I like what you have to say Rob.

Personally I have been inspected only twice where they actually looked at my kickboat and both of those were by EBRPD once at the Quarry Ponds and once at Contra Loma.

The Clear Lake inspections are a joke but Lake County has figured a way to charge a launch fee finally. However, I think kickboats and float tubes are exempt from the inspections at Clear Lake.
Here is a post about the new protocol at CL on the SCBBBC forum that mentions it http://scbbbc.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=3976581

Pinto lake is inspecting now too. http://www.pintolake.com/
Now that's a joke! As far as I know there is no inlet or outlet at Pinto and sure as hell nobody should be drinking out of there. A mussel infestation there might even clean up that pee green soup.

MT