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"No Wake" for Econfina

Posted: August 11th, 2005, 11:53 am
by pops
According to the Taco Times the county commission voted last week to draft an ordinance extending the "no wake" zone from the concrete bridge to three -quarters of a mile from the mouth of the river.

Posted: August 11th, 2005, 12:21 pm
by wevans
Most likely due to the crash earlier in the year :roll: seems like a knee-jerk reaction to me :hammer: :beer:

Posted: August 11th, 2005, 12:44 pm
by Fisherman989
pops....Where is the concrete bridge? I've never seen one on that river except Hwy 98. Is it above the launch site?. :)

Posted: August 11th, 2005, 1:35 pm
by pops
i suppose they are speaking of the bridge on 98

Posted: August 11th, 2005, 3:53 pm
by PinFishKing
There is an old one lane concrete bridge between the Econfina campground and the ramp. My guess is it is about 1/4 to 1/2 of a mile up river from the ramp. It is on the dirt road that you use to take the "back way" to Indian Mound. (Can't remember the name of the road) The highway 98 bridge is about 5 miles from the ramp. I don't think they are talking about that one unless they are trying to slow down canoes.

Posted: August 11th, 2005, 3:55 pm
by PinFishKing
Correction - Hickory Mound.

Posted: August 12th, 2005, 9:08 pm
by southren4evr
How in the heck can Tay;or co. comm do any thing on the Econfina river thats landing is state park land and it the rest is a federal reserve i thought ..Wouldn't the fish and game comm have a say so over it..Its the bridge that goes to hickoty mounds

Posted: August 12th, 2005, 9:09 pm
by southren4evr
How in the heck canthe Taylor co. REDNECK klan do any thing on the Econfina river thats landing is state park land and it the rest is a federal reserve i thought ..Wouldn't the fish and game comm have a say so over it..Its the bridge that goes to hickoty mounds

Posted: August 12th, 2005, 9:34 pm
by Frank Bradfield
Sounds like to me they are gonna take that little stretch before you get to the docks / shortcut out which is about 200yds out which is fine by me, no need to run that unless lighting is chasing ya...but the wreck was about a 1/4 mile up river from the last no wake sign...like everyone else who makes our decisons, they probably have never seen the econfina and are just going by what they hear,they probably put a few pieces of paper on the wall , throw a dart and thats how they determine our new regulations ! If they ran out with us on low tide a few times they'd be scared sh*tless and it would be no wake to the tripod...

Posted: August 12th, 2005, 11:05 pm
by PinFishKing
If they want to help, they should put up some channel markers while they are putting up no wake signs.

Posted: August 13th, 2005, 12:48 am
by southren4evr
What Tripod after Dennis

Posted: August 14th, 2005, 9:04 pm
by pops
what this river really needs is a dredged chanal from the landing to pass the tripod.

Posted: August 15th, 2005, 7:15 am
by wevans
But then a lot more people would be willing to fish over there pops :-D