Twin Lakes (south east)

[wiperhunter2]

I hear ya on the rant part but it's about all you can do when you see injustices like this. We see it all around us and it's what drives some folks into politics, just to stand up for our rights. I think most of us totally understand the Quagga Mussel issues and no one is complaining about protecting our waterways but lets get real, there has to be a compromise between that water users association and the sportsman, so that this can work for everyone. With the amount of time and expense put out, just to go out of your way to fish these lakes, you would think they would try and make it a little easier. I'm sure it is a numbers game to them, likely because there simply isn't enough people fishing these lakes to justify adding an extra inspection station. I remember when you brought up this issue years ago, I thought something would change with the amount of time and effort you and others spent, trying to come up with an answer, it's really too bad nothing was accomplished. I'm sure if they had one or two bass fishing events there every year, the kind of money even a small event would generate, would change their minds but IMO theses lakes are just to small to have any big tournaments there. You would think for the few months a year these lakes are open to the boating public and the amount of money they are charging to launch there the water users could come up with some plan to fix this problem. I know no one likes to pay higher fees, just to fish waters like these but with the amount of out of you way driving, to get an inspection and not being able to get an early start, I would think some would be willing to pay a little higher price to launch there, if the water users would pay to have an inspector on site there at least at one of those lakes, just or at few months they are open. I'm thinking a 25 or 30 dollars fee, just for the purpose of paying someone to be there for the inspection during the Summer. That would be and extra 5 or 10 dollars that would go to pay that person doing the inspection and if the water users kicked in another $5, they could justify it because of the additional boats that came there. They could even do a trial run at it for one season just to see if it worked out. It would be a decent Summer job for someone. Even if this idea did not appeal to the water users, you would hope that something like this would.