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I thought that would get your attention.
Yeh, it's about Lk Tapps. Many 'bank' fishermen and women have used the shorelines and Puget Sound Energy dikes the last couple of years for fishing and just taking a walk. I usually pick up some trash along these dikes on my fishing trips but lately it's way out of hand. My last trip and in only one cove filled two garbage bags plus many large objects that took up the floor of my boat for the rest of the day.
The main point I'm going to make here is that these folks are trespassing. The signs have been torn down but it's always been 'no trespassing' on these dikes.
Denny Bilderback(N. Tapps Pierce Co Park manager)and I had a long talk a week or so ago and he stated that many people even come into the park during closed hours via the PSE dikes and this is also trespassing. Denny said some of these folks have a lot of nerve climbing over or around fences to enter a closed park only to leave trash of let their dogs defacate.
Lk Tapps is like many other lakes as in it does not lend it'self well to shore fishing with all the private lands.
My recomendation to these folks is to use the park during 'legal, open' hours and come in through the main gate and pick up your garbage.
Fishermen have got to stick together(boat & bank) as one on these issues or we could find ourselves with closed gates. We've already got certain hours of use for the park simply because of problems similar to what I stated above. Lets not make it any tougher to fish than it already is.
Thank You
Mark
Yeh, it's about Lk Tapps. Many 'bank' fishermen and women have used the shorelines and Puget Sound Energy dikes the last couple of years for fishing and just taking a walk. I usually pick up some trash along these dikes on my fishing trips but lately it's way out of hand. My last trip and in only one cove filled two garbage bags plus many large objects that took up the floor of my boat for the rest of the day.
The main point I'm going to make here is that these folks are trespassing. The signs have been torn down but it's always been 'no trespassing' on these dikes.
Denny Bilderback(N. Tapps Pierce Co Park manager)and I had a long talk a week or so ago and he stated that many people even come into the park during closed hours via the PSE dikes and this is also trespassing. Denny said some of these folks have a lot of nerve climbing over or around fences to enter a closed park only to leave trash of let their dogs defacate.
Lk Tapps is like many other lakes as in it does not lend it'self well to shore fishing with all the private lands.
My recomendation to these folks is to use the park during 'legal, open' hours and come in through the main gate and pick up your garbage.
Fishermen have got to stick together(boat & bank) as one on these issues or we could find ourselves with closed gates. We've already got certain hours of use for the park simply because of problems similar to what I stated above. Lets not make it any tougher to fish than it already is.
Thank You
Mark
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Comment by Brett h Olson on June 14, 2009 at 8:55pm
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I think the part about the litter is a great piont however trespassing? many homeowners , joggers, dog-walkers and some pretty good fishermen have been using these dikes longer than y ou've been in this state well over twenty years I've actually called pierce county and puget power and both have told me as long as vandalism or crimes are not being commited there fine with public dike use Iuse the dike all the time and am very appreiciative that i can Mark makes us dike users out to be criminals which i find ironic but as far as litter goeswe all need to be stewards
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Comment by Roy E. Hawes on June 11, 2009 at 6:38pm
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only a dike would know which dike is allowed and which one isnt...dont worry nick I got your back.
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Comment by NickBarrFishing.com on June 8, 2009 at 8:48am
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C'mon Eric, I thought you would come up with a little better one than that.
I totally agree with you Mark, I have never fished Tapps, but lakes down here in Olympia area have a big problem with that. The boat launches need cleaning and the drug dealers need to stay out. The THS Fishing club, we have been doing clean-ups every once in awhile to help with this problem, but I believe that those public launches need at least 1 trash can.
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Comment by Mark Wells on June 7, 2009 at 7:28pm
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Misselley,
We all owe you and your family a big thanx for the two seperate weekends you guys spent picking up trash around Lk Tapps. Thank You and I speak for Cascade Musky Association.
Speaking of parking - that little parking area that used to be a building foundation is also 'No Trespassing' and cars are being towed according to Denny. The property owners along that area are(from what Denny said)sick and tired of it and the problems associated with it.
Denny did tell me that the park's dumpster was open to whoever needed to dump trash that they picked from the lakeshore. Denny's always been great to the fishermen in the area.
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