04-18-2007, 12:34 AM
Hi FG I am in full agreement that some of if not most of the regs for tooners (or tubers in certain instances) are absurd! I haven't kept a tow rope on my toon in the past but now have one. Not because I was told to but because I needed it. Also it just good common sense. I don't know what I would or could bail on my toon. Maybe a pocket, but I don't think that would endanger my safety. I also object to even having to license it if I put a trolling motor on it. I have not personally been tagged over no float cushion myself. I kept one with my tube as a PFD (before the rule change) and used it as a portable coffee table. It was a great place to set and eat your lunch. I attached a line to it and let it float alongside me.
All I was trying to say is that they are trying to make all of us fit a cookie cutter image. Heck no 2 toons are alike. You have the itty bitty to the monster 4 fiaherman model. But they are both charged the same fee for licensings. Thats the real reason I haven't put a trolling motor on mine. I just feel ripped off by the govt. If I left a serious foot print on mother nature I could understand the fees. But I don't me and my craft tread lightly. I wuld like my mother to be there for my grand and great grandchildern. I pay to enter and use most of the places I fish, state or private, I have NEVER complained about this. And here I could go on a rant over the govt charged fees. Bottom line for me is, we are over regulated, over taxed, over governed. by a bunch of lazy gutless legislatures who have nothing better to do than burden the public. They should be dealing with the issues of our day. Wait I'm jumping off this soap box now. Geeeez I didn't mean to rant. Pardon me.
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All I was trying to say is that they are trying to make all of us fit a cookie cutter image. Heck no 2 toons are alike. You have the itty bitty to the monster 4 fiaherman model. But they are both charged the same fee for licensings. Thats the real reason I haven't put a trolling motor on mine. I just feel ripped off by the govt. If I left a serious foot print on mother nature I could understand the fees. But I don't me and my craft tread lightly. I wuld like my mother to be there for my grand and great grandchildern. I pay to enter and use most of the places I fish, state or private, I have NEVER complained about this. And here I could go on a rant over the govt charged fees. Bottom line for me is, we are over regulated, over taxed, over governed. by a bunch of lazy gutless legislatures who have nothing better to do than burden the public. They should be dealing with the issues of our day. Wait I'm jumping off this soap box now. Geeeez I didn't mean to rant. Pardon me.
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