Hi rich,
Being that you live in oakview, how are the local merchants approaching this issue?
Its going to affect them if there is a ban on outside boaters. How much will it affect them, who knows.
I'm sure a lot of boaters come from outside the city and probably spend most of their funds in their own city. But there has to be quite a few right there in your community as well.
Are there any boat dealers, boat repair shops getting involved ? How about the corner market? I know Eric from Erics Tackle is pissed, he told me to bring my kids and he would give them some rods at the meeting. But the meeting is on the same day as my boys bball awards function. I would like to see all come together including our local tackle shops, malibu tackle, anglers den, erics, the tackle shop over in simi valley, hook line and sinker in santa barbara. Even our local bait makers, Mattlures, Ken H., BDB, I don't know squat about politics but how about Shimano, Dawai, Owner and such. Do the above stand to lose money if our local lakes are closed to outside boaters, I don't know. Don't they have an obligation to back us anglers up? I mean man, we spend big bucks on their products. It would be nice to have some big names get up to Oakview and help solve this issue.

I'm a nonboater but I still care