language in executive order or law passed banning the specific use of motorboats or jet skis. DNR has not responded to my request for a clarification. 

[Cgrinder]

I would not be surprised if the ban on anything that requires lining up at a boat launch came straight from the DNR. The press release about them closing the Tippy Dam area had a "this is why we can't have nice things" vibe to it.

 

Here's hoping for a return to normalcy soon. Stay safe out there.

[Wildbillb]

Go get ' boys it's open again.  She changed her mind