Being a landowner on a river in SW Washington it would seem funny to look out the window and see a fisherman walking by to fish, maybe it would take some getting used to, I could see kids going fishing off the bank, all landowners should support this and maybe promote it they are the future of the sport.
I know that it costs more for a person to live by a river higher land prices and higher taxes and higher insurance.
It is hard for me to understand people who decide when they want to fish they can hop in a car and drive to a river and fish somones private land without ever considering the financial impications of the land owner.
I can understand the need to find a place to fish on a favorite river.
I lived in Dayton Wa for a year and a microsoft millionare and a tellecomuncations millionare bought up half of the fishing land on the Tuccannon a spectacular river but access is now hard to come by becouse of the attitude of the new owners Its Mine!.
One of the land owners even installed several video cameras so he could watch his land kind of paranoid. A totally diferent attite from the farmers who sold the land.
It is also becming a club thing where a person will lease the land form a club and charge money to hunt and fish in Columbia County.
Here is another scenario this happened this hunting season I go back evey fall to hunt in Dayton on a farmers wheat land that allows us to use it. One of his farmhands father went around and posted all of the farmers land during hunting season becouse he likes to hunt for himself. His idea of hunting is driving through the stubble with a beer between his legs looking for a bedded buck. while we park at the gate and hike the several hundred acres on foot. While the farmer spends his winter at his cabin in the Blue Mts.
Thank You
I wish fishing was better then we would have somthing more positive to write about.
our river is the lowest it has ever been in modern times. after talking to the oldtimers it has been really hard on them.