FishinCricket

That's because: 1. No ones gotten personal yet 2. there's still things being discussed I know, you tried... Try try again... (we all know you will)

Meh, I don't mind.. Just taught it wuz funny..

Sorry, but that just simply isn't the case... But yeah, nobody likes a grammar nazi... (and it's spelled "speech", just for the record) :silly_face:

Thanks for the reply Ron, I understand your perspective.. Someday I'll be the same, but as of now I find myself agonizing for days about spending over $100 on ANYTHING that isn't essential to life... (there's an ongoing internal debate about what those three words mean, exactly, but that's not a rant for this thread.. Or is it?!!? )

Are you a comedian? Cause your "two cents" is hilarious!!

Where there's a will, there's a way eh? lol

Care to expound on that, or maybe suggest an alternative? :pretty_please:

Yeah, it's prolly a good thing you don't CCW...

Well try that with a snub nose .38 or my LCP Ruger, and good luck to ya! lol

This doesn't remind me of your fishing reports at all, Al...

Always nice to have an expert around, I say...

I take it all back, this advice is all complete BS..

Well my whole plan (gluing carpet to my shoe soles) is shot all to he11!! This is BS!!

Then why add the wording into the official law? Why not just leave it as simple as "felt soled wading boots"?

Hmm, makes me wonder... How many of these city folk that come to the Niangua every year to float (and party) are gonna be unaware of the rules? Betcha at least some of em will have felt soled sandals (for better traction when drunk)... Sounds like a cash infusion for the state! We have a saying on the Niangua: Come on vacation, leave on probation

But I have seen a pair of river shoes with carpet glued to the soles (for traction).. So the question IS valid. My guess is that an agent with a chip on his shoulder (or one who's been agitated by you for some reason) COULD right a ticket based upon the above verbiage and make it stick.

LMAO!! Classic Paul Dallas right there... Welcome to the forum, newbie... All business, this guy. I know nothing about motors on boats, but FishinWrench does come highly recommended.

Truly beautiful, man!!

You mean like the 10 mile section of the Osage Fork that's patrolled by the "Evergreen Police"? They have signs hanging everywhere, they rebuilt the bridge at the end of their property (Orla Bridge) and deleted the boat accesses.. Heck, they even closed an old road that led to an old cemetery once, it took years of battling in court to get that road re-opened! Those folks think they can get away with whatever.. And they can afford to!! Money may not be able to buy you love, but it can sure put a price on everything else, can't it!?!?! (some black hearted bastids don't care about love anyway)

Just for clarity: There is no put in/take out "in" the park. The park surrounds the spring branch. At the end of the spring branch there is a boat ramp and parking lot (labelled "concessionaire use area") but this isn't the outfitters put in/take out, it's the Parks ramp and it's where their customers put in or take out. I am unaware of any outfitters that use that ramp. All the outfitters use the Bennett Springs Public Access 1/4 mile downstream, it's a state public access with 3 separate launch ramps that gets pretty well covered up with aluminum from various outfitters from 9am to 3 pm during the warm summer months. What's apparently being enforced is simply the outfitters picking up the Bennett campers IN the spring branch and then taking them out of the park and to the river then dropping them back off IN the park. The state doesn't want to compete, and it's realized that technically it doesn't have to. Instead their customers will simply drive to the outfitter of their choice. (Or to use the analogy from earlier: I can't solicit car sales at the park, but if you were at the park and called ME and said "bring a truck on out, I'd like to look at it", I don't think I am legally barred from doing so..) Pretty darn stupid argument if you ask me, but maybe I'm misunderstanding it?

Alright, alright... :kicks_the_dirt_dejectedly:

Oh, you know.. Just this guy I know.

Nah, you prolly ARE just THAT good, fella.

Winner, winner.... Chicken dinner!!

Well I saw that the OP mentioned they'd be asking a "dumb question", so I popped in to provide the requisite "dumb answer"... Ah, I see I'm too late! Ah well...