Bad News from Indiana

[Fishhead]

Its going to keep more of the pleasure boaters who only go out 2-3 times a year off the water there and put them on the river. I think T's with under 15 boats can still fish it, but 15 and over must get the permit.

I buy the yearly pass every year anyway, btw B-ville has some of the best fishing and the largest watershed within 50 minutes of NKY, 5000acres and 50 minutes from garage to ramp for me. Starting end of May early June I fish there nearly every weekend and some weeknights. When summer hit you will find me on B-ville every Friday night from 9pm to 10am Sat., then again on Sat night if I'm up to it, It can be awesome!

The weeds are growing fast in B-ville and spreading fast, Zebra mussels are clearing the water even more. Last year there was at least 3 times as much weedbeds as the year before, hopefully it will spread as much this year again. If they don't do something stupid like try to kill off the weeds for the play babies there could be some fantastic SM & LM fishing there in the next 2-5 years. As it is I caught a lot of quality LM & SM from B-ville the last 4 years, biggest SM at B-ville so far at 5-10 and LM at 6-14. good lake to fish, if you do your homework and spend the time to learn it.

In a few years it could peak similar to KY Lake when the weeds really came up there in the late 80's early 90's. Remember when BASS fished KY Lake and Rick Clunn won with that huge bag of SM he caught on suspending jerks? If they don't do something stupid like try to kill off the weeds for the play babies there could be some fantastic SM & LM fishing there in the next 2-5 years.

[toby]

Where is this lake? I live in NKY and have never heard of it.

[Fishhead]

Take 74 west, get off at the 1st Brookville exit, I think its either Rt 52 or 1 north. Anyways, follow that right up through downtown Brookville. go past the town, go straight through all the lights and keep going. You'll see all the different state park signs for ramps, camping, etc. Its almost exactly 45 minutes from the 275 Bridge at lawrencburg to the Bonwell ramp.

[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