Ottawa denying launching to out of Staters

[capt pete]

Oregon, and Wash State, totally locked down for all fishing...both fresh and salt.

[Old Wheezer]

So with all this chatter on this thread I have a question. Has anyone been ticketed at an Ohio boat ramp for being a resident of a different state? If that is happening I haven't heard about it.

[Tangled Lines]

From what I have read, on this site and others, they were denied access to launch if they had out of state plates. However, I was not there.

[dunn782]

If we argue about it long enough it will be over.

[Cvanburen]

I’m from out of state and I’m have a valid fishing license till mid May and would like to be using them now but I will have to wait. The local bait shops and restaurants really like the out of state money when we’re there but with all this down time in fishing it would be a good time for all non residents to purchase there lures and any tackle from a good online store that has no connection with OHIO for I’m sure they wouldn’t want our money later then if they don’t want us now also a good cooler can hold enough drinks and sandwich supplies for a long weekend of fishing

[Herkimer]

Read on OGF this morning that Ottawa officials denying out of state boaters from launching at Catawba and Mazuricks.Said they must self quarantine for 14 days if coming from out of state.

Bob,
Greetings my friend, any recent word for us out of staters fishing Erie from Gov. DeWine. I saw his news conference about opening some specific business this AM.
Thanks

[West Basin]

Wow, very nice post, Madd Matt. Thanks!

I did not know about the out-of-state "stamp" requirement for fishing Lake Erie the first four months of the year. Just looked it up - yep it's real. Don't know how long it's been required, when it started.

http://wildlife.ohiodnr.gov/fishing/...tions/licenses

Look under the Quick Links, under license information, NONRESIDENT LICENSES

"Nonresident Lake Erie Sportfishing Permit (Jan 1 to April 30, 2020) $11.00"

Sounds like the large majority of people are following the Covid19 guidelines and being courtious with others. Let's Keep This Up! Government is only there to provide the structure and "rules" as well as legal enforcement. It's utimately up to each of us to take responsibility and do the necessary things to get through this. That's the American Way. Personal Responsibility. Take it seriously. It's what freedom is all about.

[Kim Gentz]

First of all on this stamp is a new law as of 2019. We bought our licenses in June of 2019 and our license is good until June of 2020. We had no ideal about the fishing stamp because we did not need to get a new license. We looked through the fishing regulation book on how may fish we can catch the size limit and if there is any thing on slot limits. The DNR person who gave us the ticket showed us where the stamp info is in the Reg. This info was kind of in the middle of the book and very hard to find. (Like fine print in a contract.) even many of the bait shops have no ideal about this stamp and it also seem some of the DNR personal do not know about this stamp, now finding out they are checking license of out of staters and not looking for the stamp.
The real point here is they are not selling license to out of staters and selling them to residence of the state of Ohio. This is wrong and is unconstitutional by federal law and is a infringement of my civil rights. Hiding behind that you have to self quarantine for two weeks is just ********. Come on American wake up see what is going on here! The media has you so scared you are afraid of your own shadow. I was out of the country for 2 months just before this BS hit the fans in the U.S. I had to self quarantine for 2 weeks If I did not do this my roommate could not go to work because she worked in health care in Wisconsin. So now I have already self quarantine and now Ohio is saying I have to re self quarantine in their state. So does this mean every state I go through I have to self quarantine for 2 weeks? Why do we not treat this like the flu it really is if you are sick and running a fever stay home and get better. Where are the guild lines on how and where you have to self quarantine, are these federal guild lines is there a booklet or is this just a bunch of nut jobs making stuff up the way they feel they want it. I am an American and know the American way, and do no like the BS they are shoving down my throat.

[Madd Matt]

First of all on this stamp is a new law as of 2019. We bought our licenses in June of 2019 and our license is good until June of 2020. We had no ideal about the fishing stamp because we did not need to get a new license. We looked through the fishing regulation book on how may fish we can catch the size limit and if there is any thing on slot limits. The DNR person who gave us the ticket showed us where the stamp info is in the Reg. This info was kind of in the middle of the book and very hard to find. (Like fine print in a contract.) even many of the bait shops have no ideal about this stamp and it also seem some of the DNR personal do not know about this stamp, now finding out they are checking license of out of staters and not looking for the stamp.
The real point here is they are not selling license to out of staters and selling them to residence of the state of Ohio. This is wrong and is unconstitutional by federal law and is a infringement of my civil rights...........

Kim, my post was not a response to your situation. I was not singling you out in that, I was responding to the entire content of this thread.

Having said that. I agree with you for the most part. I do believe that it is irrational and an over reach of the government to do some of the things that they are doing. There isn’t any way to get too much more isolated than to be out in the middle of a Great Lake on a small boat. I’m with you on that one and hope that they open the out of State licenses back up!

[Kim Gentz]

no problem I am tired of the BS going on and American needs to go back to work. I wholeheartedly believe that it is more fatal in the long run to the American people then the beer virus. Now all of a sudden we have all these heroes because they are just doing their job that they chose. This is their career they went into on their own no one drafted them into this career. They are just doing their job and getting paid for it. Come on American get a back bone lets all be heroes and go back to work!!!I can not believe how the media and politicians can control the majority of the American people. I had a VA appointment and had to do this by phone, I told the doctor what I thought was going on with the beer virus, he told me, "that no doubt this is real"! "Ask the people at the meat plant in Green Bay where 3 people died. I said that is really bad 3 people died, I then asked the Doc., did any one of them or all of them have one foot in the grave all ready. the Doc got real quiet and then tried to turn the conversation to something else and avoided my question to him. Now if you die you are going to die from the coronavirus no matter what. If you get hit by a truck and die it must have been a Corona beer truck linked to the coronavirus. The media would play this out to no end!!! I refuse to wear a face mask cover my face as they do in other 3rd world countries. Lets open up the lake Eire for out of staters so we can go fishing!!!!!