On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:02:48 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:32:34 -0500, wrote:

The various flavors of local marine police routinely ask for ID. Don't
know what happens if you don't have any.

Where was that?

NY, Long Island Sound in my hot rod inflatable days... :-)

LIS is getting ridiculous in and around the Race area. Last year, I
was stopped twice by DEM (RI), DEP (CT) and DEC (NY) checking on
striper length and fish totals. I've heard that this year was the
same - on some days you could be stopped twice by the same fisheries
enforcement types.

Freakin' ridiculous.

On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:07:47 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

The various flavors of local marine police routinely ask for ID. Don't
know what happens if you don't have any.

Where was that?

NY, Long Island Sound in my hot rod inflatable days... :-)

LIS is getting ridiculous in and around the Race area. Last year, I
was stopped twice by DEM (RI), DEP (CT) and DEC (NY) checking on
striper length and fish totals. I've heard that this year was the
same - on some days you could be stopped twice by the same fisheries
enforcement types.

Freakin' ridiculous.

Absolutely, and it is happening all over. The marine police in
Stamford, CT have at least 3 or 4 boats, the latest being a 30
something high powered catamarran, just what they need for zooming up
and down the harbor. Where do they get the money for this stuff, and
who is justifying the expense? The marine police in Suffolk County,
LI are running at least a couple of Bertram 33s with 454s, talk about
fuel expense.

We need to find a way of attacking at the budget level. That is the
oxygen flow for excessive policing.

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:32:34 -0500, wrote:

They searched my boat but didn't do much at all to me but telling me I
couldn't have come from where I said I did and promptly "stuck"
themselves in their RIB trying to follow me out.

Chuckle. Did you help them get unstuck? They should know better.

On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:13:54 -0500, wrote:

It was in that mangrove just northeast of Big Carlos. If you can run
skinny you can take the slot between the 2 islands and come out up by
mound key (east of the channel)
That is the flat behind the big Osprey nest pole where the spoonbills
hang out at low tide.
They evidently needed about a foot and a half more than me ;-)

We did go back but they waived us off.

I wonder how they explained that one in the morning report. :-)

Are you running a pontoon, or is it a flats boat?

On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:20:53 -0500, wrote:

Are you running a pontoon, or is it a flats boat?

I have a 20' Harris pontoon with the engine 4" above the stock
location.

Back in Estero Bay you should be able to out run anything in SWFL,

and that's without the afterburners...