If u really want to get technical, everybody pays to fish!!!!! For the most part everybody uses public waterways to fish, some fish in state parks & so on. But everybody has to have a license to fish.....so that we(the states) can keep up with those waterways & stock them & so on....so everybody pays to fish.....now that ought to stir them up a bit!!!:smile2:
Yes, you are correct to a point but, when you buy a license you are helping keep regulations obeyed( in most cases), it helps keep the biologists on top of things and, many other things that go on behind the scense with your states DNR people!
Now once you have bought your license and you go to a Pay-as-you-fish place, you pay them to buy the (breeder)fish out of our public waters, which is why I don't condone them. Saying you can't get to a public lake or river to fish, is a copout. It boils down to "wanting it now" syndrome. Think about it..."We live in a world where everyone expects results now", it is true with, the way we eat and, the way we learn.
Examples:
McDonalds and other fast food chains.
Internet
Ebay
And the list goes on and on..........
So what I am saying is, you need to relax and slow down or life will pass you by if you don't stop and smell the roses folks!!!!