The club members are being charged with trespassing, so they are going to court whether they want to or not. I keep hearing the terms "private" land surrounding these lakes but I believe it is a grazing rights lease they own, not the land itself (it is still crown land). They claim to be protecting both their commercial interests in the lake and their financial interests in the grasslands (they fear fishermen/sportsmen will trample the fragile grasslands if access is granted to the public). While I would grant them the later (we can all imagine the worse case scenario of back country campers abusing the surroundings), however, their claims to the lake are bogus. You cannot just take a public lake, dam it and stock it, and then block access claiming that allowing public access would damage your interests in it since no one is going to pay $350/night to fish it if they can fish it for free. They can keep the lake access open and use existing fencing to keep fishermen off the surrounding grasslands, have the government ban camping except at their lodge and charge a more reasonable fee to use their lodging. However, that would be admitting that money cannot buy you whatever you want, even if it is a publicly owned lake.