Kingwood Boat Launch

[casingpoint]

Anyone know if the boat launch at the end of Woodland HIlls Drive in Kingwood is open to the public and functional?

I was working for Brown and Root when the launch was built circa 1977. Didn't work directly on it, but I furnished the high fin blue catfish to the punch out crew one day for the fish fry, taken right off the trotlines a few miles downstream that very morning. Somebody else furnished the Pearl and Lone Star lager.

Not catfish, and I don't have a clue who this guy is, but here's a little sample of what Lake Houston is producing these days, in this case white perch, which is behind the query on the Kingwood launch on the West Fork of the San Jacinto River:

[casingpoint]

Bump.

OK, 53 hits on this thread and no replies is starting to look like a conspiracy to obscure the Kingwood boat launch from public view for the personal gain of a few people in the know...
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[Venus Pax]

I've been told that boat trailers/trucks w/o a K sticker get towed.
Then again, you can probably print one from your computer if you can get the right shade of green.

[casingpoint]

A Kingwood sticker??? Kingwood is incorporated into the City of Houston now. How can Kingwood legally exclude the public from the launch? Yeah, they'd like to be a gated community...with all the public services, but none of the trash. Guys in jon boats with trotlines, that's trash, yo! Can't have them rubbing elbows and bumping gunwales with the fiberglass bass boat crowd. Some of those rigs are over $30,000. Thanks, venus, for the comeback. Looks like this thread will die in place.

[PJK]

The boat launch and park were built by the Kingwood Parks Association. This is a group funded by assessments paid for by the homeowners in Kingwood. They receive no funds from the City of Houston for the construction of parks or the upkeep of the parks. This is why they are very strict in keeping the usage to those that pay for the boat launch.

[casingpoint]

If you drive up to launch without a Kingwood Sticker and a couple of $1600 kayaks on a $1200 trailer towed by a Subaru Outback or a Volvo SUV, probably no problem. But a dilapidated pickup truck towing a dilapidated old trailer with an old battered up aluminum boat reeking of dead gizzard shad and catfish slime and no K sticker, I suspect that is going to be a problem with the Kingwood Kops.

Thanks, PJK. Reckon I'll have to make other arrangements.