Re: Waiting for Labor Day weekend stories.
Well, time for another rant. I was supposed to be fishing an online tourney (just a simple lil' gig on another forum, where the forum owner, has lots o' money, and likes giving it away to fellow forum members. So, he has a couple contests on the holidays, basically you snap a pic, with a secret item that he announces at the start of the weekend, so you can't prefish and cheat)
Well, I wasn't about to be out on Allatoona (large reservoir a couple minutes away) So, we go to a smaller electric only lake that spills over into Allatoona (it is a nice place, with LOTSA grass, and good cover, that spills over into the bare nothingness of Allatoona. Amazing what a simple concrete wall can separate) It is a park for a town neighboring to ours. So, it has a nice parking lot, with lots of playgrounds, and walk trails, and they have events every holiday. But, the boat ramp is just an old road leading down the hill, from before the lake was there. And, there is just an overgrown gravel parking lot for the boat ramp.
Well, we pull in at about 7:30 (events apparently start at 8 - first time being there on a holiday) and they have this huge festival set up. Then, we get over to the end, where the ramp is, and they have 3 raffle trucks parked in the middle of the ramp. So, there are a couple of teenagers with an old beat up 14er (with the dixie flags and all) who had carried their boat to the water, and then parked the trailer in a school a mile away. We had backed to the grassy embankment, and were gonna carry it off, and the guy that pulled in behind us talked to the people setting up, and they said no boats on the lake, and you better get out of here, before they shut the gate (only shuttles allowed after eight) Dam. That sucks. So we get out, knowing that we will have to wait till 5 to get out, when the gate opens, to pull out, and we had things to do, about noon. Guess where we are never going on a holiday. What really irks me, is that no one bother telling us that we couldn't do that, just watched. There were 3 jon boats lined up ready to slide down the grass, and the guys waited for someone to ask, before commenting. I can understand it, but am still annoyed. If they let us in, they would have to have someone at the other gate (the only open one was at the far end from the ramp, to let shuttles in) If they left it open, they would have to many non boating people bring their cars in, and, the number of trailers might cause a parking situation. But still, there was no bulletin on any of the local fishing boards, nothing. That is what annoys me.
Rant over.
