This whole thing is bad. There is also the letter of the law and the "Spirit" of the law. Clearly the "Spirit" of the law would exclude people engaged in recreational fishing. The Officer should have used some good old fashioned discretion and warned the poor guy who got the ticket.
This kind of reminds me of the mess going on in the Jackson River. http://www.potomacriverkeeper.org/updates/public-use-virginia%E2%80%99s-public-waterways-threatened
Public outcry could be the one thing that fixes this. It is something that needs to be looked into because those federal lands are for the public's use. We own this land as it is federal public land.
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