Fishing during rifle seasons

[SwissFamilyRobinson]

Sounds good, where’s your camp?

Cambria County north of rt. 22, WMA 2E

 

[caddisflyer]

I can’t hump a deer up over a mini-mountain anymore like I used to be able to. However, I’ll still be up at camp sitting on my back porch with camo leaf draping drunk as a skunk on blackberry brandy pointing my barrel into the woods. Easy to keep your powder dry under a roof 😉

Hunting while drunk. Assuming you are serious. Folks we have a real winner here!

 

[Cznymph]

Hunting while drunk. Assuming you are serious. Folks we have a real winner here!

Excessive alcohol consumption while at camp is really common and often encouraged as a part of the “tradition”.

Take a look at the Potter Leader in the weeks after deer season, the number of out of towners arrested for DUIs is pretty high. For my families safety, I really try to make sure that we don’t have to travel after dark when the camps are in town.

 

[SwissFamilyRobinson]

Hunting while drunk. Assuming you are serious. Folks we have a real winner here!

In all seriousness the black berry brandy comes when the firearm is retired for the day. I swap out a space heater for the brandy around supper.

 

[lycoflyfisher]

Hikers in most cases do not worry about hunting season. I have seen lots of backpackers wearing all black during rifle season on a popular trail system I hunt near a few days each year. Most are completely unaware of gun season or potential danger of not wearing orange.

If I wanted to fish, I cant think of too many places that I fish, that I wouldn't because of a gun season. Wear an orange hat and fish whereever you want!

 

[BradFromPotter]

Excessive alcohol consumption while at camp is really common and often encouraged as a part of the “tradition”.

Take a look at the Potter Leader in the weeks after deer season, the number of out of towners arrested for DUIs is pretty high. For my families safety, I really try to make sure that we don’t have to travel after dark when the camps are in town.

Really? How high would you say it is during deer season?

 

[Cznymph]

Really? How high would you say it is during deer season?

Double the average number of DUIs per weekly edition.

 

[lycoflyfisher]

Double the average number of DUIs per weekly edition.

If cops would start checking the atv caravans I am sure the duis would increase as well.

 

[Cznymph]

If cops would start checking the atv caravans I am sure the duis would increase as well.

No doubt. Those and the snowmobiles that just go from bar to bar all day long.

 

[Nocktavius]

Wait people actually change their outdoor activities due to hunting season? It’s my taxpayer funded public land, if some hammerdick is upset about me fishing too close to his tree stand, he should’ve set it up further from the crick.

 

[Cznymph]

Wait people actually change their outdoor activities due to hunting season? It’s my taxpayer funded public land, if some hammerdick is upset about me fishing too close to his tree stand, he should’ve set it up further from the crick.

Your taxes don’t pay for state game lands.

 

[Nocktavius]

Your taxes don’t pay for state game lands.

Refer to second part of the sentence. Unless deer have somehow become aquatic without my knowledge, nobody should be hunting close enough to my back cast to have any issues.

 

[Cznymph]

Refer to second part of the sentence. Unless deer have somehow become aquatic without my knowledge, nobody should be hunting close enough to my back cast to have any issues.

So you’d be cool with someone playing fetch with their dog in the water while you tried to fish a PFBC lake?

Same scenario, a secondary user interfering with a primary user.

 

[Nocktavius]

So you’d be cool with someone playing fetch with their dog in the water while you tried to fish a PFBC lake?

Same scenario, a secondary user interfering with a primary user.

Sure, people do it all the time. I also tend to go places where I don’t see people who interfere with my activities when I’m looking for solitude

People are too lazy- they don’t want to put in the work to go places where they’ll be alone so they just project expectations for people to stay away from them when that’s unrealistic. That’s why most hunters are walking around with 350 lb beer guts and shooting deer on food plots.

 

[Cznymph]

Sure, people do it all the time. I also tend to go places where I don’t see people who interfere with my activities when I’m looking for solitude. Also lake fishing is for schweens

So then you shouldn’t have any issue sharing state game lands with hunters, who pay for the purchase of those lands. The primary purpose of state game lands is hunting and trapping, not fishing.

 

[Nocktavius]

So then you shouldn’t have any issue sharing state game lands with hunters, who pay for the purchase of those lands. The primary purpose of state game lands is hunting and trapping, not fishing.

no issue sharing state land with hunters- the title and content of this thread seem to insinuate that I have no business fishing where people are trying to hunt and I’m not playing that game.

 

[tomgamber]

State Game Lands are primarily funded by hunting and furtaker license sales, meaning the money generated from people purchasing hunting licenses is the main source of revenue used to acquire and manage these lands; this also includes revenue from timber, mineral, and oil/gas extraction on State Game Lands, as well as a federal excise tax on sporting arms and ammunition (Pittman-Robertson Act).

 

[Cznymph]

no issue sharing state land with hunters- the title and content of this thread seem to insinuate that I have no business fishing where people are trying to hunt and I’m not playing that game.

It seems that you do have issues, especially with a hunter who would choose to place their treestand near water. You seem to feel that space should be reserved for only your activity of choice.

On state game lands, you’re a guest and not the primary user.

 

[Swattie87]

no issue sharing state land with hunters- the title and content of this thread seem to insinuate that I have no business fishing where people are trying to hunt and I’m not playing that game.

Nobody said that. It’s a choice. You’re choosing to fish where/when people are hunting. That’s fine.

Many other people in this thread choose, for varying reasons that they’ve explained, not to. Also fine.

 

[Cznymph]

In

This isn’t a pissing contest I’m looking to get involved with currently. Enjoy your corn fed deer and pellet fed trout, sir

I don't grow corn on the farm and I don’t fish for stocked trout, so there’s that. I’m more of a walleye guy these days anyway.

My parting advice for you is this, if you’d like to control how the land you recreate on is used, your welcome to buy your own and make it off limits to others.