be cool

I saw a number of kayaks launched out of an area where the ramp is closed to boat traffic today. I think that's great that you got out there. Hope you all found fish.

However, in my opinion it's probably not a good time to post up your grip and grins on social media platforms. There are people there that pay year round to reserve moorage slips and others that have invested countless thousands of dollars in their offshore boats that can't currently use those facilities.

In the interest of keeping good relations with the powerboat community it might be best if you keep your success to yourselves. We'll all give you internet high fives when you post up pics after this is in the rear view mirror.

ocean?

But the biggest reason I bought a kayak is to piss off motorboats...

Multiple kayaks launching from one location is a bit concerning. The last thing we need is to "form a crowd" that convinces officials that the people can't be trusted to follow social distance rules while fishing. I hope they were at least local.

If we want to continue fishing, we need to be smart about it. Stay within your local area. Bust out your book of "secret" primitive beach launches, or go discover some. Stay away from anything that even remotely resembles a group or crowd. Don't ruin it for everyone.

Sitting a home and looking at the beach.
Yeah, not so amused.

Can't argue with that view though.  Beautiful.

Ling Banger nailed it.  There's no surer way to shut something down right now than to post about it on Social Media.

-Mark-

This is a far more reasonable approach to this topic. Thank you

However, in my opinion it's probably not a good time to post up your grip and grins on social media platforms.

In the interest of keeping good relations with the powerboat community it might be best if you keep your success to yourselves. We'll all give you internet high fives when you post up pics after this is in the rear view mirror.

Ling Banger nailed it.  There's no surer way to shut something down right now than to post about it on Social Media.

-Mark-

Unfortunately this needs a bump.

First rule of kayak fishing during a stay at home order is... don't go on social media and publicize the fact.  Particularly if you went out in an area where power boats are currently prohibited to launch.  Let's try and keep fishing open.

Agreed.  Responsible boating and fishing sensitive to public sentiment are a must if we want to keep fishing open.  Nice reminder from snopro that fishing is a privilege and that it can be revoked if we cannot be entrusted with sharing public spaces responsibly and respectfully.

In OREGON its a privilege. In some states, its actually a right, one that should not be infringed. Oregon needs to get with the program....

 

In OREGON its a privilege. In some states, its actually a right, one that should not be infringed. Oregon needs to get with the program....

Has Oregon done something to infringe on our ability to fish?  I went salmon fishing the other day. Was I not supposed to? I plan to do it again soon.  I know the Coastal communities may be intolerant of us and is preventing people fro using their property to launch at this time but, as someone with an extensive background in the sciences - particularly microbiology- I saw this pandemic coming back in January and I do not blame the coastal folks for wanting us to stay away.  Even if it is your "right" to fish, it is not your right to cause harm to anyone else by transmitting a disease, particularly one that is as virulent as this one. But that is just my opinion, and some may agree with me that it is also common human decency.

Someone asked me yesterday if there's a hospital where I live.  We don't even have a doctor in town, nor a nurse, and nary a pharmacy.  That's hard for people to understand if they don't live along the coast, but for many of us, it's a fact of life.

You know what an ambulance costs to transport you 76 miles to the nearest hospital?  I do.  It costs $7,325 to get someone to an Emergency Room, and I paid $3,780 of that out of pocket.

Someone asked me yesterday if there's a hospital where I live.  We don't even have a doctor in town, nor a nurse, and nary a pharmacy.  That's hard for people to understand if they don't live along the coast, but for many of us, it's a fact of life.

You know what an ambulance costs to transport you 76 miles to the nearest hospital?  I do.  It costs $7,325 to get someone to an Emergency Room, and I paid $3,780 of that out of pocket.

Gold Beach has a nice new hospital, that trip is cut in half, ambulance bill probably only $5k. Pocket change.

All rights get infringed upon - none of them is absolute. In no state are citizens allowed to hunt & fish for what they want, when they want, where they want.

Also, many people seem to forget that freedoms can only be sustained if people are also responsible. Act responsibly, and few people will seek to restrain your freedoms. Act irresponsibly - more people take notice and seek to start restraining you. Rules are usually made to restrain a few bad actors, but everybody else is made to follow them, too. (If you are acting responsibly, then I'm not pointing my finger at you.)

Be responsible, be safe, be cool.

Damn, that soapbox is way higher than I should be climbing to...