Fishing Boat?????????

[bassjnkie]

There was a video posted here of a bunch of kids catching a catfish with a r/c boat. One question that was asked, was is it illegal and many said yes. My question is, why does Trombley's in Orillia sell a R/C fishing boat and yes there is a pic of a kid fishing with it and there is a place to attach the line and to top it all off an employee said it was legal. I'm confused, I thought that was totally illegal:wallbash:

 

Daniel

OCH

[irishfield]

Personally.. I don't see it being any different than a tip up and line that is being "attended" within the 60 meter clear view zone.

[forrest]

OK...I will bite:

 

If it is illegal it makes perfect sense:

 

1) Boat motor dies....no way to retrieve caught fish

2) Boat motor is overpowered by fish.....no way to retrieve fish

 

forrest

[Stoty]

Lucky fish then!

[Greencoachdog]

As long as that is the only line being tended by the angler, I don't really see it being illegal.

[HTHM]

Legal or not I thought it was COOL! Not smart but cool.

[Ryan Landry]

I personally think it's illegal, based solely on the fact that it's looks extremely fun.

 

Extremely fun = Illegal (most of the time)

 

Ryan

[OhioFisherman]

Just my view is it should be illegal, for some of the reasons I am not down with people jug fishing. Jug drifts and you can`t recover it, a death sentence for the fish on the jug, or one that may take the bait later. Fish on a broken line may be able to catch food, fish trying to pull a jug and catch food? a death sentence and probably a wasted fish.

 

Same deal with the boat, loses power, loss of signal, breakdown= dead fish? One thing to accidently lose fish,or have one die on you while fishing for them, but while playing? Take the resource seriously.