Meet John Roberts -
TGO’s True Treasure For over 25 years John Roberts has been a volunteer here at TGO, and has always strived to make ours the best RV, Golf and Nature Resort in the USA. In 1998, upon his arrival at TGO, John started fishing for Largemouth Bass (his goal was to catch 100,000 Bass) and in so doing always carried a trash bag on his belt, picking up trash around the lakes, along the roads or wherever he saw it. John reached his 100,000 goal (a documented feat) several years ago. 63,000 plus of those have been caught right here in TGO. The remaining 37,000 Bass were caught in his RV travels from California to Nova Scotia. His largest Bass to date is 18 lbs. 4 oz. a stunning 29” long. John caught that fish here in TGO on December 10, 2016.
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It was in 2005 that John started to help improve our lakes by personally asking the EPA for advise on plants that benefited our lakes. They gladly came to TGO and provided him the information. John and his crews and have planted Pickerelweed, Arrowhead, Canna Lilies, Blue Flag Iris, Ferns and other plants over the years in and around our 32 ponds. All the time picking up trash around our ponds. For 20 years John has been in charge of stocking our ponds, relying on assistance from our Nature Center volunteers to help with the project. Prior to this, CSA paid a supervisor and employees to do the stocking. John has done a monthly pond topic talk about our ponds at the Nature Center for the past 10-12 years. In addition, twice a year he provides CSA a written report about pond conditions and recommendations John was named TGO volunteer of the year for 20112012. In February, 2021 he was the only volunteer to be named an honorary CSA service staff member with a service employee shirt (which he wears proudly).
