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[kevinfox2010]

Public land is public. If you own the property do as you wish. Point blank.

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[JBen]

Completely missing the points G, willfully or not I don't know, nor care.
1) Let us know when your remove your dock,you don't own the lake. So before griping about a few blinds at least walk the walk and take it out this weekend. And while your at it gripe about all the floating docks/diving platforms and rubber tramps, Islands, etc people anchor out in front of their cottages. And if you have any, remove those to.

2) Fact is, that blind especially if its made of natural materials is far less a footprint or impact than your having. So be careful throwing the words hunters are polluters.....
3) Count the oh so offensive blinds on your lake, now count everything else and let me know which is the greater pollutant.
4) Fact: Some people find them preferable to look at versus your cottage or what some deem cottages these days. Yep I would be one of those. Don't care what you do, if you want to dance around naked on your property, knock your self out. I still think your cottage is an eyesore.

In short don't throw stones at glass houses. I can guarantee you, you alone are leaving more pollution, more garbage, more gas and phosphates in the lake, than that oh so offensive blind. And now, add everything else

Its not "your" lake.
And what do you do every Sunday?
Drive back to the GTA with a few hundred thousand other people.....All doing the same things.

[fishermccann]

Come on JB now you are just being silly. That is junk left on public property nothing more. The person who built that blind left to rot on everyone else's ,(public) property also left a footprint getting there and building it because I bet that person lives in the GTA. But they don't have to watch it rot for the next 10 years. The rule of the outdoors is, and always should be, if you bring it in, you take it back out. On land you do not own ,that should be obvious.

[JBen]

Not arguing it.Would prefer if people who build them took them down when its time.

But honestly, your "no" better., not sure I am in ways If your going to gripe about that one, or two blinds per se, A) do more than talk the talk B) Look around, put it into perspective and gripe about oversized docks, floating swimming platforms and more. City folk seem to think these lakes are your personal playgrounds. Fact, when we had our cottage on Chiming the dock wasn't in all the time and the boats were pulled up (or winched) up onto shore every weekend..........



You said hunters are polluters, uh uh everyone is. How many Tims cups and water bottles do I see every summer on every lake, left by cottagers and weekend warriors? How much crap do you leave on your yard does the wind blow in to the Lake every summer. Maybe a few of the bags of chips you leave by the fire pit after a drunken night or even a plastic chair the odd time? How many plastic bags blown out of boats, off docks.....How many cottagers have put in tons and tons of Stone and landscaping on shorelines. Ive seen "retaining walls" worth a million bucks.....How many of you cottagers toss or leave plastic baits in the waters. Ever seen pics of Bass and Pike with stomachs just bursting with plastis left to rot in the Lake? And on and on and on an on. Those few blinds are a drop in the ocean.

But that one oh so offensive blind that you hate, and ruins your view and serenity. Too funny
Don't throw stones at glass houses G.

Dollars to donuts the majority of blinds are built by locals. Know for fact 2 of the ones out from me, the builders canoe to. That's neither here nor there, but of all things to riled up about, all the things you turn blind eyes to, and instead that one blind, gets you fired up....

[Gilroy]

"Its not "your" lake.
And what do you do every Sunday?
Drive back to the GTA with a few hundred thousand other people.....All doing the same things."

Well generally you are correct but I could show you some lakes where a motor has never been on and they have been fished all summer and there is not a single trace of pollution,cigarette butts,fishing line.

That being said I could then show you a local neighbor, who is a local and has had his tree stands on Crown land for the past 20 years and claims the right to use the stands to the exclusion of all others and tries to exclude all others from using the Crown Land.

[JBen]

No doubt Gilroy. One of the point I've tried to make and reinforce through out this thread, and lately with G.

Its not old timers stuck on old ways it's new hunters to.
Its not just waterfowlers, it's moose hunters who....and deer hunters who...
its not just hunters, it's anglers, recreational boaters
it's not just hunters, it's cottagers to

but if we want to look at things, things to get riled up about on various lakes. By far generally speaking hunters don't scratch the top of the dung pile. And even those who do, it's still way less of an impact than.....

perspective.
and one old blind made of cedars, some press board and rushes...lol. Well if that gets the blood boiling............................

anytime you want to show that lake where a guy could truly get away from "humanity" and feel as though he lost.

just send me the GPS coordinates. Promise I won't leave many footprints.

[diverduck]

Tradition is a big part of hunting. I'm sad to see that there are so few left that get that!

[mooner]

Back to the original poster.
Was the sign there when you scouted the spot before opening day?

[fishermccann]

"Its not "your" lake.
And what do you do every Sunday?
Drive back to the GTA with a few hundred thousand other people.....All doing the same things."

Well generally you are correct but I could show you some lakes where a motor has never been on and they have been fished all summer and there is not a single trace of pollution,cigarette butts,fishing line.

That being said I could then show you a local neighbor, who is a local and has had his tree stands on Crown land for the past 20 years and claims the right to use the stands to the exclusion of all others and tries to exclude all others from using the Crown Land.

Well after 20 years it's his , 'tradition'.

[fishermccann]

Tradition is a big part of hunting. I'm sad to see that there are so few left that get that!

When 'tradition' breaks the law, the tradition is wrong / outdated and should be stopped.