I'm still angry about this..

68 years of age, and have been fishing Wono/Lakeville since 1970.. I was 13.

Hopefully the ramp is reopened, but I'm not holding my breath.

DEEP should not stock anything until boat launch is opened back up.

Always vote for any land acquisition proposal just so you can have access. A 100 years ago the state should have been buying small parcels of land on all of these natural glacial lakes so they could build boat launches for access. Even when they did they still get rolled over on boat launch proposals like at Lake Waramaug and the state Park where there was a perfect spot for a double wide deep water boat launch, with an empty field across the street for parking over 100 trucks/trailer rigs, and a DEP Inland Fisheries proposal to build this boat launch that had been submitted for DEP approval. The towns found out about it and lobbied Gov. Rowland and he capitulated to them. He ordered the DEP Commissioner, Arthur Rocque (sic?), to give the Town of Washington $100,000 to expand their town launch with additional parking of only a few spaces and not much more, and then open the launch up to the public (which is mandated by the courts anyways under the Constitution's 1st Amendment's Right to Assemble). This launch is open in the morning for a few hours, then shut down during the middle of the day, and open again in the afternoon so boaters can pull their boats out. Very poor service to the public and the Town's residents.
We had the same kind of problem down the road at Bantam Lake when the DEEP lost their lease on a Town of Morris owned boat launch. The town refused to renew the lease in an attempt to limit its use to residents only. We got that over-turned when AG Blumenthal threatened the Town of Morris's 1st Selectman to being subjected to both criminal and civil charges due to violating the Constitutional rights of non-resident persons. The DEEP decided to buy the dance hall/marina on Bantam and use that boat launch as the state launch.
If the state had balls it would go nuclear with an eminent domain claim on The Grove area where the boat launch is located which the town owns and acquire access that way. There could be other more easy solutions such as claiming a Prescriptive Easement argument to continue the use of the boat launch. In any case, someone with deep pockets needs to come forward and sue the town.