05-21-2009, 04:48 AM
I have often wanted to get a remote controlled hellicopter to take my line and drop it where I cant cast from shore.
now how cool would that be? [cool]
the question is, is it legal?
I can not answer that for you, how ever, I can say that if you open up the rule book and read legal methods of fishing. You could vary easily end up with a ticket, and one would have to ask, is it worth your time, lost hours at work, lost income to challange the issue?
Will Mike Cox "Michigan's leading Prosicuting Attourney - Michigan Attourney General" be the one prosicuting you, "NOT LIKELY"
You will end up facing a local circut judge should receive a ticket who will open up the rule book and look at legal methods of fishing for the state of michigan and not see remote controlled bobbers as a leagle method and quite easily say, Pay the fine or take it to a higher court....
Can I say for a fact you will or will not receive a ticket, no, I can not, but any state officer can throw up the challange at any time, confiscate your boat, "it dose look like a toy or a boat"
Personaly I like the remote controlled boats, a whole lot more than those crash-um up cars... If I had a spare 250-2500 bucks to toss around, I would have one...
now if they took out the high profile and cut out the boat look and made it look like a planer board insted of a toy there may be a little more validity to the claim.
all said and done, I could be wrong, but intill it is in print as a legal method of fishing, it is open for enturpitatioin of local courts and local concervation officers...
Rember, the michigan attourney gennerals job is not to inturpet the law, it is his job to inforce the law as it is handed down to him by the law makers. "IE senant and congress, and in the case of michigan's fishing rules and regs, Michigans DNR has been given the full rights make rules to set seasons to manage wild game, fish, "except migritory birds"
so to me, is it legal? Common sence would dictate no... that is untill I see it in writeing in the michigan rule book.
for instance, michigan has just recently passed the drop shotting method as a legal method of fishing, "with exception, it can not be used in moving waters such as rivers... I mean Duh !!! "drop shotting was developed for fishing in rivers. It is pointless to use the drop shotting method unless you are in a river or on a moving boat...
the best way to find out if it is a legal method of fishing is to take it out to a designated trout stream [shocked][:p]
the debate is still open, jump in with your oppinion...
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now how cool would that be? [cool]
the question is, is it legal?
I can not answer that for you, how ever, I can say that if you open up the rule book and read legal methods of fishing. You could vary easily end up with a ticket, and one would have to ask, is it worth your time, lost hours at work, lost income to challange the issue?
Will Mike Cox "Michigan's leading Prosicuting Attourney - Michigan Attourney General" be the one prosicuting you, "NOT LIKELY"
You will end up facing a local circut judge should receive a ticket who will open up the rule book and look at legal methods of fishing for the state of michigan and not see remote controlled bobbers as a leagle method and quite easily say, Pay the fine or take it to a higher court....
Can I say for a fact you will or will not receive a ticket, no, I can not, but any state officer can throw up the challange at any time, confiscate your boat, "it dose look like a toy or a boat"
Personaly I like the remote controlled boats, a whole lot more than those crash-um up cars... If I had a spare 250-2500 bucks to toss around, I would have one...
now if they took out the high profile and cut out the boat look and made it look like a planer board insted of a toy there may be a little more validity to the claim.
all said and done, I could be wrong, but intill it is in print as a legal method of fishing, it is open for enturpitatioin of local courts and local concervation officers...
Rember, the michigan attourney gennerals job is not to inturpet the law, it is his job to inforce the law as it is handed down to him by the law makers. "IE senant and congress, and in the case of michigan's fishing rules and regs, Michigans DNR has been given the full rights make rules to set seasons to manage wild game, fish, "except migritory birds"
so to me, is it legal? Common sence would dictate no... that is untill I see it in writeing in the michigan rule book.
for instance, michigan has just recently passed the drop shotting method as a legal method of fishing, "with exception, it can not be used in moving waters such as rivers... I mean Duh !!! "drop shotting was developed for fishing in rivers. It is pointless to use the drop shotting method unless you are in a river or on a moving boat...
the best way to find out if it is a legal method of fishing is to take it out to a designated trout stream [shocked][:p]
the debate is still open, jump in with your oppinion...
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