Wednesday, April 1, 2009
NEW BLOG SPOT FOR ROLLOVER PASS!!!
This is our new blog spot with news concerning Rollover Pass. We will do our best to keep you updated with bills, legislation, comments, editorials and such for you to post comments on. Please feel free to add your own comments as we enjoy hearing from our community. If you want to leave comments or have questions, please click on the "Comments" button and post your message. Thank you and God bless!
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me and my husband darrell king lived at gilchrist for 5 years.we liked fishing at rollover we caught a lot of fish there.they need to leave rollover alone sandy king.
ReplyDeleteI have lived most of my live on Gilchrist Beaches! I love Rollover! It must be saved!
ReplyDeleteWhy can't they build Jetty's like other beaches have....like Corpus Christi! they have many along the beach there all nice jettys for the fisherman!
we had a home on Margaret rd in gilchrist for over 30 years. We will be back. Joe Cole. Am also looking for a way to contact Mrs. Ohlers. Thanks
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ReplyDeleteWhat it seems like is really going on:
If you have ever been to rollover pass there are several particular things you probably noticed: Great Fishing, Great Fishing Community, Its completely free, there is usually lots of trailers around especially during the "seasons", you can usually have a ground fire, camp and set up your generator/lights, drink beer-otherwise party, usually see a poorly maintained Port o' Pot, and the place is generally speaking not really infested with game wardens. Everyone seems friendly out at rollover, I have hung out with people from a variety of races and cultures all drawn together by some underlining purpose, fishing! The fact that everything is absolutely free at rollover(other than tackle and bait) is sole reason why it is being shut down.
The larger concern of the commission seems to be focused on the costly burden of supporting rollover pass' yearly maintenance spending, and he is trying to veil its citizens into believing that he is some sort of environmentalist or appeal to environmentalists. This is not the case if he were an environmentalist maybe he would look into pollution in Galveston bay and the contributing factors as to why most black drums are worm infested and should not be eaten. If beach erosion is the main concern perhaps we should build a jetty several hundred feet extending into the ocean, like the Galveston ship channel jetties only smaller, so that it will put a damper on the erosion.
Frankly, I honestly believe that rollover pass has been hit hard economically speaking since hurricane Ike, and the economy needs some sort of pick me up. A jetty would help mitigate beach erosion and bolster the fishing community of rollover pass, this of course is just a fleeting hope.
Now back to the important stuff. Now days it is hard to find great fishing spots that are both easily accessable and free. Rollover is on of the few spots I have grown to love in the past few years for these exact reasons. In a time when the economy is not doing so well and people as well as commissioners are trying to cut back on spending a bit, seems like now more than ever people would want to flock to rollover pass in that it is a cost saving mechanism when planning a fishing trip. I live in NW Houston and drive 2 hours to get to rollover at least several times a year, the fishing is usually awesome, and I don't really need any more expenses when I get there. Not like they charge for admissions, could they, should they? Most other places in Texas would charge you to camp, fish etc. If they did charge money this would not likely help the fishing community(people are attracted to it because it is pretty much free) and it would be hard to enforce. Otherwise rollover pass remains a fisherman's paradise for the money conscious fisherman as my self or just poor people in general. (Really sorry to say that but it has to be said).
Free stuff draws poor people, and poor people draw crime, and since the cleansing of Ike's pass over rollover pass, I think the commissioner and other wealthy individuals are pushing to close rollover pass to rid the island of the sometimes less financially fortunate fisherman, bums, and poor people in general. Rollover pass draws crowds of people who are united with one common interest, and in my opinion, these are some of the most down to earth, good hearted people you can run across.
Why is rollover being taken away from us? Age old argument of the haves and the have nots! We were once the haves and soon we will be have nots.
I call it like I see it!
My intentions were not to offend anyone with this post just shed light on the facts at hand people. I was thinking about going to rollover today but I decided to check online to see the status of rollover, knowing that it is still there makes me want to go see it a few more times before the inevitable happens
without rollover, a portion of galveston bay will suffer from alga blooms due to excessive fresh water. this results in massive fish kills. the dying algi are consumed by bacteria, which use all the available oxygen, leaving none for other creatures.the water sours.
ReplyDeleterollover does NOT cause erosion. beach erosion is more complex than some would believe. wave action suspends the sand; currents carry it away. without jetties to keep lateral currents off the beach, the sand simply flows into and through the first opening it comes to... rollover pass. this is why the replacement sand for beach restoration comes from dredging of the intercostal, and this is why the beach needs replacement on the west side of rollover (current next to the beach goes to the east). this is also why canal city canals have to be dredged so often.
what bolivar REALLY needs, is a deep channel opening into the gulf to allow nature to clean it's own waters. rollover needs to be dredged to a navatable depth, have jetties on both sides out into the gulf to prevent beach erosion and subsequent filling and needed dredging of the intercostal. with this, and a higher bridge, bolivar would grow, galveston bay would be healthier. populations of fish and fowl would prosper. and.. the people of bolivar would benefit in the end.
frankly, i can't see why this isn't done from a rational point of view. the only reason it isn't done is political, and based on fear and greed.
me and my wife tina lived in gilchirst for better than 10 yrs in the 70s and 80s we both worked for tim and mavis hardy at tims snack bar on the cut would be elated to hear from someone from that era or even a relative of someone casey.carl@rocketmail.com
ReplyDeleteMy family and I own property in the area. We bought this property solely because of the rollover pass. We have been fishing at the pass since the late 80's. I take my two young boys to the pass almost every weekend from spring to fall and a couple of times a month during the winter month's when we collect oysters and look for large conch shells on the beach. During the spring to fall time frame, we crab at rollover and fish. We make a big event out of spending the night at our property, cooking fish, crabs and oysters and swimming on the beach at rollover. I have fished all up and down the coast and there is no spot like rollover pass. The fishing is better there for speckled trout than anywhere else I have fished. Because of the tide movement through the pass, I can look at a tide chart and know when to catch speckled trout. I know where they will be and when. That is unique. I know and have met so many people that are local and those that regularly travel to rollover from hundreds of miles, on a regular basis. If you notice, businesses are starting to reassert themselves, houses are being rebuilt and rollover pass is very important to so many people. Personally, I don't want to see jetties built. There is a huge following of fisherman who like to wade and fish the gulf side mouth of the pass. Jetties would stop this. It has been there 50 years. That alone is reason enough to keep it there. During this time, generations of people have come to love rollover pass and rely on its unique recrational value. I have often thought that if money needed to be raised, why not require a sticker to be purchased. Galveston is now doing this for the beaches, why not have an additional sticker for purchase to park at rollover. A pier is an awful idea. There have been piers in operation near the pass and I'm sure I'm not the only one who has noticed very few people at the piers and huge crowds at rollover. It's because the pass makes the fishing unique and excellent compared to the fishing off a pier. We keep our property there because of the pass, should it close, I would have no interest in continuing to come to bolivar. I would sell out property and not come back to bolivar. I reside close to Lake Jackson, not far from surfside. If the pass closes, I would go to surfside for the beach, the beaches are much nicer there. But as it is now, I never go to surfside. I always come to bolivar and I come almost every weekend that there is good weather, even in the winter. The reason I do this is because of rollover pass. The drive is worth it. Close the pass, and bolivar will simply become a memory to me. I won't be back. I taught my kids to fish there and they love coming fishing with me on green water days near the mouth of the pass on the gulf side. I really envisioned taking my grand kids to the pass with me some day and teaching them to fish. I pray that the pass remains as is, no closure, no jetties. My god, it's been this way for 50 years! Leave the pass alone! Jerry
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