National Park warning - closed

[Richard Farino]

Hey guys,

Just a heads up – due to our nations congressional refusal to do the work of the people, it looks like your favorite National Parks fishing areas are closed.

Barriers are up along the Tidal Basin in SW near my apt, and as of 9:30am, there were cones closing the Duck Pond parking and the Gravelly Point parking areas.

Just a heads up if you plan on making a long distance trip to a park, please call the park office and find out if it's even open.

R

Richard Farino

Urban Angler VA | 108 N. Washington Street  2nd Floor | Alexandria, VA 22314 

(703) 527-2524 | fax: (703) 527-3313 | ric...@urbanangler.com    

[Dan Davala - Founder/President]

Thanks for getting that out to the group Richie, very important message!  I'll add that I was unable to access Fletcher's this morning due to a NPS barracade at the top of the ramp.  Let's hope there is a solution sooner than later, and support our great state parks in the meantime.

 

Dan Davala

[Jeffrey Silvan]

Thanks for the heads up as well. Does this impact accessing the C&O Canal too?

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[Howard A]

Does anyone know if this affects the regional and state parks?

[Jeff Cook]

Yes, even the bicycle paths on the canal have barriers up.

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On Oct 1, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Jeffrey Silvan <jeffre...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the heads up as well. Does this impact accessing the C&O Canal too?
>
> On Oct 1, 2013 12:06 PM, "Dan Davala - Founder/President" <daniel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for getting that out to the group Richie, very important message! I'll add that I was unable to access Fletcher's this morning due to a NPS barracade at the top of the ramp. Let's hope there is a solution sooner than later, and support our great state parks in the meantime.
>
> Dan Davala
>
> On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 11:49:22 AM UTC-4, Richard Farino wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Just a heads up – due to our nations congressional refusal to do the work of the people, it looks like your favorite National Parks fishing areas are closed.
>
> Barriers are up along the Tidal Basin in SW near my apt, and as of 9:30am, there were cones closing the Duck Pond parking and the Gravelly Point parking areas.
>
> Just a heads up if you plan on making a long distance trip to a park, please call the park office and find out if it's even open.
>
>
> R
>
>
> Richard Farino
> Urban Angler VA | 108 N. Washington Street 2nd Floor | Alexandria, VA 22314

> (703) 527-2524 | fax: (703) 527-3313 | ric...@urbanangler.com
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[Eric Y.]

Howard, presently this will affect DC parks, but it will not affect state parks or parks managed by local governments. 

[darbrewe]

All the parking on the Clara Barton is blocked off. Wanted to fish the Potomac this morn and found out the hard way. I was able to find parking on the VA side of Chain Bridge. The bucket brigade was out in force, obviously aware that no one will be enforcing out there anytime soon

On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 11:49:22 AM UTC-4, Richard Farino wrote:

[Dan Davala - Founder/President]

McFly and all,

 

I know this is a challenging time for our Nation, but please keep political rants and opinions off of this fly fishing community forum.  They are completely inappropriate here and can only cause divisions and anger within our membership.  There are plenty of other forums, comment sections on news sites, political sites, etc. to air these types of feelings, so let's stick to fly fishing related commentary here.  Continued infractions will result in the suspension of posting privileges.  Let's not let it come to that for anyone. 

 

Dan Davala

 

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On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 5:59:31 PM UTC-4, McFly wrote:

I have friends that live in England and France and they both said their leaders would never shut down the whole government to accommodate special interest groups like insurance and oil companies. I think more than a few of our elected leaders have gone into business for themselves. I don't care what comes up the Republicans always come back to Obamacare. They're willing to let the country run if they kill Obamacare, they will pass gun control laws if the kill Obamacare, these guys have been paid to vote a certain way when health care issues come up and now Obamacare is screwing all that up. These members of congress say they are looking out for future generations but cut much needed funding for things we actually need and give tax breaks to companies that do nothing to stimulate the economy. The sad thing is they're Americans that don't want Obamacare because one a black president got it passed and two Republicans who have cut medical benefits in the pass are telling them this will ruin the country. These are the same people that show up in the emergency room with no insurance, no money and expensive health problems, that thinks it's better not to have anything.

On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 11:49:22 AM UTC-4, Richard Farino wrote:

[Brendan]

hope this isn't too political - but does seem like the squirrel patrol is putting on quite the shutdown show. going out of their way to close things down in this area, whether it's a parking lot or pull off, with no trash cans or facilities...  and even claude moore farm which isn't even run or funded by NPS!.  having worked with them on several issues, jarvis is a great guy but NPS does have some theater majors at DOI hq and OMB only encourages it. 

that said, this mess isn't the park service's fault.  hopefully it's solved quick, supposed to be going to chincoteague this weekend which is pretty much the worst beach you can go to during a shutdown. 

side note: seems like there's still lots of  weed gunk in the water tho some of it seems to be loosening up. bass still holding in their summer spots? 

[darbrewe]

Fished upstream of Riverbend today. Water is super clear with some algae present. The bass liked a slow bottom bumped presentation, klawdads worked fine.

[Sam Hauser]

A lot of these closings really seem like a political power play to me. Many of the places they have closed are unstaffed 99% of the time anyway. I think it has cost them more money in many of these places to pay the employees necessary to put out all the cones and barricades than it would to just leave them open.

On Oct 1, 2013 12:06 PM, "Dan Davala - Founder/President" <daniel...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Eric Y.]

Sam,

Not discounting any political scoring going on, but NPR had John Jarvis on yesterday and asked the same question. He said in most cases it was more of an issue of things you don't see much of - trash collection, maintenance, cleaning, etc. So, while you might not see an employee wandering around the tow path too often in your daily use of it, if a pipe in one of the public restrooms bursts, NPS has someone whose job it is to take the call reporting the broken pipe, someone else whose job it is to go fix that pipe, etc, etc, you get the idea.