Lately, there has been much talk about where sportsmen can hunt or fish, and what constitutes harassment of these licensed outdoorsmen. On Little Ossipee Lake in Waterboro, Maine, recently, the owner of a house tried to stop boaters from parking their boats on his property while unloading their boats for the trip home. He went so far as calling the police and the state of Maine warden service. His property was surveyed and he lost a bit of his property, but he won the right to have the trailers towed away if they park too close to his property. He then times the boaters and calls the police if the boater takes more then 10 minutes to unload, tie down his boat and leave the area.
He also plunked down five buoys along the edge of “his water” and put up signs saying that there would be a $50 fine if caught fishing within the buoys. That is against the law. You cannot stop fishermen, swimmers, canoes, kayakers or anyone from using the waters of the state of Maine or New Hampshire. As a fisherman, I have the right to fish anywhere I want if I have a fishing license.Read more….
“The writer of this article is a respected angler, event planner and outdoorsmen with years of experience in the sport fishing industry. Wayne Hooper’s opinions are well founded and prove that outdoorsmen need to ban together and protect our rights and teach others how to share these natural resources.”