Just trying to keep everyone's nose clean. For those of you who don't know, and according to the warden that's a lot of us, the new boat validation decals are green this year and were required as of March 1. I was on Holter this past weekend and a boat came around the corner and stopped mid lake. I asked my boys "I wonder how many people have their new green tags yet?" as I went to get my binoculars. Before I could get them to my eyes I realized that boat was headed towards us and those dark green jackets sure make those yellow patches on the sleeves stand out! It was FWP. I told my boys "here I was wanting to see if they had green tags but I bet they are wondering the same about us". They pull up and first thing I notice is they didn't have the proper tags
. I gave them a gentle ribbing and of course they had some sort of excuse. Overall it was a pleasant encounter, but I am a bit disappointed that they told me I was the only boat they had seen so far with the proper tags. I don't know how many others they had checked that day but we as sportsman/women can certainly do better, I didn't really see any pleasure boaters out, every one we came across other than the wardens were fishing. Tight lines and safe boating everyone!