02-24-2010, 02:29 AM
I personally think that since the state has given us community fishing ponds with no fishing after hours, sporadic and unreliable stocking, fish and game officers spotting law breakers from the fence lines of city housing developments instead of busting poachers on streams and lakes with wild, native, or threatened species, filthy bathrooms (sometimes closed seasonally in certain locations for all you winter coffee guzzlers,) the opportunity to cross lines with 200 other anglers, $9.00 a pop for state park access with the option of a $70.00 yearly pass, and no public fishing docks with fish attracting features such as planted brush piles in the state parks we should all just be content and shut the hell up. There's the mother of all run on sentences right there.[sly]
I think a monopoly on publicly stocked and regulated waters should be available to anyone who can afford to pay off a politician. Okay... maybe that was overstated. Then again, it probably happens more than we know. It could be that the governing representatives are private land owners themselves?..... Do ya think!?[mad] As the old adage goes; the real golden rule is that he who has the gold makes the rules.
Not to say that everyone with money enough to buy land on public water front hoards it all greedily or that all politicians are corrupt. However, there seems to be a pattern here that doesn't favor the rights of the tax payers. For the amount of private land popping up on frequented fishing holes of people who have always obeyed the rules, the price of a fishing license should be going down. Quite the opposite; it goes up on occasion.
We've all heard the arguments of the land owners about gates being left open and livestock getting out, polluters leaving their beer cans strewn all over the bank, and thieves and perverts stalking the premises. I think it is reasonable to assume that most people have respect and good will toward each other and that any laws on the books to regulate such activities should enforce strict penalties for miscreants. Of course, that's another bill to squabble over.... GRRRR! I think I'll have a beer..
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I think a monopoly on publicly stocked and regulated waters should be available to anyone who can afford to pay off a politician. Okay... maybe that was overstated. Then again, it probably happens more than we know. It could be that the governing representatives are private land owners themselves?..... Do ya think!?[mad] As the old adage goes; the real golden rule is that he who has the gold makes the rules.
Not to say that everyone with money enough to buy land on public water front hoards it all greedily or that all politicians are corrupt. However, there seems to be a pattern here that doesn't favor the rights of the tax payers. For the amount of private land popping up on frequented fishing holes of people who have always obeyed the rules, the price of a fishing license should be going down. Quite the opposite; it goes up on occasion.
We've all heard the arguments of the land owners about gates being left open and livestock getting out, polluters leaving their beer cans strewn all over the bank, and thieves and perverts stalking the premises. I think it is reasonable to assume that most people have respect and good will toward each other and that any laws on the books to regulate such activities should enforce strict penalties for miscreants. Of course, that's another bill to squabble over.... GRRRR! I think I'll have a beer..
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