Well, here's the way I see it...

Go ahead, CLA, charge us $50/year and here's what happens:
Boat traffic lessens because many decide it is not worth it.
Local stores lose money from people who used to buy food, drinks, ice, and gas before hitting the lake that now feel it is not worth ($$) the trip.
Oh, and your monies are a lot less than you projected, because you have less boaters.
The towns end up paying close to the same because the monies collected by the CLA are not near what they thought they would be.
Homeowners, who thought they were gonna get a break, now are paying what they were before the fee.

In the following years, other housing authorities throughout the state follow suit. To boat/fish within this state gets too expensive for the middle class and below (which we all know make up the majority of the boaters.) The fishing industry within CT tanks because what's the point of buying a boat, paying to register it, paying to put gas into it, buying fishing tackle, buying a fishing license, etc. if you have to pay to get on each individual lake?

Brilliant plan you have there CLA! Somebody want to present the DARWIN Award to these idiots?