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06-12-2008, 09:19 PM
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Only Americans would have the genius to charge money for the right to live on the planet on which they were born. Get ready for an air meter on your nostrils.
Growing up, i thought that living off the land was the most natural way to live. My family in Truro clammed , fished and picked whatever berries in season. It was ( compared to today) a great life, a life whose pace was set by the seasons. Today everything seems out of time out of joint and rushed. Just not right, just not natural.
If you needed a fish for dinner, you just went down and caught one, not a big deal, they were there. They were ours.
The idea of paying the government for the right to catch a meal, to me ,is revolting. How dare they tax the dinner on my table? Fishing for me and many others on the Cape and elsewhere for that matter is not a sport but a necessity. Everyone in this country is not well to do(anymore). Just when this economy hits the skids, our table fare is taxed. Let me be first to say this: Screw that , I will not pay on friggin dime for a saltwater permit...Period. I am now and forever, a poacher. I will kill and eat the King's deer.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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06-12-2008, 09:36 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Freeport, Maine
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missing angler information
For those of you in Maine check this link out. It goes to the DMR and is for an angler logbook. I fill one out each year and it takes about 3 minutes to fill out after fishing.
http://www.maine.gov/dmr/recreational/logbooksurvey.htm
Sorry for you guys in Mass....our socialist governer is pushing hard for a saltwater fishing tax as well......right in the pooper  |
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06-12-2008, 09:53 PM
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Karl. I haven't bought a freshy license in 10 years, My clamming permits are only 6 bucks , I think, and Tony does a grand job of managing the greatest flats in the World. And I'm just this close to driving the beaches without a permit, 150 bucks and I've been out twice since. Look , I don't drive on vegetation, I don't climb hills, I don't run over birds( and I've seen evidence of that , and it makes me sick), so what's the gripe with me and other guys like myself who just want to fish? What did we do to deserve being "fined" on a yearly basis? I just don't get it. It's never going to end, the pocket picking ,until we somehow make it end. So what do we do?
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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06-12-2008, 09:58 PM
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Yeah they need the money from us fishers
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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