Re: [Paddlewise] Public beaches - was Saturation Point

|You seem to be confusing people that fish from the bank with people that
|don't dispose of their trash.
Not at all.  What I have observed over and over in several different states is
that people who fish from the banks leave more trash than other people.
Flyfishers dont' leave containers of worms or crickets.  Bank fishers do.  Do
people in boats leave trash.  Certainly.  But I think far fewer.  And much of
the boat trash is blown overboard when the boats are moving, it is not a
deliberate act like the bank fishers.  If the boat fishers where throwing trash
overboard I would see it.  There are more boat fishers than bank fishers and the
stuff would be all over the water.  It ain't.  But there sure is a lot at the
public access areas where there is bank fishing.

|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.

I agree.  Its my impression that trout fisher have been fighting for their
resource and access to same for a long time.  You just don't go out and go fish
for trout, you have to get a license to fish and then get another one to go for
trout.  And how much money is spent by a flyfisher on their equipment?  Blows my
mind when I have seen the prices on a rod and real!  A heck of a lot more than
my daddy paid for my fiberglass rod from Kmart back in the 70s!  And how about
the actual SKILL in using a fly road.

Compared with a cane pole.  How much effort went in getting the cane pole or
using same?  Do you need a license for a cane pole?  It used to be in Florida
you did not.  I don't know about NC.  Where is the effort in comparison?  Now
don't get me wrong and think I'm against bank fishers.  I'm not.  I dont like
the $%^&*( who trash OUR resource because they are to %^&*( lazy to pick up
after themselves.  One big difference between a flyfisher or the boatfisher and
cane pole user is that the guy dropping a worm in the water is more likely going
for something to put on the table for dinner......  The first two are fishing
for recreation.  Many bankfishers are hungry.

Later....
Dan McCarty



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