I did not see the ranger that is usually there on the 11th, but I have previously made some negative comments about the female ranger that is there almost every day.

The ranger that is usually there is OK once you get to know her. I witnessed her one day making everybody get off the bouy line at the inlet. She was making everybody get 30 or 40 yards from the bouy line. I asked her what she was doing the next day at the gate, and she let me know that that was the 3rd time that morning she had rousted the same boats off the line, and she was being nice by not citing and kicking them out.

She is a little over aggressive in her interpretation of "mooring to a bouy line" and equates touching to mooring. Don't try to get away with dropping the trolling motor over the line, but I did see a guy on a bass rig that was staying right next to the line without touching it by working his trolling motor. He stuck to his guns, and she let him stay.

Another time she came up to the launch and asked some guy if he had a spare for his trailer. I thought she was going to cite him and I started trying to get out of there before she checked out mine. When he stated that he didn't, she stated that he should, and then pulled a new tire and rim that she found on the side of the road and gave it to him!!

Give her a chance. She is just trying to do her job, and she really puts up with lot of crap that she could cite for if she wanted to.
NoTrollMotor