sixfootfenwick
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Now I'm thinking about all the money spent on cable TV that could have went to buy easements and facilitate access.
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I've been thinking about easements lately or, this sounds difficult, but starting a non-profit organization that can actually buy land and allow public access. The certain non-profit has been on my mind for years, but I haven't taken the initiative to put it into motion. There is a large stretch of a popular central PA limestoner that is actually on public land. This land sees a lot of litter, and so the landowner could post it, but I also fear that it could fall into some sort of private club water eventually, AKA something similar to Homewaters. I wouldn't be thrilled if that happened to this creek.
I should begin working on this sooner rather than later. We need to maintain access, not lose it.
I should begin working on this sooner rather than later. We need to maintain access, not lose it.
wildtrout2
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I had one of those when I was a kid. Popeye slides were my favorite. Great memories.
DomR
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Solution.....do away with the trout stamp concept.....raise the license fee by two thirds.....PFBC to use the money as it sees fit for things such as trout stocking. Then nobody can beatch any longer about having to buy a subsidizing trout stamp.
Come on this is just a thinly veiled way to rail against stocking, which isn't going away anytime soon, like it or don't like it, deal with it. Or not since modern society has lost the ability to process and deal with things they don't like, I presume it'll be NOT. 🙂
Better solution….only stock as many trout as the stamp can pay for.
DomR
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That's akin to asking the US Govt to only spend to the level that tax revenue will cover. Not going to happen in our lifetimes.
Like it or don't like it, learn to deal with it. Or make yourself crazy fretting over it. Life is short, don't grind your teeth over something out of your control.
Mikey2006
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Correct me if I'm wrong, because I'll admit I haven't read every single post in this thread, but I don't think anyone here has said that they will continue to fish for trout while refusing to buy the stamp. People obviously are dealing with it, the issue isn't big enough to warrant a huge uproar. But just because someone has a complaint or critique on how the PFBC funds their stocking it doesn't mean they are overreacting and saying that anyone opposed to the way the stocking program is funded needs to suck it up and deal with it doesn't remove any of the truth that the argument holds.
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Yes, a license is required. I believe it costs $50 a year for non residents.
Bamboozle
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Completely OT, but I have all the Popeye cartoons from 1933 through the 1940's on DVD. They are in regular rotation...
If only Sally Starr would introduce them... 😉
It's amusing how my simple inquiry about why a trout stamp is required if you fish for wild trout has elicited so many diverse comments.
New York probably has at least as many miles of trout stocked waters as PA yet there is no trout stamp required.
New York probably has at least as many miles of trout stocked waters as PA yet there is no trout stamp required.
DomR
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9 pages on a validity of trout stamp and it's not completely funding the stocking program = not dealing with the reality of it. Just sayin'
The game commission seems the handle this just fine. Why can’t the PFBC do the same.
Mikey2006
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I can't speak for anyone other than myself, but I've certainly accepted that nothing major will be changing anytime soon in the way the PFBC does things.
Nocktavius
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Why just accept this though? Even our neighboring state has done better. NYS DEC just recently shook up the way they handle stocked vs wild and it already has made some moderate to good fisheries excellent. And take a wild guess which state’s LEO’s I see disproportionately more often asking to see my papers and tearing my boat apart on the Delaware despite their side having nearly nothing to do with the quality of that fishery.
wildtrout2
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The reality of this is, the Trout Stamp isn't going awaywhere any time soon. The sooner folks accept that fact, the better off they'll be, at least psychologically. 😉
Mikey2006
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By “accepting it” I don’t mean that it shouldn’t be talked about, as other people suggested. I don’t understand why people seem to get a little upset whenever these topics come up, especially under a thread that was started to discuss this exact topic. I think we should all be able to agree that the PFBC shouldn’t stock more fish than they can afford, and that funds from liscenses and stamps could be used better. I’m just not very optimistic about those changes actually happening, but if they do that would be amazing.
Regarding the boating patrols, I could see Lake Wallenpaupack being quite a drain on time spent elsewhere in Pike and Wayne Counties at certain times of the year.
Brianh
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And the NY out of state license cost is about 50% lower.
