Grimes Lake

Buzzy said:
Wittig Farms, LLC will not renew the lease with the state at Grimes due to a dispute between the the LLC and the state on a separate issue.

Sayonara Grimes. Going to miss you.
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What's the issue?

If I had known last year would be my last chance I would have squeezed in a trip. I was planning on hitting the opener this season. Special lake and would have liked to hit it one more time.

Hiking the BLM side doesn't look terrible. Once your on the water everything's cool....right?
 
Snopro said:
What's the issue?

If I had known last year would be my last chance I would have squeezed in a trip. I was planning on hitting the opener this season. Special lake and would have liked to hit it one more time.

Hiking the BLM side doesn't look terrible. Once your on the water everything's cool....right?
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I don't mind hiking my float tube into otherwise inaccessible lakes but hiking my pram into Grimes ain't in the cards. Doesn't matter anyway unless there's some kind of resolution to this f-bomb impasse.
 
As of now, no emergency regs have been applied. It's legal to fish 6/1. I wonder if WDFW will change that? It could create an interesting situation.
 
I figured the lake would still be open, there’s just no easy access.

Maybe Orvis can get a float plane guide service going. 😃
 
Snopro said:
As of now, no emergency regs have been applied. It's legal to fish 6/1. I wonder if WDFW will change that? It could create an interesting situation.
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You going to use a Sawzall to defeat a locked gate? 👍?
 
Buzzy said:
I suspect if you and I face off in the ring you'd have a knockout in a few seconds! ;-)

I'm going to argue: not all of our stillwater options here in the Basin (I don't know about east of us) are thrashed by the public. I've fished three lakes this spring that, while not PRISTINE, didn't have much human waste everywhere. And like @Stonedfish, I haul other peoples beer cans and bottles back to my truck on my hikes back.

I do hike my float tube into lakes, many times a year but Grimes isn't one I want to float tube in (Been there, done that); it's large enough and often with sudden STRONG winds that I want the option of hauling ass in my pram to the launch. I'm also no spring chicken anymore. Besides, with a float tube when nature calls, it's a shore trip.

Back to the start of this thread: The loss of lease issue has nothing to do with the budget, nor with un-sportsman like sportsmen, or fire danger or any other failure of WDFW/the state. Wittig Farms, LLC will not renew the lease with the state at Grimes due to a dispute between the the LLC and the state on a separate issue.

Sayonara Grimes. Going to miss you.


ps. Personally: I'd pay a management company a daily use fee if I could just drive my damn truck to that so-called launch.
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I’m a pacifist these days, lol. It’s a stupid argument anyhow. I love these lakes, you love these lakes, that’s all that matters. I’m very discouraged by the states lack of desire to keep the basin lakes as good as they have been in the not so distant past, and I’m not sure the royal “they” have the will to care. It’s all rolling downhill so fucking fast I get anxiety about it.
 
With all this discussion, is this a lahontan cut lake, or rainbows, or …
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