HT, you have a very flawed understanding of NYS Fishing and land use laws. Posted has meant the stream, too, since as long as I have been on the planet, it is a fairy tale that you are ok as long as you stayed in the water. Clubs such as the Tahawus Club (Upper Hudson and Opalescent), the clubs on the upper Beaverkill, the Garbutt Club on Spring Brook and Oatka Creek in WNY, just to name a couple, have posted their banks and waters for over a hundred years, and have vehemently prosecuted trespassers. AS I know you have heard from Fred, Doug posted his property and started DSR because of the complete chytshow that was happening in the fall, the amount of garbage left both on the river and in access points, and to subsidize the costs of liability insurance he was having to buy, to protect himself from lawsuits from the families of people who drowned upstream but washed up on his ground, and the inevitable casualties of the mayhem going on on his property. 2Bob first , and then I when I arrived shortly later, helped him pick up up in the old lot on 13, and that was not long before the posters went up. He did not challenge anything, he maintained that he owned the Riparian rights, including the fishing rights, when sued by the Driftboat guides, and the Courts found in his favor, and in favor of other riparians if certain conditions of title were met, as they were for DSR. I do not like to have to pay to access " public" fish, but none of the public trout leave the river in the private preserve, so it does not lessen the opportunity of upstream fishers to get at that part of the resource. What is a round of golf cost at a private course now? A Single membership for 7 day access at a small country club nearby is over $1000 a season. In that light, the fee at DSR is not so expensive, and since I only have a few years of being able to do the death marches, I'm willing to pay for the better experience now.
Fichy, high probability that we'll be in town on the 29th, I'll watch for the beard!