Outboards on aluminum boats?

[EL_prowler_619]

Who cares at this point....

[falafeluver]

I thought that anyone can bring their own OB as long as it was 20hp or less? I almost got one a few years ago but someone purchased it before I asked (it was a very good price as he was moving out of state and asking $900 for a used Honda 2020 with less than 80 hours).

[EL_prowler_619]

From what the rules says and what i have read there's no outboards allowed ... now I could be wrong and if that's the case then I'm going to west marine and getting a 5hp for my pontoon

[falafeluver]

I was wrong, 25 hp is the max engine allowed but allowed on the lake’s aluminum boats only. I’ve seen over the years a few boaters with their 15hp and one 20hp and those guys were FLYING!

Zipping across the lake and going between Hauser and PC in no time flat!

[EL_prowler_619]

With as many float tubes in the lake anything over a 15hp will hurt someone on a tube. I can diff see someone bring a 10 or 15 incase the lakes motors ain't working and you have a boat reservation but besides that no need to do tournament speed at barrett even with those 10hp someone going full speed moves a tube or kayak around pretty good

[camobass]

Waaaaay back in the day, my brother and I used to get the row boat and bring a motor. Not sure if you can still do that. We used to bring a 30hp 2 smoker. Never got questioned.

[EL_prowler_619]

30hp? Wow how long it take you to get from one end to the other 3 minutes? I can see how that can easy be a 100 fish a day. Honestly I would like to put a 3.5 on my set up but I think it will cause to much attention at barrett

[camobass]

We never ran wide open. It was so long ago. A lot of the older Johnson/evinrude motors were the same size dimensions with different hp. It was pretty common to bring your own motors to the dock long long ago. Some guys even would swap out the motors on the boats with their own.
I imagine you wouldn’t have any issues with any type of enforcement. Only enforcement I ever encountered down there is off season haha

[MistrRocko]

You're obviously not supposed to bring your own outboard powered aluminum craft and add an extra boat to the lake. People have bent the meaning of "float tube/kayak" real far at this point. What a legitimate kayak can do has also changed a ton since the old days though. You can easily sink 20k into one for bow and transom mounted trolling motors, side scanning and ffs, power poles, etc. It's significantly more than a top of the line bass boat could do 20 years ago aside from speed. You'll never convince me that's more fair than a kid showing up with a jonboat and an outboard that they paid a total of 1k for. We have been playing don't ask don't tell for a long time at Barrett and that's what we should keep doing instead of publicly asking exactly what the boundaries are because nobody is going to like it if rules actually start getting enforced.

[JWall]

You're obviously not supposed to bring your own outboard powered aluminum craft and add an extra boat to the lake. People have bent the meaning of "float tube/kayak" real far at this point. What a legitimate kayak can do has also changed a ton since the old days though. You can easily sink 20k into one for bow and transom mounted trolling motors, side scanning and ffs, power poles, etc. It's significantly more than a top of the line bass boat could do 20 years ago aside from speed. You'll never convince me that's more fair than a kid showing up with a jonboat and an outboard that they paid a total of 1k for. We have been playing don't ask don't tell for a long time at Barrett and that's what we should keep doing instead of publicly asking exactly what the boundaries are because nobody is going to like it if rules actually start getting enforced.

At some point there will be a reckoning with the boundaries on crafts and propulsion being pushed. Maybe not all bad and hopefully not leading to more restrictions. I say keep the crafts to rubber and plastic and propulsion to battery powered trolling motors. Just my 2¢.

[AutoJonez]

You're obviously not supposed to bring your own outboard powered aluminum craft and add an extra boat to the lake. People have bent the meaning of "float tube/kayak" real far at this point. What a legitimate kayak can do has also changed a ton since the old days though. You can easily sink 20k into one for bow and transom mounted trolling motors, side scanning and ffs, power poles, etc. It's significantly more than a top of the line bass boat could do 20 years ago aside from speed. You'll never convince me that's more fair than a kid showing up with a jonboat and an outboard that they paid a total of 1k for. We have been playing don't ask don't tell for a long time at Barrett and that's what we should keep doing instead of publicly asking exactly what the boundaries are because nobody is going to like it if rules actually start getting enforced.

At some point there will be a reckoning with the boundaries on crafts and propulsion being pushed. Maybe not all bad and hopefully not leading to more restrictions. I say keep the crafts to rubber and plastic and propulsion to battery powered trolling motors. Just my 2¢.

That would be my take as well. There's many lakes around the country that are electric only and/or kayak/canoe only. Part of the beauty of Barrett is the quiet and calm, so a bunch more jon boats with 2 strokes flying around would be a real buzz kill haha.

[MistrRocko]

I'd be A-OK with an electric only Barrett as long as they reduce our ticket prices since it would make their outboard maintenance/gas fees disappear.