Dear HCN,
As a frequent user of
trout streams on public lands, I have been amazed at the reluctance
of some of my fellow fishermen to pay user fees. People who use
$400 fly rods with $200 reels holding $45 lines, whose $150 vests
and $100 boots and $200 waders ride in $20,000 cars, will balk at
dropping, as your articles state, two bucks a day for access to the
Sawtooth National Recreation Area – five bucks for a whole year
(HCN, 10/13/97).
Sometimes I can’t help but think
that when someone says “It’s not the lousy five dollars, it’s the
principle of the thing,” it is, in fact, the lousy five
dollars.
Dave
Bogdon
Vancouver,
Washington
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline We’re cheap.
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