Bluegrass

[Tilster]

Somehow I always get sucked into reading your novels. I try to stop myself, I do...but somehow I just keep reading. I too have seen those two ladies fishing the ramp on several occasions. Every single time, they are quick to move for me and are super nice to talk to. Doesn't bother me a bit. Besides, didn't you start your rant about the ladies "hogging" the ramp by saying YOU like to fish from the ramp but couldn't because they were there?? So they have to pick up a lawn chair to move for you to dump your boat...big whoop. Sounds like you're just butt hurt over them being there before you...

[Moveon]

Somehow I always get sucked into reading your novels. I try to stop myself, I do...but somehow I just keep reading. I too have seen those two ladies fishing the ramp on several occasions. Every single time, they are quick to move for me and are super nice to talk to. Doesn't bother me a bit. Besides, didn't you start your rant about the ladies "hogging" the ramp by saying YOU like to fish from the ramp but couldn't because they were there?? So they have to pick up a lawn chair to move for you to dump your boat...big whoop. Sounds like you're just butt hurt over them being there before you...

I get out of the way if I'm fishing on the ramp. I don't park in the handicapped spot either. Which was my main beef with them. And you failed to even mention that. I guess you are not handicapped or don't know anyone that's handicapped and still tries to fish. And the Blond is nice. I was referring to the dark headed girl. She's the quiet one and won't talk much. The blond is friendly. And yes they moved right away. But they dark haired one moved right where I was going to park the boat and tied up to the rail so that I could go park my vehicle and not have the boat drift away accidentally. What I was saying is that when anyone is on the ramp it's easily to break my routine and make me forget something like the safety chain. That was the first time I had launched my boat in two years and I was out of my routine.

My main beef is that there are just people every where you look when you got to Bluegrass on the weekends these days. It's impossible to get away from people. And for me that's one of the reasons I use to go to Bluegrass was to get away from all the people. I use to enjoy the place when it was trolling motor only and there were fewer people out there. The deer would come down to the edge of the water to drink and beaver would swim on the surface of the water at dusk without fear. And the fishing was better back then as there were not so many boats to contend with. It was more peaceful. And one didn't have to worry about some other boat going by making waves that rocked your boat while you were trying to fish.

So it's not any one individual that I'm talking about so to speak. Those two girls are just an example of all the over crowding that's going on out there. I just chose to stop going as much as I just don't enjoy it as much as I did in the past. I thought the same thing about Patoka Lake when it FIRST OPENED. There was a **** boat in every cove at Patoka Lake when it first Opened and it's still like that on the Weekends. But I love fishing Patoka Lake. Now I go on the weekdays as I'm retired and can fish when I choose.

I grew up fishing on Kentucky Lake in the late 1950's. It was wild back then. We stayed in a one room cabin in the middle of a cow pasture and had to walk a half mile from the cabin to the boat dock in order to go fishing. To me fishing is rustic. It's a way to get some solitude. And KY lake was like that back in the 1950's. We have too many people these days. Over 7 Billion on this earth and it's causing more problems IMHO.

Now if you want to go to a park and enjoy being around people then fine that's your thing. But I'm more into being out in the fields, woods or lake with few people around. That's just the way I like it. I'm not saying that you have to be like that. Not at all. I'm just expressing what I like and don't like. I'm just venting if you will.

So don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that those girls don't have a right to fish at the ramp. They have every right to be there as anyone else. But the rules do stay to not park near the ramp which I think means don't block the ramp. And parking in the handicapped parking spot is a BIG NO NO. I'm surprised that they have not been given a citation for that already.

And if you think I'm too wordy then you won't be the first one to tell me that. But that's the way I am. I type fast and it's easy for me to type long essays. It's a way to practice my typing skills and keep them up to date. I don't make anyone read my posts. You are free to just ignore them and not read them. But I will usually respond if you make a comment.

Bottom line. Go have fun and enjoy yourselves. I am reducing my time out there and I'm ok with that. That will give more room to the people that are out there now. I've fished Bluegrass since it first opened out there to the public and if you have been fishing it that long you too would see the changes that have occurred. Some days it's hard to find a parking spot for the Boat trailer at Bluegrass pit on the weekends.

And yes I would sometimes enjoy fishing the ramp at dusk like I used to. But I like to fly fish and if those two girls are there I can't do that. So I normally just go back home. I don't need to fish that badly. I have many other things to keep me busy these days. Which is why I have not fished Bluegrass at all in 2014 and only went there one time this year. I enjoy driving around the place and taking pictures of the wildlife. My freezer is still full of crappie fillets from a few years ago.

[Moveon]

Somehow I always get sucked into reading your novels. I try to stop myself, I do...but somehow I just keep reading. I too have seen those two ladies fishing the ramp on several occasions. Every single time, they are quick to move for me and are super nice to talk to. Doesn't bother me a bit. Besides, didn't you start your rant about the ladies "hogging" the ramp by saying YOU like to fish from the ramp but couldn't because they were there?? So they have to pick up a lawn chair to move for you to dump your boat...big whoop. Sounds like you're just butt hurt over them being there before you...

There is nothing better to read in the IN forum. Seriously man. There are almost zero posts in here worth looking at. Look at the KY form and see how they roll. I enjoy reading the KY form as there is more content in that State forum than in the IN forum. I'm only really interested in reading about Patoka Lake and Bluegrass as those are the two lakes that I like to fish. But I also fish KY and Barkley Lakes. I just can't fish them as much these days. But I still enjoy reading about them.

And I'm putting Toomanycasts on my block list. I'm pretty sure I won't miss anything of importance from him by doing that. And I would suggest if you don't want to read my essays that you do the same thing. I really am not posting in here for people that don't want to read what I post. I'd rather just block you than argue with you.