Re: [Paddlewise] Public beaches - was Saturation Point

At 10:10 AM 9/29/99 -0400, dmccarty_at_us.ibm.com wrote:
>|I agree with Philip that this is very civilized! I wish we had such a right
>here
>|in North America. (And before some private property right advocate makes a
>snide
>|comment, yes I am a land owner, and no I would not mind having this apply 
>on my
>|properties.)
>
>Hmmm, have you ever seen what bank fisher's do to an area?  Here in North
>Carolina, the state has very nicely created many areas that are Public Access
>Areas.  These are generally for people to fish from the bank on rivers and
>lakes.  I can think of two places that allow motorized boat traffic but
>generally around here they are used by the public to fish the lakes.
>
>This is a good thing.  I think it is a d...d good thing.  I've used some
of the
>access points to launch my paddle boats.
>
>The bad thing is that they access points quickly become a dump site.  I don't
>mean that people come in and dump dishwashers or tires, well I have seen
tires,
>but the bank fisher's leave piles and piles of trash and dead fish.  Its
>disgusting.  The state places trash barrels in the parking lot but these
B...ds
>are too lazy to use them.  Instead they just throw there soda bottles on the
>ground along with their junk food bags.  But that just mixes right in with the
>dead fish they killed and decided they did not want to clean and eat.
>
>These people have been given access, a right, and totally failed in THEIR
>responsiblity to the access areas.
>
>Now, I don't think all people who fish from the bank do this but certainly a
>large segment of that population do.  There is just to much trash in to many
>access areas to be caused by a small minority of people.

You seem to be confusing people that fish from the bank with people that
don't dispose of their trash.   It's good thing that I'm primarily a
flyfisherman
and usually fish while standing *in* the water or I might be offended.  My
experience, based as a flyfisherman for over 25 years, is that flyfisherman
are just as ecology minded, or more, than kayakers are.



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