Scaly posted below that authorities in WA will sight you for WD40 use on bait? We had a debate on our Oregon based board about whether it's legal or ethical. It's not technically legal, but in Oregon the police pretty much ignore it. That's likely because they are aware that spraying a small amount of WD40 on a bait (which is effective for salmon/steelhead) amounts to less than a tiny fraction of the polution coming out of OB motor exhausts. A past article in
www.boatescape.com about the upcoming 2006 emmision standards states that up to 25% of gas & oil escape not burned up properly from 2-cycle OBs. Wow! And the existing ones will continue to be legal to use after 2006 (the law will only affect new manufacture). With that being the case, banning WD40 would be more silly than prohibiting the backyard BBQ as big industry keeps on smoking away. It's not that I condone imperceptable polution, but come on. I was fishing a few years ago on B.C.'s Skeena R. off the mouth of the Kalum. My buddy & I were occasionlly putting a very small amount of WD40 on our large Spin N Glo/egg cluster combos. A coupe different boaters motored over and told us to stop it- which we did- not knowing that they had put many times the polution into the water just by motoring over to us. The next time an "environmentalist" OB motors up to my boat to tell me to put the can down I may explain these facts to him & offer to help him row his boat back to the ramp. I will probably take a little heat for that statement; a lot of uptight people in this world with skewed perspectives.- An article in "Beautiful British Columbia" mag., out of Victoria, suggested that the waterway polution coming out of Vanc., B.C. alone would be much more than all the world's fishermen put into the waterways! Don't know how they figure that, but it sure does put a little WD40 into perspective. And remember that it doesn't have chemical preservatives that are in bait oils which are sold to be put into the water. I am for a clean environment, but at what point do we stop living to prevent all polution. Extinction?- Steve P.S.- It is illegal in Oregon to clean fish entrils into the river. The game police ignore that too, knowing it is heatlthy for the ecosystem. Also seems I recall reading somewhere that in some states it is still technically illegal to have certain types of sex with your wife! Don't think it has anything to do with WD40 though.
[This message has been edited by Reel Truth (edited 03-30-2000).]
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