I hate to disagree with you Orvis But it will do nothing to detract the number of boaters. Have you noticed the size of the boats on the water they are mostly 25- 30 feet long.

There are around 4000 boats moored on the lake they are paying $100 dollars a foot plus tax do you think another $50 is going to stop them? I know once you think of it you know it will not.

The State will only give a permit for 50% of the launch parking. The DEP hand book lists 100 boats for each launch. The most boats that can be on the water for a tournament from the two state ramps are 100 boats.

That amounts to one boat for every 50 Acres or 1 boat for every 3120 feet of shoreline. Surely you can find some room to fish in between them. The one day tournament guys can get a reduced fee of $20 or $30 for the one or two days. This again is not a real deterrent to come to the best Lake in the state.

Yes it will stop some people the guys that are retired and living on a fixed income the guys with little expendable income, a family that wants to go fishing in general those that can not afford additional tax burden. Are these the people you want to keep of a lake that is federally mandated. Some of these same families may be descendents of some of the people that lived in the area and had their property seized by Eminent Domain laws when the lake was created. Rules and Regulations were introduced then to ensure access for all not just the wealthy.

Once this is enacted you will no longer be able to fish for multiple species at different lakes. Every Lake homeowners group will try to get the some fee to try to keep people off their lake. What is to stop them from making the fee $100 -200.

I think we already pay enough taxes to use the lake
$ 20 Fishing License
$ 45 Boat registration
$ 18 dollar trailer registration
$ 20 – 50 Trailer taxes
Taxes on the Gas we use in our boats
6% sales tax on everything we purchase related to fishing
On top of that there are the Wallop-Breaux taxes usually 10% on every fishing and boating item that you purchase. These are paid at the Manufacturer level