It is bogus to say there are no ramp fees on Candlewood. Every town charges a fee to their residents to use the town ramp for launching. The last year I bought a town launch pass in New Fairfield it was $60 bucks. It is probably a $100 bucks now. I now buy the annual state launch pass which allows me to use any state launch without paying the daily fee. The Squantz and Lattins Cove launches both collect money though they have a flawed system of not collecting for early launchers who are there before the gate house opens up. There are easy fixes to that, a window pass so if you launched early you pay on the way out. Any marina will also charge for daily launching and yearly launching is built into your slip fee.
The only "free" launching on Candlewood or Squantz Pond is the early bird who beats the gate house fee collector and that is easily fixed.