Pineview Access and Crappie Question?

[dubob]

Don't expect it to last long. I used to fish crappie in October. I have sent multiple emails to the DNR over the federal lake and they won't make the contracted company even leave in the courtesy dock.  I am done trying.  Just accepted that I will ice fish crappie instead.

It won't hurt to try and sweet talk someone at the contract company, rather than the DNR, after all, aren't they the ones that move the docks? By the way, isn't it controlled by the forest service, not the DNR?

BINGO!  Pineview & Strawberry are both Federal venues and Utah has no say or control over how they are managed.  And when the Feds turned over daily management to concessionaires, they did a great disservice to the general public.  Concessionaires do it to make a profit and could care less about non-profitable courtesies to their customers.  I haven't used Pineview during the concession run soft water season since the Feds started leasing the facility out to the concessionaires.  There was a Federal law passed in 2019 that became effective in 2020 to start using Federal lease permit fees (up to $1.9B) to upgrade Federal recreational properties.  Pineview was allocated some of that money, but there is no mention of upgrading the Port Ramp launch in the project's plans.  Pit toilet upgrades and improved access at some of the day use areas, but no ramp upgrades listed.  So for me, it's still ice only use for the foreseeable future.