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 Re: Wear your Kill Switch - Sept 1, 2019
[Re: danceswithbass]
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09/05/19 11:17 AM
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RedRanger
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I haven’t seen a game warden on a lake in 15 years Fish Lewisville, then Bridgeport, then Cedar Creek across three days and you will break that string Only time I saw a game warden on Lewisville was around the party cove area during July 4th on Lewisville. Fished Cedar Creek many times never seen one there.
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Re: Wear your Kill Switch - Sept 1, 2019
[Re: Jake Blood]
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09/05/19 11:19 AM
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RedRanger
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For those of you forgetting that you have the kill switch lanyard attached and are pulling it out when you stand to fish.. I have the solution. Works great and you will remember it is there. Might also give you a bit of sympathy for your scaly rivals lol Oh, and I apologize for the face.. think I got it from my mother. ![[Linked Image]](https://texasfishingforum.com/forums/pics/userpics/2019/09/full-30092-23822-ouch.png) 
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Re: Wear your Kill Switch - Sept 1, 2019
[Re: Debra Hengst]
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09/06/19 05:42 AM
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cwil
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bought me one of those jetski wrist straps and a new oem merc kill switch lanyard, I just hang over the steering wheel to remind me to put on when i start the engine. Its long enough that I can still run the graphs and drive the boat without killing the engine. also because on my wrist I feel it better to remove it before getting up out of the seat and killing the engine. with it attached to my inflatable life vest, cannot feel lanyard at all. no matter how long I ran the engine, I would forget and stand up and kill it. even just taking the vest off would kill it sometimes. works for me.
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Re: Wear your Kill Switch - Sept 1, 2019
[Re: TX Rig]
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09/06/19 11:43 AM
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Bob Landry
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I always wear mine but I need to buy a new one that isn't a string maybe the spring type cord that I can put on my wrist easier. You mean that nothing but string for a kill switch lanyard needs to be replaced? LOL I bought a new bright RED plastic coated one a last year because I was afraid of being DQ at a tournament for the warn out string that once was a proper kill switch lanyard. This leaves me with a question. What qualifies as a legal kill switch lanyard? A string or a proper fully intact bright RED lanyard? Does anyone know the answer? The genius that wrote this feel-good law can probably answer that.
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Re: Wear your Kill Switch - Sept 1, 2019
[Re: Debra Hengst]
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09/06/19 12:12 PM
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Tell me if i'm wrong butt....I always have the kill switch clipped to my PFD. The PFD stays in the drivers seat and I put it on when I start the big motor and drive the boat. When I stop and turn off the big motor I slip out of the PFD and go up front to fish. Is this correct?
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Re: Wear your Kill Switch - Sept 1, 2019
[Re: Debra Hengst]
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09/06/19 01:31 PM
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Tx Tree Grower
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It's easy to see how being attached to the kill switch could save lives in a boating accident. On that basic premise I guess I don't have an issue with the law. However, from everything I have read about the accident involving the namesake of this law, I fail to see how the captain being attached to the kill switch would have changed that situation in any way. A law being created under a false pretense doesn't seem right to me. Not trying to be disrespectful of a horrible tragedy. Just being honest.
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Re: Wear your Kill Switch - Sept 1, 2019
[Re: Tx Tree Grower]
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09/06/19 01:54 PM
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SteezMacQueen
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I It's easy to see how being attached to the kill switch could save lives in a boating accident. On that basic premise I guess I don't have an issue with the law. However, from everything I have read about the accident involving the namesake of this law, I fail to see how the captain being attached to the kill switch would have changed that situation in any way. A law being created under a false pretense doesn't seem right to me. Not trying to be disrespectful of a horrible tragedy. Just being honest. I don’t think it’s disrespectful. The disrespect involves using the persons namesake to promote someone’s agenda.
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Re: Wear your Kill Switch - Sept 1, 2019
[Re: RedRanger]
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09/06/19 02:01 PM
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danceswithbass
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I haven’t seen a game warden on a lake in 15 years Fish Lewisville, then Bridgeport, then Cedar Creek across three days and you will break that string Only time I saw a game warden on Lewisville was around the party cove area during July 4th on Lewisville. Fished Cedar Creek many times never seen one there. On Cedar Creek, if I think about it, been checked or seen someone boarded twice and both times was a holiday weekend. Very seldom do they check boats that are clearly bass fishing in my experience, most of the times I have been checked have been taking kids fishing for open water species (been safety/license/livewell checked on Tawakoni three times in one year hybrid fishing for example), guessing experience tells them the infraction rate is higher there. Always on a weekend at LL and around the ramps convenient to party cove. The game warden that covers Bridgeport seems to focus on crappie fisherman from the couple of times I have talked to him.
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Re: Wear your Kill Switch - Sept 1, 2019
[Re: Bucketlist]
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09/06/19 02:43 PM
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Razorback
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Tell me if i'm wrong butt....I always have the kill switch clipped to my PFD. The PFD stays in the drivers seat and I put it on when I start the big motor and drive the boat. When I stop and turn off the big motor I slip out of the PFD and go up front to fish. Is this correct? What if you can't swim or prefer to wear your PFD while fishing? In that case you don't leave it in the driver's seat attached to the kill switch. You have to remember to attach it every time you sit down to crank the motor.
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Re: Wear your Kill Switch - Sept 1, 2019
[Re: Razorback]
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09/07/19 01:01 AM
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Bobby Milam
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Tell me if i'm wrong butt....I always have the kill switch clipped to my PFD. The PFD stays in the drivers seat and I put it on when I start the big motor and drive the boat. When I stop and turn off the big motor I slip out of the PFD and go up front to fish. Is this correct? What if you can't swim or prefer to wear your PFD while fishing? In that case you don't leave it in the driver's seat attached to the kill switch. You have to remember to attach it every time you sit down to crank the motor. They do make wireless sensors you can connect to your kill switch and then not only does it sense if the driver goes overboard but you can also have each passenger with their own so anyone goes overboard it kills the boat. With one of these you can move freely around the boat and not worry about reconnecting the lanyard but they are expensive.
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Re: Wear your Kill Switch - Sept 1, 2019
[Re: Debra Hengst]
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09/07/19 01:25 AM
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crankn101
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LOL@ being happy for more feel good laws.
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Re: Wear your Kill Switch - Sept 1, 2019
[Re: Bobby Milam]
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09/07/19 01:32 AM
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bronco71
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Tell me if i'm wrong butt....I always have the kill switch clipped to my PFD. The PFD stays in the drivers seat and I put it on when I start the big motor and drive the boat. When I stop and turn off the big motor I slip out of the PFD and go up front to fish. Is this correct? What if you can't swim or prefer to wear your PFD while fishing? In that case you don't leave it in the driver's seat attached to the kill switch. You have to remember to attach it every time you sit down to crank the motor. They do make wireless sensors you can connect to your kill switch and then not only does it sense if the driver goes overboard but you can also have each passenger with their own so anyone goes overboard it kills the boat. With one of these you can move freely around the boat and not worry about reconnecting the lanyard but they are expensive. AND if you have one EVERYONE in the boat has to wear a sensor.....
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