Much to my regret-another view on HB187

[RiverRat77]

If you're not going to sit there and say its BS, then why make up all the excuses in the world for why its on the landowner to keep people off their property? [#0000bf]Please refrain from name calling... Kent.[/#0000bf] The guy has no reason to do anything but back anglers, has been a member of this club he was fishing for years.... he has no reason to just make up stories about anglers violating the law. It sounds like some of you are just so pro angler (read that as it doesn't matter what anglers do, they must be right) that you couldn't see things from the side of a landowner even if you were there and witnessed the conversation. You guys that are so supportive of this fight for your supposed rights to access are so narrow minded that its no wonder the landowners are finally sticking up for themselves. I've said this on another forum and I'll say it again here.... I'm for the landowners on this. You give anglers an inch, they'll want a mile. Do I own land?? No, but I certainly don't believe its my right to go tromping through somebody's property just because all of a sudden I am supposed to be able to fish water in that area. Give me a damn break.... there is no sensationalism, just a bit of reality check going on here. Anglers are not the little angels some would have us all believe. Leaky, I'm glad the landowner said something to you about it... sounds like she is just asking for a little help and like you I agree, there is much more that goes into ranching than policing your little strip of river. At least she's got good people like you to depend on for help. These other dudes would be too busy telling her she's wrong to even worry about the folks actually breaking the law. Here's a compromise for you "anglers must be right, landowners are in the wrong" fellas. If you can float the river... great, have at it. If you can't, well tough. If the government wanted the public to have access to that waterway, they wouldn't have sold off land around it for somebody else to make private. It sounds more and more like a case of "have nots" being ticked off that the people who have the land won't share their piece of the pie.... my two cents.... too bad.[mad]
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