In message , Tracy
writes
Your being intolerant in an elitest sort of way.

These people are causing you no harm. They are fishing. I see far
more people fishing than I see kayaking. I usually find them to be
very friendly and happy people. I have had interesting conversations
pertaining to the location of alligators, snakes, fish, birds and other
wildlife. We are in the outdoors together, lets not be kayak snobs.

You think your sport is better than their's?

Ask yourself this, what happens when fisherman no longer tolerate
kayaking? Remember there are more fisherman than kayakers.
Welcome to the UK
What happens when homeowners decided they no longer can tolerate silent
spying kayakers peering into their backyards?
Welcome to the UK

What happens when environmentalists become concerned that you may
disturb nesting birds? I actually heard an "environmentalist" state
that kayaks disturb birds because she saw a bird fly as a kayak
approached. She seemed to imply that disturbance equalled harm. I told
her how I spotted a bird at 100x through my C-5 get disturbed by a
gentle breeze and if she was in favor of banning wind. I never got an
answer.

What happens when the state becomes concerned that too many kayakers
are drowing on certain sections of rivers, so no selfish kayakers can
kayak anywhere on the river?
Has been tried over here in Europe.
What happens when hunters decide to buy land and deny access to it
because they are denied access to public land?
Don't have hunters in England really just a bunch of eejits running
around dressed in pink on horses chasing foxes for fun.
What happens when environmentalist decide to buy land and deny access
to it because they cannot have their way with public land?

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Yup that is the problem in the UK

Your rights stop where my freedom begins. And Vice Versa.
I know its hard sometimes. I hate Jet Ski's and Cigarette boats. They
have their places, we have ours. Leave them alone. Besides, one day I
may try one out for a couple of hours.

We have the situation here where a fishing club denied permission for
the three annual organised tours to pass through their fishing rights.
These tours have been going on for over thirty years under one name or
another. The fishing club has about 50 members. The tours bring on
average 500 paddlers to the valley. Llangollen the town where most of
the paddlers base themselves estimated the loss to the local economy to
be around 20,000 pounds (not far off 38,000usd oh we do like your well
run economy over here in the UK). I feel this is on the low side but
they calculated the sum and did not include purchases that were not of a
"direct benefit" e.g.. petrol purchases. The paddlers are boycotting
Corwen the offending town.



Professional Target wrote:

rant
Fishing. Everywhere, more anglers and more fishing line. Not only
do I need to worry about not hitting their lines or "getting too
close" to them,
but I also find my paddle and occasionally my rudder fouled by old discarded
fishing line. Everywhere.

Oh, and when they're about to cast, they look impatient while I pass by. As
if that 10 seconds extra time for me to pass is going to cost them the "big
catch of the day". A few of the more ignorant ones don't even care - they
just cast off anyway.

This is the case with ALL of the rivers and smaller lakes nearby. I'm
beginning to wonder which is worse: jetski's or anglers...

/rant



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Dave Manby
Details of the Coruh river and my book "Many Rivers To Run" at
http://www.dmanby.demon.co.uk