Hey I feel you brother but we can't just sit on the sidelines pissed off hoping our opportunities will come back.

Dial up an email to fgc@fgc.ca.gov and tell them what those ponds mean to you. Tell them about your disappointment that the ponds have been closed for more than a year for no reason, to save nothing.

Tell them how you're the kind of angler who respects the water, practices catch and release, and doesn't leave anything behind (trash). Because I bet you're that kind of guy. Most people on this site are and we deserve that chance to float our tubes down the grasslines in the island pond on a June afternoon chuckin a topwater or just watching the sun go down.

When the ponds do open up, I'll be there standing on the levee at sunrise to welcome you and everyone else back. If it's a cold day in hell when it opens up, I'll wear my jacket.