Optimum Online - News - AP News - Interest in Hunting, Fishing Dropping

Optimum Online - News - AP News - Interest in Hunting, Fishing Dropping. It doesn't surprise me that interest is dropping in hunting and fishing . Its gone out of style .Tell some one you hunt and they look at you like you are Attila the Huns first cousin
As the cities in this country sprawl further an further into the country An awful lot of good hunting land disappears . Then when you finally get where you are going the land is all posted .
I hunted for years on land owned by my friend Bob Wiltse .It used to take us 4-5 hrs to get there .We hunted deer ,turkey,and fished for over 20 yrs .
Bob retired and his family sold the land .There was a verbal agreement that Bob and his friends could use the land for turkey hunting because the new owner only wanted it for hunting deer . It didn't work out .Bob moved away and the new owner did want to hear that we were his friends .
I find it the same for accessing good trout streams . New York state has some of the best access to fishing in the country but the days of stopping along the side of the road and wetting a line are fast becoming a thing of the past .Every thing is POSTED.
Now you have to go to a fishing resort and spend a few hundred per day to find good fishing
New York state is also talking about a license to fish salt water .I'll be God damned if I ever buy one of those .I'll give up fishing and have a big yard sale.