"Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers" wrote in
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If I were you Bob, I would print this out and keep it with you, then
fish the snot out of those docks. When someone complains, give them a
copy and tell them to take it up with Brad.
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There are a few different degrees of "right", and a number of approaches
you can take when you are.

For example, if the private marinas let fishermen park at their
facilities, or provide a ramp, or have a clubhouse willing to sell you a
nonmember a beer when you get off the water, or anything like that that
is an act of kindness for the community that doesn't cost anybody
anything, you need to think about whether antagonizing the facility means
that they'll tell all the fishermen to go to hell, and yank any of those
perks.

The coupla fish you might take off of their docks might not be worth
coming off of the water and finding a boot on your wheel, or a
screwdriver through your sidewall, or finding a locked gate the next
time you try to park there.

It's a little like landowners who don't post during hunting season. The
minute one or two hunters annoy them, they'll post, and those few hunters
may have ruined an opportunity for many hunters. Of coarse, this is a
little different, because the marinas don't own the water.

If they don't provide any of these little perks, and they aren't friendly
with the community, have yourself a field day fishing their dock.

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Scott
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