I heard they were hitting on the Utah side. Where were you fishing? I assume somewhere on the Wyo side due to the colonoscopy comment. How deep were you?
We were fishing around Anvil. In the morning the kokes were about 10 feet down, going to as deep as 70 feet in the middle of the day. That was a little surprising to me. The fish were all tightly schooled and when we would get one hit, we'd get 2, 3, or 4 at once. But, if you were 10 feet off to the side of the school, you got nothing.
Could you explain the "Wyoming colonoscopy". I can only guess it has something to do with money.
Keith
The multiple redundant inspections where they force me to drop my lower unit because I drove from Lucerne to Anvil on the road.
If this is true,and the OP is whining about paying more for the AIS sticker and the inspection.Then DON'T fish in Wyoming waters,no one is forcing you to fish on our side of the gorge.When is Utah going to wise up and start inspections for mussels on the Utah side of the gorge?
Propnut, I have had a lot of respect for you for the time I've been on this forum. Honestly, I would expect a little bit more from you. I wasn't whining about the sticker. I don't even have a problem with an inspection. But, when you launch in the same water at Lucerne that you do at Anvil, both the money and the checks are a waste of the money we are contributing to keep the mussels out of the lake.
I'd also like to point out that the Constitution still applies in Wyoming. Wyoming has no right to prevent me from entering or traveling in Wyoming. I can drive my boat on the water from anywhere in Utah to anywhere in Wyoming at the Gorge and Wyoming can't do anything about that. Where's the protection? What's the point? It's like most government programs that are intended to make you feel like you are doing something without the substance of actually doing anything.
For a conservative state, you guys up there have a strange view of the 4th Amendment. It is blatantly unconstitutional for the state of Wyoming to demand that I open my boat and drop my prop for their inspection. They might as well walk into my camper and demand that I drop my pants for an inspection.
I urge you to consider what the "common good" really is and what that means. If the "common good" is that I have to invite the government into my personal and private spaces whenever it asserts a right to do so, without probable cause, there is no liberty left in this country.
These petty cross state battles are ridiculous. It's not our side and your side. We are all Americans. It's time we act like it.
Take a deep breath Tim. He drove back and forth every day and just found it tiresome to have the inch by inch inspection done every day. If there is a tip around the "colonoscopy" for everyday launching, give the brother a tip. It's the second, third or fourth trip up the canal that gets raw.
That's my point. I had receipts for an inspection in Evanston (where they locked my boat to my trailer!) and then another inspection at Anvil, followed by another inspection at Anvil, followed by another inspection at Anvil. In 2 days I had to be inspected 4 times because lunch was in Utah and fishing was in Wyoming. I had two receipts per day. How is that efficient? How is that protecting anyone? Because I could have driven to Red Fleet during lunch, launched my boat and come back 3 hours later to launch at Anvil?
It is the people that UNINTENTIONALLY drag AIS from one place to another that we need to worry about. You will never stop an INTENTIONAL AIS introduction. If you've been inspected 3 times already and you've been at the same lake for 2 days, there is no reason to have to drop your prop again, putting the constitutional issues aside and looking at this from an efficiency perspective.
