Corps Rumor about ramps

[occasionalfisher]

If this has been discussed elsewhere then ignore this, but I heard Friday that the Corps will now make you get a Corps permit to have tournaments at Gatewood and any other non-Corps ramp.
According to them this should have been happening all along because they own the water, but wasn't so now they are saying you need to. Now from the little Thursday tour my dad and I ran this year I know Corps passes can be a pain, so do you think this is them trying to limit the number of fishermen able to use the lake, or is it just them wanting as much money as they can extract from the ramps?

Just seems a little odd to me that all of a sudden this has to happen. Like I said I heard this from someone else, not sure how true it is, but what do you guys think?

[pheonix819]

I’ve heard the same and apparently it’s true, you know how our government is they will get as much money out of us as possible.

[scottpriest]

What he said. Someone realized they could extract a little more money out of people.

[ProMo]

I have wondered why all of the ramps had gone to 5.00, might have something to do with this. I also wonder since the Corp owns the water will this include all of the ramps such as the ones in the Marinas like Park Marina, Little River Marina, Holiday? It most likely will effect Cherokee Mills and Fieldstone which are Cherokee Parks Authority right now, but will those change since the Corps say they own the water? I hope all this money it will generate will be use to help our lake. Maybe re-open some of the beaches and day use areas, maybe even hire more Rangers to control the drunks on the lake and jerks running around at night without their lights on. This just might be a good thing, I think most of us would be all for it at long as it helps the Lake. Extend some ramps even when the drawdown comes, that alone would help generate more money because more boats could launch year around paying that 5.00 per pass.

[occasionalfisher]

ProMo I wish it was what you are saying, if we would see that money in action on the lake I am pretty sure not one person would care, but we never see the money doing anything.
It is amazing to me that this lake has so many closed areas even in the summer. Sure some of them were probably overbuilt to start with, but some of them I have never seen open since I have been fishing the lake.
I would love to see some ramps extended as well, but to me it seems like they want to push fishermen off the lake more than they want us there. Seems like all they want is for Lanier and Allatoona to be a playground for Atlanta in the warm months then almost barren the rest of the year.
Every decision you see the Corp make, like extending the no wake at Stamp Creek, seems to be driven by either money talking, or restricting the average people out of going to the lake.
I can't wait to see if this happens at Weiss too, because those folks will be a bit less forgiving than they are here. If it doesn't happen at Weiss, then maybe that tells us that the Corps really want to run as many fisherman off the lake as they can at Toona. I hope I am wrong, and I am not one of those people that believes all these crazy theories about things, but this one seems very legit to me.