Fishing Forum

(02-11-2025, 10:23 PM)wormandbobber Wrote: [ -> ]It's actually HB 386...and, yeah, it looks like garbage. It needs to be fought!!

(02-11-2025, 10:40 PM)dubob Wrote: [ -> ]

(02-11-2025, 10:23 PM)wormandbobber Wrote: [ -> ]It's actually HB 386...and, yeah, it looks like garbage. It needs to be fought!!

Yep.  H.B. 386 Public Waters Access Act Amendments

And yes, it needs to be fought tooth and nail.  Your legislators will be for this bill simply because, for the most part, your legislators are landowners, and this bill definitely favors landOWNERS over land USERS (you and me).  You need to contact your legislators immediately, if not sooner, and DEMAND they vote against this bill.

(02-12-2025, 04:19 PM)dubob Wrote: [ -> ]You need to contact your Rep and your Senator and all of the following and ask them to vote 'NO' on this bill!

2025 House Natural Resources, Agriculture & Environment (HNRAE) Committee:

carlalbrecht@le.utah.gov, rshipp@le.utah.gov, glbennion@le.utah.gov,
bbolinder@le.utah.gov, wbrooks@le.utah.gov, scottchew@le.utah.gov, jkoford@le.utah.gov,
mkohler@le.utah.gov, lmonson@le.utah.gov, dougowens@le.utah.gov,
mikeschultz@le.utah.gov, dshallenberger@le.utah.gov, csnider@le.utah.gov,
christinewatkins@le.utah.gov

2025 Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture & Environment (SNRAE) Committee:

derrinowens@le.utah.gov, nblouin@le.utah.gov, keithgrover@le.utah.gov,
dhinkins@le.utah.gov, ssandall@le.utah.gov, jwstevenson@le.utah.gov,
kstratton@le.utah.gov

(02-13-2025, 05:27 AM)the_eagle Wrote: [ -> ]why are we not naming names on who put forward this bill....don't all bills have the sponsors on them ?

(02-11-2025, 09:38 PM)oldguy Wrote: [ -> ]Can someone please let's us know how this bill got in. They are trying to take our water ways away with out a word to the public ?

(02-18-2025, 02:41 PM)joatmon Wrote: [ -> ]Yikes! See link for an article on the sponsoring legislator’s family ranch.

https://www.westernagcredit.com/files/fe...r_2022.pdf

And DWR’s page on current stream access.

https://wildlife.utah.gov/streamaccess.h...permission.

(02-19-2025, 07:22 PM)Gone Forever Wrote: [ -> ]This is who we vote for and what we get for doing that.
The legislature does not and never will work in the interests of the sportsman. Their interests are developers, ranchers and resource extractors.
This will pass, mark my words and we will live with it just as the law passed against sportsman in 2010 was negotiated behind closed doors, completely ignored the law negotiated by Laurie Faulk on behalf of sportsman and gave away hundreds of miles of "navigable" miles of rivers to private landowners along with all of the publicly owned fish in them.
I do see a flaw in this law as it is currently presented but I am sure they will change the language to suit their large donators wishes.
It is possible that this law violates federal laws, but chances of any action on that is a dream, once again because of who we vote for and the fact that they care nothing for Utah sportsman.

(02-19-2025, 10:57 PM)k2muskie Wrote: [ -> ]Bingo!!! Ya get exactly whatcha voted for.  Too bad for all of us “others”…