Tag Archive: Recreational Rights

Kayak Fishing Rights on Posted Waterways

Last summer, I had posted an article about fishing posted property from a kayak… Moreover, what you could and couldn’t do based on current interpretations of New York State law. (Your state may vary, so be sure to look into it.) As it happens, it looks like the DEC website is still referencing the 1997 …

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New Spot to Consider

I bumped into the Freeman’s NYS Outdoors blog today, which is one I should have been aware of because of their reknown the WNY area. They made mention of a State purchase of land: More land in the Finger Lakes region will be protected from development now that the state has purchased 172 acres in …

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Fishing, Kayaking, and Land Owner Rights

(Updated… click here) One of the topics I’ve been reading a lot about recently is access to creeks and other waterways for fishermen. In Western New York, we have many public access points for different streams and rivers, and a few of us are lucky enough to fall in with farmers/landowners and get additional access …

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