Bad News from Indiana

[bkehl]

Southern Indiana, East of Jasper, or Find Tell City go north.

[Team9nine]

I agree, I think it's a good thing. Much easier to implement, much easier to enforce, and more fair than the old system. Gone are the days of some poor guy showing up at the ramp at 4AM just to collect from the bass tourney guys and then going home at 7:30A while the rest of the recreational boaters launch free :)

No gripes here...

-Team9

[WaubeeCharlie]

It's ok for all of you who fish these DNR water controlled water offen. Here in northern Indiana we don't have any of these type body of waters with ramps that are run by the DNR. So if I get to even one of them a year I have just got screwed. No I just won't fish them and that we be $5.00 or $10.00 less the state will get from me. If they were my home waters that would be different to were I would get my use from them. So no camping, hotels, gas, food from the area around them as well. The locals can rent the rooms, camp, buy your food from the lakes area this will help out the merchants in these lake areas. Less out of state license sales. Bait shops that fight to keep open won't mind the lack of people comeing to thier shops. So it must be a good thing to keep the others off the lake so you can have it more to yourselfs ??? OK!

[Team9nine]

That's one way of looking at it Charlie, and you might be right and they lose some revenue. But it could also be argued that the opposite will occur, because once the permit is bought, you will now have an unlimited number of trips you can make for that one price, causing some people to take advantage of that and actually camp/drive/go more where they might not otherwise have if they still paid to launch by the day.

Only time will tell. Besides, look on the bright side, you're still money ahead; Because of your location you've been launching free all these years while the rest of us had to pay to fish local ;)

-T9

[Big E]

The fee seems to me to be a great idea. It will collect money from boats that sit in the marina every year all year without using the ramps. Just my thoughts.

[lov2fish]

There are no smallies in B-Ville, stay in Kentucky.



Ray Rigby