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We always looked at it as opening day was for whomever built the blind that year. so did the Game Wardens.
After opening day it belonged to anyone and everyone. Most( the ones near my house)are left year round.
I have no issues with it. Mostly to me, it's the hokey nets/ice huts and docks left abandoned to sink every year.
Lol G, Good thing we know each other :) because it would be too easy for people.........Quote:
Originally Posted by skypilot
Your really hung up on this blind out front of your cottage. I do understand this thread is about water fowling, and posting spots, but.......
There are laws about litter to, and shorelines and docks and so much more. Yet........
And there are laws about plastic baits thrown over board, and swimming platforms that are left to fall apart, or break away in winds, or just simply placed well out from shore, with no lights for nighttime waterfowlers to avoid running into them and more...
And granite boulders the size of micro fuel efficient cars city dwellers buy to feel good about themselves and lots of them, to line their shore and show off their "property"...and plastic bags, or chip bags, and water bottles....
And Tims cups and ice cap lids that get caught on fish
And plastic beer can holders the ducks get caught in
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if the link doest work google "Duck plastic litter" or "Fish plastic litter" and go to images.
And so very much more I could name.
But that one blind really has you fired up doesn't it.....................
Don't know why the MNR is ok with them. Could be because they are almost always natural materials, that are going to break down. Usually way out of the way, and often in cat tails so not really visible ( I understand thats not always the case) but certainly not the eyesores so much more is.
I thought about ice huts last night when you so riled, but unlike most WF blinds, they are not..part of the environment, and not off in back bays where no one might collide with them, are usually not obtrusive, and when they fall down, they are well, like any other tree that gets blown down....Unlike whats loose on your cottage yard. And unlike the cement cinder blocks used to hold docks and anchor diving platforms and so more more........
Can say, now that I live in an area with a lot of blinds. Most have the builders names on them. So its not hard see built by Joe smith and reserved for openers by John Smith. And most often its the same builders who maintain during the off season, all 9 nine months of it, especially May to Oct when everyone ( hundreds of thousands) is treating the Lake like their own personal playground and dump, who then go back to the GTA in their micro fuel efficient cars feeling good about themselves while slagging hunters and that one darn blind that ruins their view.
Duck blinds in a marsh are part of our heritage. They were there long before cottages and "citiots". In fact, the presence of a duck blind can make a significant difference when an area is being assessed for development. If there is a duck blind, it can be noted as a heritage site, and stop any development, so they aren't all bad. I just hate the idiots who use them most times. I would much rather look out my cottage window and look at a duck blind than I would a developed shoreline full of million dollar "cottages" that are bigger than my home.
S.
I've always been big on tradition along with honor among sportsman. Unfortunately,those days are numbered. Maybe, WF blinds should be tagged with the hunters name,address and be removed the same way ice fishing huts must be removed.
Trying to stop development because there's duck blinds present? Geez,Sinker,I'm the first guy to stand for tradition,but,nobody will ever buy that one.LOL It's good,though. I sure like the idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sinker
Can't recall specifics and I could very easily be wrong, but somewhere in the cobwebs of this dusty old filing system of mine. I seem to want to recall a niggling strand of memory of just that Trimmer. No doubt, the better arguement would be using the habitat, wetlands, species etc. but there's something tickling my memories that yup, it has happened.
With respect to the sidebars. Just this past year, access to a lake and public boat launch (iinnisfil) had to closed. I'm pretty sure it wasn't because of the odd old blind and hunters.
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in th end, if some people want to hold onto tradition. Why not? Think also dogs and deer in the big woods.
if some get bothered by post, or if you do post or think it helps reduce the chaos but people won't "honour/respect" it.
Or for some bothered by that ( people just trying to find a spot opening day and having to charge like mad men at 1am, and then finding people camping out a day before.)
Or posting the blind you maintain, only to discover someone in it at 4am. So u go to your second blind and it to has been usurped despite a "please respect that I maintain it, and only ask this one morning of the entire season" and then your off to your 3rd. It's now 6am and your going to be setting up in the light.
ask yourself if that's why you hunt, and do find pellets raining down you on openers peaceful, relaxing...maybe wait a day or 3 until the zoo calms down, and..
Yep. It's true. MNR had a weighting system that they use before lands are re-classified or rezoned. A duck blind makes it more difficult for developers.Quote:
Originally Posted by trimmer21
Years ago we had a group of developers trying to develop around a marsh in Innisfil. They were trying to lobby the township to prevent hunting within the area because they could not get permits. The reason they could not get permits was in part thanks to the duck blind on this marsh. It added points to the mnr's assesment and thus kept the developers at bay.
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Good to know the cobwebs while growing, haven't completely dusted my memory, lol. Thanks BT.
darn those old decrepit blinds
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More elitism from the usual suspects. "I'm special from the city" so kotow to my every need up to and including providing me a "view" especially if it will take away from the rural residents' enjoyment.
However, they scream NIMBY if anything is to be build in their "center of the universe" that would benefit all Ontarians and will do anything up to and including ensuring depotism in Ontario and the utter destruction of it.
G, you like to fish, try fishing around the duckblind. I have one close and it ALWAYS produces a quality bass and several nice ones.
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Originally Posted by fishermccann
Yup even the locals have the NIMBY syndrome.