http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPexW...eature=related

On 4/4/10 7:04 PM, mmc wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPexW...eature=related




These damned things tear up oyster beds, and slightly under water grass
beds where fish breed and eat. Damned things ought to be banned. Their
owners ought to be tossed with bleeding cuts into a nest of alligators.

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On 4/4/10 8:28 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:10:35 -0400,
wrote:

On 4/4/10 7:04 PM, mmc wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPexW...eature=related




These damned things tear up oyster beds, and slightly under water grass
beds where fish breed and eat. Damned things ought to be banned. Their
owners ought to be tossed with bleeding cuts into a nest of alligators.

I agree about the grass, they are illegal to run over a grass bed
right now in Florida(as is grinding through with any boat).
$1000 fine and you may have to pay to fix it.

As for the oyster bar, I bet on the oysters, particularly if they were
seeded on coral rock.

The oyster beds I recall in and along the ICW were seeded on a
muddy/sandy bottom.





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On Apr 4, 5:31*pm, hk wrote:
On 4/4/10 8:28 PM, wrote:



On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:10:35 -0400,
wrote:

On 4/4/10 7:04 PM, mmc wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPexW...eature=related

These damned things tear up oyster beds, and slightly under water grass
beds where fish breed and eat. Damned things ought to be banned. Their
owners ought to be tossed with bleeding cuts into a nest of alligators..

I agree about the grass, they are illegal to run over a grass bed
right now *in Florida(as is grinding through with any boat).
$1000 fine and you may have to pay to fix it.

As for the oyster bar, I bet on the oysters, particularly if they were
seeded on coral rock.

The oyster beds I recall in and along the ICW were seeded on a
muddy/sandy bottom.

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I see a lot of these and they are not a problem for grass beds because
ti is illegal to run them over shallow grass beds.

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On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:31:50 -0400, hk
wrote:

As for the oyster bar, I bet on the oysters, particularly if they were
seeded on coral rock.

The oyster beds I recall in and along the ICW were seeded on a
muddy/sandy bottom.



Some of the restoration does use coral rock like rip rap stones to
anchor the new beds until they get established. The other method
involves bolding the seeded shell together in wire mesh. Neither are
very "prop friendly".
Florida Gulf Coast University has an active restoration program going
on here using the wire mesh method. Running over one of these beds is
about like hitting a pile of crab traps full of rocks

I guess the ultimate is still the airboat. Too damn noisy though.

On 4/5/10 8:38 AM, mmc wrote:
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On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:31:50 -0400,
wrote:

As for the oyster bar, I bet on the oysters, particularly if they were
seeded on coral rock.

The oyster beds I recall in and along the ICW were seeded on a
muddy/sandy bottom.



Some of the restoration does use coral rock like rip rap stones to
anchor the new beds until they get established. The other method
involves bolding the seeded shell together in wire mesh. Neither are
very "prop friendly".
Florida Gulf Coast University has an active restoration program going
on here using the wire mesh method. Running over one of these beds is
about like hitting a pile of crab traps full of rocks

I guess the ultimate is still the airboat. Too damn noisy though.




I proudly participated in an effort to have airboats banned from the ICW
north of St. Augustine, Florida, because of noise pollution. That wasn't
the only reason to ban them...there were a couple of airboaters who got
their jollies running over the salt marshes.

The airboats were noisier than the jet engines the air national guardies
played with at the guard's facilities at the st. augustine airport.
*That* was simply boys and their toys, and the sonic intrusions were rare.

I recall bassfishing at Orange Lake in Florida many years ago. We were
only catching a couple of fish, but the area was beautiful and it was
the first place where I saw a bald eagle. A few hours into our sojourn
with nature, a pair of airboaters came out, pretending they were
16-year-olds on jetskis. Crikey! Why those who lived around the lake
didn't use the airboats for target practice is beyond me.




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On 4/5/10 11:04 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:54:55 -0400,
wrote:

I recall bassfishing at Orange Lake in Florida many years ago. We were
only catching a couple of fish, but the area was beautiful and it was
the first place where I saw a bald eagle.

You never saw one in Maryland?
We used to see them occasionally in Southern Maryland and they were on
the Eastern Shore quite often in the 50s and 60s.


Nope. Only saw airboats in Florida. I suspect southern Maryland is a bit
less "southern" than when you lived in the area. In the 1950s and early
1960s, the shore I saw the most of was of Long Island Sound off Milford
and Branford, Connecticut, and Lakes Zoar and Candlewood, inland. :)
Don't recall seeing or hearing any airboats...

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On Apr 4, 7:10*pm, hk wrote:
On 4/4/10 7:04 PM, mmc wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPexW...eature=related

These damned things tear up oyster beds, and slightly under water grass
beds where fish breed and eat. Damned things ought to be banned. Their
owners ought to be tossed with bleeding cuts into a nest of alligators.

--http://tinyurl.com/ykxp2ym

Yep, as well as gas hog Parkers

On Apr 5, 11:47*am, Loogypicker wrote:
On Apr 4, 7:10*pm, hk wrote:

On 4/4/10 7:04 PM, mmc wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPexW...eature=related

These damned things tear up oyster beds, and slightly under water grass
beds where fish breed and eat. Damned things ought to be banned. Their
owners ought to be tossed with bleeding cuts into a nest of alligators.

--http://tinyurl.com/ykxp2ym

Yep, as well as gas hog Parkers

There are huge differences in noise level from one air boat to another
mostly depending on how the prop is made. 2 bladed props are noisiest
and the more blades, the less noise generally. The 6 blade ones I
have seen are far quiter than the old 2 bladed ones. Note that the
noise produced by the unmuffled exhaust is much less than the prop
noise.