Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge Shutdown

Evidently there is a Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge shutdown in effect.

When I got home last night from work, I packed a couple of rods and headed to Peacocks Pocket road to get in an hour or so of fishing. 

When I got to the first entrance, the road was blocked so I drove down to East Gator Creek road and discovered that the "powers that be" had erected a barrier there also.

It's too bad that the current administration feels the necessity to inflict the most pain possible on the people of our country to farther their agenda.

Since I moved down here almost 20 years ago, they have closed most of the roads in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge supposedly because of the lack of funding to fix the potholes. 

They apparently do not have the funds available to mow the grass around Peacocks Pocket road; yet they seem to have found enough cash available to pay people to close off the only decent areas that are still available to the public for fishing from land.

Sometimes I feel like we're all in a Kingdom, not the United States of America.

Obama Care (A.K.A. The Affordable Care Act) is hurting us sportfishermen even when we're not sick.

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Till whenever, Tight Lines.