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Jellyfish Member White Shrimper Boot Club
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shallowsport Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 3260 Location: Flour Bluff/Kingsville
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| Will just pray for the best. |
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J.McDonald Knives Flour Bluffian in training

Joined: 19 Aug 2010 Posts: 461 Location: Corpus Christi, TX
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| shallowsport wrote: | | Will just pray for the best. |
X2 _________________ Jacob McDonald
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cdhknives Flour Bluffian in training
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Anyone taking bets on how well this goes?  _________________ Why is it that these days sales people seem to be as honest as I am knowledgeable? |
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J.McDonald Knives Flour Bluffian in training

Joined: 19 Aug 2010 Posts: 461 Location: Corpus Christi, TX
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| cdhknives wrote: | Anyone taking bets on how well this goes?  |
I've got $5 (on a budget and need as much money as I can for fishing lol) that says it aint going to go well for them after a while and their business will only be from tourists and possibly a few locals but the rest are going to find another spot or start fishing the beach. _________________ Jacob McDonald
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Crash Flour Bluffian in training

Joined: 03 Feb 2012 Posts: 299 Location: Flour Bluff
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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If you want more people to use the thing all you have to to do is.............make it longer.....like it was when I was a kid.....on a Saturday night you had to get there early to get a spot _________________
Me and DR fishing Pita Island November 2010 |
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ladyfish Member White Shrimper Boot Club
Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 662 Location: Island
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| don't know that to said, it's just sad, buy the time county pays employees ins, over time , they will lose money, idiots |
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Skillzzz9 Member White Shrimper Boot Club

Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 866 Location: Mustang Island
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I think it's laughable that they report that the concessions make over $100,000 every year. If they are racking in so much dough, why is it that they can't keep anyone in there to run the concessions? Hmmmm. _________________
| ltorna1 wrote: | | Truly boat porn. I need to marry into money. |
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Central Scrutinizer Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 14 Jul 2009 Posts: 3585 Location: Flour Bluff
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| Crash wrote: | | If you want more people to use the thing all you have to to do is.............make it longer.....like it was when I was a kid.....on a Saturday night you had to get there early to get a spot |
It has been longer on a number of occasions. But Mother Nature has taken care of that [repeatedly]. Good to know that the County can trump Mother Nature and make this a $$$ making venture. I can't wait for my next Property Tax bill to come in the mail. Taxes might go down enough that I might get a refund, based on the rosy picture presented in the story!!!!  |
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hickroots07 Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 01 Nov 2011 Posts: 1714 Location: cc, TEXAS!
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If pier prices go up dramatically i will never fish the pier again. I would use the money i would have spent to get on for gas and just hit pins. Raising the prices is stupid logic in my mind but this is the government we are dealing with.... they never get it wrong _________________ Great captains, the stuff of legend, are made not by what they have caught, but by what they have given back. |
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workinbird Member White Shrimper Boot Club
Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 524 Location: San Antonio
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| I've never fished the pier because I love the beach too much! Seems to me that the people using the pier now won't like the change. Guess we will just have to wait and see! <*/)))>< |
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cdhknives Flour Bluffian in training
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Personally it doesn't change my fishing...I go fishing to get away from people, not rub elbows with them.
All in all, though, I think there are very VERY few things the .gov (on any level) can do better than private industry, and run a business like a fishing pier is definitely in that category.
While likely small, I too wonder what impact this will have on county coffers and thereby my property tax bill. _________________ Why is it that these days sales people seem to be as honest as I am knowledgeable? |
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