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Originally Posted by rickhern
,,,My concern is the parking issue,,,,
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...Parking which is a big part to Access.
Illegal parking ...along with trash, campfires, a bloody/scaly causeway, etc... all add up to one thing . . ... LOSS OF ACCESS. How close it the closest trash barrel? Obviously, it's NEVER close enough for everyone.
No, they won't close it permanently. It will stay open during the summer months during sun-bathing hours, it will only close from sunset to sunrise...they will replace the existing fence with a much higher one and one that extends past the rock-edge not allowing passage at all...but then who needs to go there during the night-time anyway ? The fish are only there from 8am to 5pm...
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Like someone else stated, there aren't really any secret spots. Someones' fished there before at some point. Whether they've become forgotten or are now on someone's property, they've been fished. Anyone with a brain and map can do ALL this legwork themselves. With computer technology it can almost all be done from home. Aerial images with depths and structure points. You can't track a sandbar as closely but you can get the gist of where to try. It's not rocket science.....finding the better tides/times to fish them is the
science, per say.
This thread is too long to search for it, but someone else stated the question, not exactly like this...but this is how I interpreted it..
..."did you find all your spots yourself, or did someone show you a couple?"....
Of course people have shown me spots...and I've come to learn that you can't share all those spots with everyone or sometimes ANYONE. There is an etiquette about fishing when you take it seriously. Like my other post stated, we don't all look at fishing the same way. Some of you will be collecting baseball cards again in a year or so...or perhaps even antique Barbie Dolls perhaps, to each their own....but
some of us will still be wading the large boulders that cover our shore lines in search of that last fish. Unfortunately, a couple of seasons (trash-wise,parking, etc..) could seriously impact just one more fishing spot...and I've seen WAY too many spots lost.
QUESTION: By losing just
1 legal parking area, do you realize how many actual fishing
spots you lose?
ANSWER: ...take a walk on the beach and start counting each step through the sand.....hop from rock to rock and count each rock.
There are places in Newport that to this day, I will drive by and think to myself.......WOW, I remember when we used to be able to fish this area....
.....hopefully my child will own a boat and won't have to worry about access.....