Kevin Short reported last week about a wild event that happened to him on his way back from pre-practicing in LaCrosse a few weeks ago. Kevin was going to write his blog first, and we didn’t want to trump that, so we waited for him to write it and publish it so we could see how it shook out.
The gist of the story is Kevin Short, a professional bass fisherman on the Bassmaster Elite Series who drives a big pink dually pickup truck and pulls a big pink Basscat boat got stopped by a Motor Vehicle Enforcement Officer at 6 am in the morning on his way home.
Said officer basically cited him for not complying with DOT regulations as an interstate carrier with a Gross Combined Vehicle Weight in excess of 10,000 pounds. Yep, that’s apparently a citable offense if you haul a boat as part of your “business” more than 100 miles.
Short is now DOT registered, certified and whipped, filing log books and pulling into weigh stations on his way to and fro. Just another one of those things on the other side of the glamorous professional fishing lifestyle to be concerned with we suppose.
More info on dot requirements can be found here: http://www.motorists.org/other/dot-numbering.
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COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. Now he sets the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners.
Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure.
He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP.
He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.