Fishing/Camping Rules:
1. Get a Fishing License.
2. Get a Boat Driving License.
3. Read and know about the catch limits for your area.
4. Do not leave your 28' motor home and boat trailer parked at the boat launch while you go out on the lake to fish, as other people may need the launch to get in and off the water.
5. If your garbage flies out of your boat, make at least some small attempt at retrieving it instead of just letting it drift away.
6. When changing your fish line, pick up the old line and take it home and put it in YOUR garbage instead of just leaving it on the ground.
7. When starting up your generator, it would be polite to talk to your campground neighbours informing them of how long you think you will be needing to disrupt their peace and quiet and opportunity to listen to wild life in nature. Do NOT ever run the generator longer than three hours and try to do so at noon when mechanical noises are not so noticeable in the wild. If you find that you need to run the generator longer than three hours perhaps you should either a) get a bigger battery b) go to an electrified campsite c) stay home.
8. Do not use your fish net as an oar. It just doesn't work very well.
9. It is always BEST to check to see if you have a bung in your boat and that it is inserted correctly before you launch it. In fact, it is strongly suggested that one check this before leaving home recalling this ancient fisherman's motto "Do you know where your Bung is?"
10. Turning your hitch at right angles as you unload your boat from the trailer is never a good thing. It is unnatural for other boaters to be able see the floor of your boat from the middle of the lake.
11. (a)Trying to start your boat motor with it tilted UP will only result in much frustration on your part--not to mention the motor itself by overheating and sputtering. Carburetors like being level.
(b) Further addressing the topic of difficult to start motors, in the event that any difficult to start boat motor does indeed start, it is not a recommended fishing practice to head out immediately to the furthest and most isolated side of the lake.
12. Please do not try to hide the fact that you are the type of fisherman that keeps every single fish no matter the type or how large or small. When you stand on the other side of your truck discreetly 'cleaning, cleaning' for an hour...we all pretty much know you have TOO many fish; and we for sure know it when you come back the next day and do the same thing.
13. If you have a boat without a steering wheel, one should sit on the right hand side of the motor...to counteract the spinning of the propeller. It keeps the boat leveller and makes the steering easier.
14. Throwing hooks into the water when you don't catch a fish does not really reap you anything but a possible pulled shoulder and a bigger bill next time you go to the fishing tackle place.
15. There are no family secrets when fishing and camping in public. One can pretty much ascertain what some people's wives and children have to deal with when one hears swearing, banging, scraping, while watching the zero to sixty attitude towards other fisherman with regard as to where they park their trailers. (Threatening to flatten tires really isn't part of very many effective conflict resolution methodologies and probably should be avoided.)
16. Finally and most importantly, lifejackets are to be worn.
Until next year.
1. Get a Fishing License.
2. Get a Boat Driving License.
3. Read and know about the catch limits for your area.
4. Do not leave your 28' motor home and boat trailer parked at the boat launch while you go out on the lake to fish, as other people may need the launch to get in and off the water.
5. If your garbage flies out of your boat, make at least some small attempt at retrieving it instead of just letting it drift away.
6. When changing your fish line, pick up the old line and take it home and put it in YOUR garbage instead of just leaving it on the ground.
7. When starting up your generator, it would be polite to talk to your campground neighbours informing them of how long you think you will be needing to disrupt their peace and quiet and opportunity to listen to wild life in nature. Do NOT ever run the generator longer than three hours and try to do so at noon when mechanical noises are not so noticeable in the wild. If you find that you need to run the generator longer than three hours perhaps you should either a) get a bigger battery b) go to an electrified campsite c) stay home.
8. Do not use your fish net as an oar. It just doesn't work very well.
9. It is always BEST to check to see if you have a bung in your boat and that it is inserted correctly before you launch it. In fact, it is strongly suggested that one check this before leaving home recalling this ancient fisherman's motto "Do you know where your Bung is?"
10. Turning your hitch at right angles as you unload your boat from the trailer is never a good thing. It is unnatural for other boaters to be able see the floor of your boat from the middle of the lake.
11. (a)Trying to start your boat motor with it tilted UP will only result in much frustration on your part--not to mention the motor itself by overheating and sputtering. Carburetors like being level.
(b) Further addressing the topic of difficult to start motors, in the event that any difficult to start boat motor does indeed start, it is not a recommended fishing practice to head out immediately to the furthest and most isolated side of the lake.
12. Please do not try to hide the fact that you are the type of fisherman that keeps every single fish no matter the type or how large or small. When you stand on the other side of your truck discreetly 'cleaning, cleaning' for an hour...we all pretty much know you have TOO many fish; and we for sure know it when you come back the next day and do the same thing.
13. If you have a boat without a steering wheel, one should sit on the right hand side of the motor...to counteract the spinning of the propeller. It keeps the boat leveller and makes the steering easier.
14. Throwing hooks into the water when you don't catch a fish does not really reap you anything but a possible pulled shoulder and a bigger bill next time you go to the fishing tackle place.
15. There are no family secrets when fishing and camping in public. One can pretty much ascertain what some people's wives and children have to deal with when one hears swearing, banging, scraping, while watching the zero to sixty attitude towards other fisherman with regard as to where they park their trailers. (Threatening to flatten tires really isn't part of very many effective conflict resolution methodologies and probably should be avoided.)
16. Finally and most importantly, lifejackets are to be worn.
Until next year.
May your waters be calm, and your boat keep you dry
That little one you threw back may become next year's
Big Guy.
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