If another club is coming off the water the same time yours is, they probably are not permitted to do so. But I.F. do not know about any problems until it is brought to their attention. If someone were to call saying that another tournament came off the lake at the wrong time coinciding with their tourney which caused all kinds of problems, the tourney director would get a call asking never to do that again. For non-tourney boaters, that's a different situation. I will pass the suggestion up the line, I don't think it's a bad idea. Especially if it would make it easier for the tourney participants. For the tourney at Lattins last year, Bill Foreman specifically schedules tourneys to have differing weigh in times to prevent those exact problems. If there were three tourneys weighing in at the same time, then two of them were not supposed to be. In that case, if it was brought to the attention of Inland Fisheries, whoever was in the wrong would have been confronted. As far as I know, there were no tourneys going on at Lake Housatonic on the Forth of July. In my opinion, it violated the rights of anglers. From what you describe, they should have been given tickets and their cars towed. Why they were not, I have no idea. I would say that formal complaints should be filed with Boating. I don't think it's ok to violate that rights of anybody, even if it would cause havoc. I think morons that park like that should be ticketed and towed. There's really nothing that Inland Fisheries can do about that. Unless any problems are brought to the attention of Inland Fisheries, they don't know that they are happening. You say the squeaky wheel gets the grease, well if there are legitimate problems, call and report them. If nothing was done about the idiot-parking on the forth, I would report it to Boating. I have never seen anyone at Inland Fisheries take the past of least resistance. Myself and the people around me absolutely do not. If everyone could see the time and effort that is put into trying to solve every problem, you'd think differently, at least about Inland Fisheries.

If you have concerns, you should try to attend.

The Boating Advisory Meeting will be Wednesday, August 2, 2006 at 7:30PM at the DEP Marine Headquarters Library. The addess is 333 Ferry Road Old Lyme.

30 minute wait to trailer what ...12 bass boats... they made pretty good time I'd say. Joe Public couldn't trailer 12 boats that fast. The guy probably made up the other junk about trucks blocking everything.

I get the entire 1/2 the capacity of the parking lot rule - but I think our state launch parking lots should all have been bigger and I have to assume that they are intentionally kept small due to lake resident pressure. Look at the Bantum launch for example - they gotta be kidding me with that thing.

Were not getting a fair shake in CT.

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haaaaahahahahahahaa! Hey Buckcall, maybe if you'd learn how to spell, things wouldn't suck as much. Just Kidding. I just want to fish, BUT I CAN'T CUZ I'M STUCK LATE AT WORK EVERY NIGHT FIXING TOURNEY PROBLEMS!!!!!!!! OK I'm exaggerating....but seriously - I just want to fish, I don't think I've touched ANY plastics this year. I think I'm sleep deprived but I'd still rather be mud poutin by an open fire right now.

I truly enjoyed tourny fishing, however I have gievn up because too many bodies of water have been shut out to our club. I tried to encourage the club to form smaller divisions to open our opprotunities. The club declined that idea. I have since joined TU, and now fish for Bluegill with my 6 year old son. the time is better spent and I have more fun. I have also expanded my fishing options.