On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:23:15 -0700 (PDT), Ronnie
wrote:

Idle speed only would eliminate night tournaments here - lakes are way
too big and too many boats in them. We had 8 boats in our club
tournament, another weekly tournament had about 30. Marina cove would
get real crowded. Game Wardens do enforce reckless driving - going too
fast for conditions. But they don't patrol a lot at night. Most of
the problems are caused by idiots out there without running lights -
two guys were killed in a jon boat here last summer, they were in the
middle of the lake, hundreds of yards from the bank on either side,
with no lights at all on a very dark night. You can't fix stupid, but
I guess you can end it.

I threw a black spinnerbait some but no hits,. Where I got hit there
are a lot of shoreline lights so the water is lit some, even tho they
don't shine in the water. I use a white/silver combo there.

Ronnie

http://fishing.about.com

Yea, used to throw lots of stuff where there were lights. There are
so many lakes in WI, there was no problem with crowding. Many lakes
have a warden/state/city/county/cop or a constable living on them so
enforcement was always there. Used to get hassles if my 14 foot boat
made a 6 inch wake. One guy used to hassle me about a too short white
lite post. Put a ten footer on the next time and told him to go home
and fight with his wife instead of bothering fishermen. One cop that
used to hassle us on a lake was video taped letting his buddy test a
hydro at 100mph+ on a 40mph lake. He got real surly when he was shown
a copy with him using a radar gun to clock his buddy. He stopped
coming to that lake!

Dan