Strawberry marina closed

[BYUHunter]

Thought I had better give you guys a heads up. I went to the Strawberry bay marina this morning at 6:00 am. There were cones all around the parking lot. There were two others there to launch as well. There were no warning signs at that time. The 3 of us launched, however I had my daughter drive the truck and trailer around to Renegade where I picked her up in the boat. It cost us some fishing time. Later there was a sign at the pay shack that said it would be closed today, Monday and Tuesday. The sign suggested launching at Soldier Creek or Renegade. Too bad the sign was not up earlier both at the pay shack and at the turn off of highway 40. Kind of poor customer service on Utah Recreation Company's part. When a company is interested in customer service they do half of the parking lot 1 day and the second half another day. I think URC's idea of customer service is: We are the concessionaire and we allow you to use the premises (Federal Public Lands) at our discretion.

Kokanee fishing was slow today. I mostly fished the SC side - only 1 on and did not get it in the boat. Did catch quite a few Rainbows. The wind pushed us into the narrows where we found quite a few willing bows.

 Not at all impressed with URC.  I totally agree with you that they act as if they're doing us a great favor allowing us to access and use OUR public land. I am totally against this continued commercialization of our public lands. Why should tax payer infrastructure be then turned over to a private business to run at a guaranteed profit? They didn't risk anything to build the infrastructure. 
  Sorry, jumping off my soap box now before someone comes along and cancels me for bucking the all knowing gov't.

Appreciate the warning Brookie, but have to agree with the above as well.

Last year, as I was pulling into the marina one afternoon to launch, their host/enforcer/whatever pulled his truck in front of mine and physically blocked me to check that I hadn't somehow circumnavigated the pay station (not sure how I'd do that). He then proceeded to criticize that I should have the payment tag on the dash, not hanging from the rearview "so that it will be easier to see, that way you don't get a ticket" (despite the fact that it is a rearview tag). At any rate, between being blocked in, and criticized for following the rules, I was less than friendly coming out of the exchange. His parting comment was "I'm trying to help you". No you're not. You're skimming profits off of public lands that we all pay for.

Sparing you the rant of the double-dipping taxation of license fees, boat registration, truck registration, federal and state taxes, sales tax on all of it, and then being scammed $10 every launch, does URC actually have the ability to issue tickets?