Thas right! Just $10.00 to pass a test that allows you to run a boat in the state for the rest of your life. How many of you
really believe that such a test is going to do anything positive to ensure safe boating? The results of this $10.00 test will be negligible, while over the course of time, the fee will continue to rise.
This is just another thinnly veiled excuse to raise money for a state government system that continues to waste & squander it! Remember all the things that were going to be done with our increased fishing license money? Remember the improvements to the warmwater fisheries program that were going to happen?
What have we got now? A suspension of the angling for LM bass at Banks with the suggestion that the state
might place a no wake zone bouy at the entrance to several areas and bays. Very recently an idea has surfaced that the state will impose this no wake zone over the entire area north and west of 1st line of dunes in the Potholes Reservoir, and throughout the Lind Coulee arm. Did the state happen to mention any effort to provide extra enforcement in these areas?
Currently there is a large effort underway at the Potholes to provide for stucture enhancement for the LM Bass poulation. That noteworthy project was under taken by the Meeseburg family. It appears to have quite a bit of merit and just makes good sense to anyone who has researched it. The last time I checked, the Meeseburgs didn't have the power to levy fees or taxes upon the general boating or fishing public.
Thats my rant, and I'll continue to voice it!
Smitty
Damn right I'm mad about this!
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