Shaws bluff

[straw hat]

Put in at CC on Saturday. Fished the Shaw's bluff area. 4' visibility with slight green stain. Caught 14 keeper crappie and a zillon small white crappie. The keeper black crappie were all aught 6 to 10 ft deep and the keeper white crappie were caught 10 to 15' deep. All caught on brush piles NONE on standing timber. Also managed to catch two 1 lb channels as well as a 3#, 5# and 7# channel off those same brush piles. Water surface temp was 79F and down 5 feet was 77F and at 15' was 75F.

Side notes -  A LOT of swimmers at the launch (I believe that is a no swimming area, lol) and one tuber pulling people around within 200' of the boat launch while people were putting their boats in and taking them out. I guess he (and most others) don't know what a "no wake" buoy means. It means you can not create a wave that enters the no wake zone. No you are not suppose to go by a boat ramp at 100 zillion miles and hour. They are no wake zones. I wonder why? (He said rhetorically). I feel better now that I have gotten to complain. lol

 

[Outfishwagner]

Obviously you do not know what a no wake zone means either.

[straw hat]

I am sorry if I made you angry.

These new regs go into eff3ect in August and will replace the existing 200 ' limitation with a 100 ft limitation.

http://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=306.125&bid=16393&hl=

Effective28 Aug 2008

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION

Chapter 306

306.125. Operation of watercraft, how — restricted areas, certain vessels, speed allowed — exceptions — penalty. — 1. Every person shall operate a motorboat, vessel or watercraft in a careful and prudent manner and at a rate of speed so as not to endanger the property of another or the life or limb of any person and shall exercise the highest degree of care.

2. No person shall operate a motorboat, vessel or watercraft at any time from a half-hour after sunset until an hour before sunrise the following day at a speed exceeding thirty miles per hour.

3. Vessels shall not be operated within one hundred feet of any dock, pier, occupied anchored boat or buoyed restricted area on any lake at a speed in excess of slow-no wake speed.

4. Subsection 1 of this section shall not apply to a motorboat or other boat race authorized under section 306.130.

Note - This replaces the current 200 ft rule for generating a wake. Slow No wake is defined as idle speed.

 

[Mhyde]

I'm not really sure if you are interpreting the no wake rule correctly. i.e. if you are running down the lake near the Hawkers or Orleans south ramp at full speed in a boat with a 200mph + outboard/inboard and are 500'  out then  you will still throw wake that will enter the no wake zone and eventually end up on the bank. I always interpreted the rule as the vessel/boat you are in can not be creating a wake once it enters the NO WAKE zone, but maybe I'm wrong???  

I'm with you on the no swimming at the ramp, that drives me NUTS when people do that.

[shrapnel]

A no wake buoy does NOT mean you can't create a wake that will pass that buoy, lol.  It means shut it down before you get to that buoy.   Entire lakes would be idle speed only.

[straw hat]

You must be at idle speed if within 100' of "any dock, pier, occupied anchored boat or buoyed restricted area ".

Until this new law goes into effect the limit is 200'.  I confirmed it in a conversation with the Highway Patrol Water Patrol agent. It has also been the law since I drove boats on the Gulf of Mexico in 1977. Yes I am that old and being that I am that old I thought things had maybe changed but I guess not.  I am not trying to make anyone upset or even asking anyone to change. I just though you should all be aware.

[Ranger520vx]

But I don't believe a buoyed restricted area is the same as a no wake zone. A restricted area would be an area where boats aren't allowed like a swimming beach or the area below a dam.

[straw hat]

Good point Ranger. Just referring to areas marked with a No Wake Buoy.