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Discussion => The No Wake Zone => Topic started by: muffbro on August 16, 2013, 05:04:07 PM

Title: launch Fees
Post by: muffbro on August 16, 2013, 05:04:07 PM
just curious what launch fees are in various locations.....

today for example at Bay Springs Lake Mississippi.....it's 3.00 per boat.
Trace Lake -$7.00
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: Horizonjet on August 16, 2013, 05:25:37 PM
The lakes around Phoenix are 10.00.  7.00 per vehicle and 3.00 more per watercraft. I went to big lake on Colorado river and it was 25.00
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: tamsone6 on August 16, 2013, 05:31:55 PM
Horizonjet what lake do you usually go to?


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Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: Horizonjet on August 16, 2013, 05:52:21 PM
Pleasant just because I can hitch up, gas up and be on the water in 30 min. Canyon is my favorite though.  Are you around here?
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: tamsone6 on August 16, 2013, 06:05:36 PM
Yeah, I work up in Prescott. Usually come down to pleasant because it's closer. I still have to go check out Bartlett, heard its nice.


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Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: Horizonjet on August 16, 2013, 06:08:07 PM
Last I heard Bartlett was so low the ramps were out of the water and had a lot of junk floating in the water. Let me know next time you go to pleasant
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: tamsone6 on August 16, 2013, 06:18:39 PM
Probably next weekend. I'll let you know though. Pleasant seemed pretty low last time I was there too.


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Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: Horizonjet on August 16, 2013, 06:29:03 PM
Ya its that time of the year
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: 88hotboat on August 17, 2013, 05:59:38 AM
I'm in northern middle Tennessee and never heard of a launch fee. We do have a place that you can pay $50.00 for the year but its private property owned by the slip owners, but theres a ton of places to put in at. I boat on the Cumberland river and water levels are always fine even if we have a dry spell so theres always plenty of options at no cost.
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: bjaming on August 18, 2013, 05:33:46 PM
10 bucks a day at McIntyre near Blythe, 25 at the Riv, free on the other side of the river with a dirt ramp.
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: Trukinbear on August 18, 2013, 05:43:20 PM
$6.00 day up in Crescent City harbor - Here: Requa $10.00 day free with tribal, Old Klamath townsite free except during commercial salmon season, Klamath Glenn free paid for by game and fish.
Humboldt bay: Eureka free, Samoa free, and King Salmon free.
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: mayhem35 on August 18, 2013, 06:44:19 PM
Man, some of u guys have it pretty cheap. Launch fees at lake Elsinore are $25. :screwy:
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: tamsone6 on August 18, 2013, 07:11:40 PM
Wow that's super expensive. I almost can't stand paying the ten it is here.


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Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: tamsone6 on August 18, 2013, 07:13:05 PM
Wow that's super expensive. I almost can't stand paying the ten it is here.


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Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: farmergord on August 19, 2013, 08:35:57 AM
Big River is $25.00 per day
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: Trukinbear on August 19, 2013, 11:28:01 AM
Ouch! $25 is a bite! What do you get for that? Secure parking? Floating comfort stations like at Trinity Lake? Dock space? An invasive species inspection?
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: stc315 on August 19, 2013, 01:23:32 PM
Fishers landing in Yuma is free!

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Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: AQUAHOLIC on August 19, 2013, 01:31:25 PM
25$ per boat per day at willow valley
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: muffbro on August 19, 2013, 02:27:33 PM
 :o MOTHER OF  JAYSUS  :o  there's some high fees to launch a boat out there..... 

 I don't get 25.00 ducats ANYWHERE.....   

3.00 bucks at the primary lake I go to and a fifty buck "gold" membership get's you a year.

even the $7.00 at what I call the local "splash lake" (that's 15 minutes from my house) is kinda high in my opinion.... but the Park Rangers there will wave it when I come in after 4pm or so.....



Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: MID-LAKE-CRISIS on August 19, 2013, 03:13:23 PM

 try these ones;
 
 $40.00 @ Chestermere Lake  per/day
 (not a lake, just a bloated weed infested part of an irrigation canal)
 that the locals want to keep to themselves / they can have it  :thumbdown:

 Free @ Ghost Reservoir  (part of the Bow River in Alberta)
 better launch and docks, "PLUS" a shed full of life jackets
 so no one boats without one.  :thumbup:


Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: AQUAHOLIC on August 19, 2013, 04:05:16 PM
its 25$ at willow cause its a private marina. they want to keep the weekenders from launching there and clogging up the boat ramp for the local home owners who pay dues to use the ramp. so it actually works out nicely.
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: jetjunky101 on August 19, 2013, 04:22:04 PM
California = fees,fees, and more fees  :banghead:
I understand the private launch fees ...so home owners have there launch ramp anytime they want !!! I would make it $50 so LESS outsiders would launch  :thumbup:
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: AQUAHOLIC on August 19, 2013, 04:33:41 PM
ya 4th of july weekend there was over an hour wait for the launch ramp.
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: mayhem35 on August 19, 2013, 05:37:14 PM
At least Elsinore doesn't check for those pesky little mussel's....that way if you do wash out your engine compartment and it doesn't dry completely, you can still go enjoy a day on the lake without getting turned away! (Perris and Silverwood) but that's a whole different topic. :banghead: :beer:
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: Horizonjet on August 19, 2013, 10:51:02 PM
Ouch! $25 is a bite! What do you get for that? Secure parking? Floating comfort stations like at Trinity Lake? Dock space? An invasive species inspection?

All you get is a nifty little paper to put on your dash...lol!
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: 19ftspectra on August 19, 2013, 11:00:58 PM
i go to lake success  most of the time  and it is 4 bucks  a day or  30  for  a year pass that will get you into most of the middle valley /   central ca  lakes   but that is way  up there.. lol  :banghead:
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: GottaJet on August 21, 2013, 04:58:33 PM
Castaic $24 pretty strict on the mussel inspection
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: BIG JOHNSON on August 21, 2013, 06:51:39 PM
$199/mo covers my indoor dry stack and unlimited launches with the forklift. Courtesy slips for going back home across the street from the marina to make lunch.
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: Trukinbear on August 21, 2013, 08:09:07 PM
$199/mo covers my indoor dry stack and unlimited launches with the forklift. Courtesy slips for going back home across the street from the marina to make lunch.
OUCH! I really dig the cross the street to make lunch part but wow! $199 mo.... My boat didn't cost that much! LOL
I'd hate to run into that situation without having a choice (which I'm sure you did) otherwise.

Reminds me of many years ago when I first got some money in my pocket and I went down to the Chevy dealer to make an offer on that shiny blue new Corvette Stingray I'd been eyeballin since it came off the truck - I'd done the math over and over and I KNEW that I could afford it. I made a sweet deal with the dealer, smiles all around until it was time for me to leave. Well you'll have to switch your insurance over to the new 'vette, no problem I think.... Long story short, I didn't drive off in my shiney blue Stingray - still in my 20's my insurance man laughed when I told him I got a new 'vette, then he said NOPE, we don't insure those! Calls around town mostly got hung up on, finally found one agent that would write the coverage - ALMOST DOUBLE the car payment. Crap, says I...I could buy 2 spares to replace this one if anything ever happened, I just couldn't stomach that the insurance company wanted twice as much as the Chevy dealer did. Took me another 20 years.... :-(
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: Trukinbear on August 21, 2013, 08:31:57 PM
$199/mo covers my indoor dry stack and unlimited launches with the forklift. Courtesy slips for going back home across the street from the marina to make lunch.

Oh, forgot to say...that's not a bad price, I paid that 30 yrs ago in Florida.
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: BIG JOHNSON on August 23, 2013, 08:23:48 AM
Really not a bad way to go, I like the boat staying indoors and always being full of gas and ready. 93 octane ethanol free at the marina for 4.30/gal. Waterfront condo in the same Cove as the marina with a boat slip just sold for 120k, very tempted but I really miss having a garage.
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: Trukinbear on August 23, 2013, 12:58:51 PM
Wow, $120k won't buy you a rusted trailer on .1 acre up here! Plus 93 octane is over $4.50 gallon at the gas station for cars. And here I thought up here with all the poor folks was the cheap part of California!
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: Trukinbear on August 23, 2013, 01:05:32 PM
That condo sounds good even to me! However I imagine the job opportunities for wilderness trackers is rather slim down there. :-)
Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: muffbro on August 23, 2013, 07:12:46 PM
that 199.00 deal sounds pretty good.....

very convenient no doubt 


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Title: Re: launch Fees
Post by: SoCalPSD on August 23, 2013, 07:14:52 PM
I pay 250 for the year and I can get into any ca state lake. If I don't have the pass its 16 bucks for truck and boat


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