Quote Originally Posted by idbefishing View Post
Geist and Morse are owned by the water company which leases the ramp to the marina. They are semi-private lake and are managed by IDNR, the town police patrols them along with the DNR, the resident gets to launch their boat for free. They set the price so high on the weekend to keep the number of non-resident boaters down. They're the only lakes within the Indy metro area large enough for pleasure boating. Therefore, on the weekend it's nutkingfut anyway despite the outrageous ramp fee.
The $27 dollar weekend fee doesn't take effect until Memorial weekend, or the weekend before, through Labor day. Then after Labor day it goes back down to $11 all the time. I heard the DNR tried to buy ramp land 25 or 30 years ago but couldn't get the ok to buy it because it was so expensive. Missed opportunity there... These reservoirs are supposed to be for public use, not to be bought up by people. My gripe is our DNR puts a boat on that water to enforce laws, our fishing lisence money pays for that but we can't use it unless we pay an outrageous fee. I don't believe our DNR should patrol those waters, let the homeowners pay for that, not me.... I'm done.....