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Hate that for you. Hopefully like you said another door opens to even better fishing opportunities.
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Weekly meetup , End of an Era
Met my fishing buddy at West Point lake this morning.
Weather was nice except for the wind of course, 8-18mph .
Water was up , almost full pool . Problem was the Corp of Engineers raised it over two feet in two days . Probably to get the lake ready for Memorial Day Weekend coming up .
I only caught 17 small gills , warmouth and green sunfish.
As we were packing up to leave , the Corp of Engineers park ranger pulled up .
We’d seen him at a different ramp earlier, I had waved , and he waved back .
This time he had a person with him.
He announced we had to leave and weren’t allowed to fish from the boat ramps anymore.
We were told we were in violation of park rules .
He wouldn’t listen to reason , I gave up pleading my case , and told him to have a nice day .
What had changed?
Then I remembered a guy with a jet ski had pulled across the top of the ramp , then parked without getting out , for at least 20-30 minutes . He then drove over to the other set of boat ramps on the west side of the park .
When he drove up , i immediately picked up my stool and placed it off the ramp and moved over to the rocks to fish waiting for him to launch.
I wondered why he never launched . I’m thinking , he called and reported my fishing buddy and I for fishing off the ramp . I’m pretty sure it was what happened.
In three years , we’ve never had a problem with anyone .
When one door closes , one opens .
Guess this is going to force me to get my boat out and fish the local reservoirs.
Hate it . We had some great days fishing down there .
I asked the ranger how two old men are supposed to bank fish safely .
He told me they had handicap piers where we could fish . I told him seriously? Have you seen those concrete platforms 20 feet above the water level ? There’s no way to seriously fish off of something like that .
Better days ahead !
Best of the day
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Hate that for you. Hopefully like you said another door opens to even better fishing opportunities.
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I hate that. Karen and Darren mess over a lot of people, whining about whatever.
Glad that you had a pretty good last trip together. Some nice fish in those pics. In my case I wasn’t told I couldn’t fish there anymore, they just took all the fish home with em.
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Sorry to hear about the cry baby...Some folks make want to play ma Bell...You know, Reach out and touch someone.
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Hate to read this as I always enjoyed your ramp fishing posts. Now I’ll look for your boating success stories!
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I totally vacated the left side of the double ramp for him as soon as he drove up .Originally Posted by Jamesdean
If he’d asked , we would have given him both lanes .
Guess he was afraid to confront a couple of elderly men with UL fishing poles in their hands. wimp
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There will always be some crybabies out there.
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We’ve talked it over and have decided we’re not going let them run us off the best location for us to meet and fish .
It’s almost midway between where we live .
We’re going to adapt our tactics and find new places to fish .
Let y’all know how it goes.
I did love that ramp fishing .
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Ramp fishing is good no doubt. In TN many boat ramps are posted with no fishing. Some of them belong to the Corp and some belong to the state. And I have been known to fish ramps that were posted. Hope you can continue to find ramps to fish.
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I’m kinda glad you’re going to try for another way to enjoy the time with your friend. I don’t like a confrontation or getting angry but it’s a bum deal that they’re flexing on y’all. Fish on you two!
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