HopBack just sent this to me, and maybe I am out of line on this one, but I am fuming. As far as I am concerned, this is going to lead to nothing good with regards to access and flyfishing in PA. The premise is this: List your stream section so it is available to flyfshermen to rent for a day's fishing. A day on Elk, for example, costs $150. Everyone wants a dollar these days, and soon the days of a simple knock on the door and a polite request for access will be gone. This simple strategy has gained me access to numerous stream sections in my life, but when landowners realize they can earn money for access, who is going to allow a schmuck on their land to fish for free.
Honestly, I despise the world that we are starting to see. I love PA, but I am starting to get very disgruntled by the privatization of our natural resources. Old timers often lament how you used to be able to hunt wherever you wanted, and people were very friendly. Gone are those days, and I fear that future generations won't have near the fishing opportunities we currently have because our best waters, many of which are on private land, will be pay to fish only, and that may only further help to drive up pressure on certain sections of our famous PA streams. Yep, it's great to live in Central PA's trout paradise, except that is exactly where this business model has taken hold, and it is where all of the current listings are. Hooksetr, I don't approve. Please go away. There is no telling how many miles of streams this business model could gobble up in the next 20 or 30 years. This is another reason why I wish we had those access laws like Wisconsin. Man, what a freaking bummer.
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Honestly, I despise the world that we are starting to see. I love PA, but I am starting to get very disgruntled by the privatization of our natural resources. Old timers often lament how you used to be able to hunt wherever you wanted, and people were very friendly. Gone are those days, and I fear that future generations won't have near the fishing opportunities we currently have because our best waters, many of which are on private land, will be pay to fish only, and that may only further help to drive up pressure on certain sections of our famous PA streams. Yep, it's great to live in Central PA's trout paradise, except that is exactly where this business model has taken hold, and it is where all of the current listings are. Hooksetr, I don't approve. Please go away. There is no telling how many miles of streams this business model could gobble up in the next 20 or 30 years. This is another reason why I wish we had those access laws like Wisconsin. Man, what a freaking bummer.
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