Thread: shut down means less fishing

Originally Posted by olddude

So, does this mean that the COE campgrounds are closed and therefore no access to the boat ramps there? Why? What about state parks, are they closed also?

State parks should not be affected.

Originally Posted by Gindog

My wife is a government employee and that all our income. May have to dig up the back yard if it go to long. I don't want obamacare either way. But what good for me should be good for the them (government) also. Now every state boat ramp will be full of knucklehead like me.

You know people talk about govt employees and most assume they make big money, but most of them I know fall in the lower salary range. 1 week off of work can put a real hurting on the family.

My heart goes out to those like mdperson and Gindog and their families. They get caught up in a mess that was none of their doing, and suffer the most because of partisan politics. I was just surfing the internet reading about the shutdown and saw a photo of a guy standing in front of the capitol in D.C. that said something like "Congress, do your job so I can do mine!" Obviously, a federal employee who got swept up in this mess. I bet our politicians continue to receive their paychecks, oblivious to what missing a regular weekly paycheck does to the working class! I say vote'em all out of office and the sooner the better! When's the next election?

Originally Posted by BigRiverMarine

I guess the. 90% that don't vote MIGHT wake up now and realize that their vote DOES count !!!!!

Only thing scary about that is they may join the 51% of the "uninformed" voters. Now where did I put my Obamaphone?
DP

I am with you there Md on not making the big bucks. But I not to sure how come they can close what we pay for with out taxs. Now I know they are the Government but we pay for it and I know that there someone standing at the gates keep us out of the parks. What the different being at gate stoping you from going in or let you in and make that dollar at the gate. Most people live payday to payday, I know there time we do. That why we eat fish about 2 time a week if I catch them. I seen this on the www2 vet
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Originally Posted by FIRECAMP

Hey nimrod. Is there anywhere you can launch? Iron bridge? The gravel ramp on south side?

Should be possiable if you don't mind dirt roads. Crock locking up ramps we have already paid to use!

I don't think that this will hurt the tournament at Dardenelle on the 12th.

Originally Posted by LRJoe1

I don't think that this will hurt the tournament at Dardenelle on the 12th.

Shouldn't. Dardanelle is State, at least as far as the launch ramps I've been to. Pretty sure Ouita is a state ramp. I know the State Park is state.