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Originally posted by Joey:
I had a similar experiance. Here in NC, Lake Norman. I set out to go fishing for BG, I had heard there was CNBG in the lake. I grabed a UL pole a few worms and set out. I went to the public lauch, started fishing and just about got arrested. OH ya if you dont have a boat your not welcome at the lauches..any of them. You cant even go in to the parking lot unless it is to launch a boat. So I set off to find a little spot to fish. 3 hours of serching, up every road down every corner I could find. There is no place someone from foot can fish. Every single bridge is posted and every inch of shorline is either owned private ot posted. Bottom line if you dont have a boat, your not welcome is the feeling I got. The Sherrif sent me to the state park and painted this great picture of fishing and everything, it was a Paved road with forest on both sides and to fish you had to track threw the woods down huge mountains to even get close to the water.
Yep so much for public water eh? Here too if you don't have a boat you're screwed. Private property all around the lakes. I saw a young couple make the mistake of tip toeing across the corner of a guys property to get to a spot that was public once while I was sitting out in boat. He came barreling out of his cottage and called them every name but a white man. Teh SOB doesn't even fish like many of the cottage owners! I was so mad I was in tears. I really felt sorry for them. If I would have had room I would have been glad to have them join me. Here you can fish from the public launches but they are usually shallow and the fishing sucks there. Of course that doesn't keep the DNR public relations from making it sound like a the greatest spots to fish since cracked ice.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.