Bluegills Above the Dam

[Xraydude]

I’d heard someone had a problem showing their license to workers who weren’t conservation agents, and it stopped.  Matches the anti-authority world we live in now. 

[tjm]

I thought they stopped asking during the Covid lay offs and I thought they had just suspended the requirement for fishing licenses for a while?

Regardless it's in the regulations what permits are needed and it's the angler's responsibility to buy them, if you buy the tag without the permit and get checked it's you that pays the fine, not the sales agent.

[T.J. Clarke]

They scrapped the swimming pool. It sits there covered in buzzard poop and fish bones.

Sad, we had lots of fun at the pool in our teens.    I am old enough to remember when Roaring River had a pool.  

[mic]

I wouldn't poo poo the park for the pool too much.  Small towns every where are having issues keeping pools opened.  If the insurance doesn't get them, then a major upgrade will eventually.  When the great recession government spending cuts happened, it took out a lot of amenities out that didn't pay for themselves.  

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, mic said:

I wouldn't poo poo the park for the pool too much.  Small towns every where are having issues keeping pools opened.  If the insurance doesn't get them, then a major upgrade will eventually.  When the great recession government spending cuts happened, it took out a lot of amenities out that didn't pay for themselves.  

I don't personally care about the pool.....but it's just another thing.... 

They can't blame government cuts, or recession, or Covid.   Not with a straight face anyway.     

Hell, what they spent on all of those idiotic looking contraptions to keep RV's from driving over the bridge, ( ya know, the one that isn't a bridge anymore), was likely more than any pool upgrade could have cost.    Neither the bridge, nor the stupid roadblock contraptions had any chance to "pay for themselves".

They certainly didn't have any trouble funding the expansion of the cabins and RV site area.

[mic]

55 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

I don't personally care about the pool.....but it's just another thing.... 

They can't blame government cuts, or recession, or Covid.   Not with a straight face anyway.     

Hell, what they spent on all of those idiotic looking contraptions to keep RV's from driving over the bridge, ( ya know, the one that isn't a bridge anymore), was likely more than any pool upgrade could have cost.    Neither the bridge, nor the stupid roadblock contraptions had any chance to "pay for themselves".

They certainly didn't have any trouble funding the expansion of the cabins and RV site area.

Yes... but that is funding source... the pool wasn't.