New River Access Bill to be filed

[catmaster23]

River, I know the law, and I too have river property, I make no money from it so greed has never been part of my argument. Ignorance is subject to interpretation, as is the law. Who is going to be left with the responsibility of keeping the people once allowed to access the riverbanks in check? Who is going to be burdened with the damage to property that will come?, and it will, you can say it won't all you want but it will and does happen daily. How is the government going to protect the landowners from criminal activity? All sportsman aren't born with some higher form of ethics, I pic up beer cans, trash, line, mend fences that have been crossed by some 300 pounder all the time. Most rivers aren't in the middle of nowhere, they run through farms and homesteads, peoples primary residences, I don't want a bunch of strangers walking through all day. I like to know what is going on on my property. Were not talking about big rivers like the columbia or the snake, ect. it's rivers like the weber and provo, the bear ect, that aren't normally navigable by boat or some other floating device that what I see to be the main target here. I understand the want of fishing new waters, but I don't understand the for lack of a better word entitlement attitude. I don't waltz onto my neighbors section unless I've asked, I just think that's how it should be, I think it's only fair. It isn't the 1800's, people don't need to trap, or catch fish for daily food or use the waterways to move goods like they did back then, it's a totally different world. I don't know who these 'criminals' you speak of are, all the landowners I know, are good hard working people that more often than not would gladly let someone travel the banks if only asked. And just so I'm clear, I'm not categorizing you in with the slobs that will come if the law is changed, but you can't deny that they will come I'm just not willing to put up with the problems they bring. And thanks for the invite, but I wouldn't fish it unless we had met face to face, shook hands and so you would know who was going to be there, that's just how I was raised. Now to go get ready for the Pig in the morning, good fishing to ya.
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