{"id":2541,"date":"2026-01-29T20:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2026-03-08T23:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:05:26","slug":"important-update-on-wake-boat-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/?p=2541","title":{"rendered":"Important Update on Wake Boat Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2541\" class=\"elementor elementor-2541\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-80064db elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"80064db\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-500a115\" data-id=\"500a115\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d526ef4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d526ef4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Updated 3\/8\/26) The devastating wake boat proposals failed in the legislative sessions recently. The outpouring of emails, phone calls, and large hearings&#8217; attendance all helped to get the word out. No action was taken by the Assembly nor Senate but there were close calls and the item will most likely resurface in the next session. A substitute bill was presented that met with the various lake groups&#8217; approval, but that was not passed either. Lobbying has really helped ih this issue, too. Be prepared for more on this legislation. 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The outpouring of emails, phone calls, and large hearings&#8217; attendance all helped to get the word out. No action was taken by the Assembly nor Senate but there were close calls and the item will most likely resurface in the next session. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/?p=2541\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2553,"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions\/2553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}