"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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"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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Actually in these cases we aren't talking about private clubs. We are
talking about Marinas that provide services open to the public, but are
privately owned. ie they sell gas, want you to come up to their store and
buy sodas, and really like people who come up to the restaurant for dinner
or lunch. As to perks they charge for using their ramps, and offer no perks
for free that I am aware of. They of course allow you to park if you are
eating at their restaurant and giving them your money. They are for profit
businesses which are trying to lay claim to public resources for their own
personal gain.

I do appreciate your opinion, and if we were talking about a private yacht
club marina that provided a service for others or offered something that
wasn't specifically designed to put money in their own pockets I might be
inclined to be more agreeable on the subject. Since they are a for profit
that is profitting off the publicly owned resource I feel that attempting to
claim more than is theirs to claim is in poor taste at best. Its actually
illegal in my opinion, and I'm not even sure why they are allowed to keep
the signs up as written. In other instances G&F and the state have forced
people to remove illegal signs on public land or public water.

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Bob La Londe

Cheapskate's Ways to Do Fishing Stuff
(The Frugal Fisherman)
Through the Month of October 2005

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