Ramp Etiquette

[Trident 13]

I’m a kayak angler and try to fish mostly quiet areas or early mornings to get away from the crowds. This past Sunday i was Kokanee fishing at Montpelier Reservoir, which is electric only and gets few boaters most weekends. Anyway after getting a limit of kokes and coming back to the ramp there are 3 pickup trucks stacked up at the bottom of the ramp, a canopy, lawn chairs and people using the bottom of the ramp as a private beach.
This is the second time in the last 4 weeks this has happened and both times the vehicles had out of state plates. Different people, same state. Makes a guy wonder sometimes if this an isolated occurrence or is the lack of common sense widespread.
The kind folks at the ramp did help me carry my kayak around their three trucks so i could get my vehicle down to grab it.

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[meancuznalfy]

It's a lack of common sense, non boaters don't much care if they plug up the ramp, it gets real bad in Montana during trout spawn, fly fisherman block all the ramps up there so it's a fight to get a boat in and out. On the other hand watched a guy put a huge cabin cruiser in a couple weeks ago only to forget he didn't put the plug in or disconnect the boat from the trailer, a hour later I left and he was still sitting at the boat ramp, boat still on the trailer.