Fly Fishing Photography of Corey Kruitbosch » water rights

Utah Access Removed

corey — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:57:20 +0000

Governor, Gary Herbert signed a bill that tuned over thousands of miles of Public Water to wealthy landowners, including a stretch of the Provo River belonging to his brother in law.

Growing-up my dad use to tell me about fishing certain sections of a river that is close to our home, with his father. At some point the various stretches on this river were sold, or inherited, and posted as private. On a regular basis, I would drive past these sections of river and think about his stories and hope that someday I could also fish them. It has been a nice couple of years with access to the water that I had been waiting to fish all this time. Hopefully, this will move through the courts fairly quick and access will be returned to the public that it belongs to.

Utah Water Guardians Lobbyist Fund!

corey — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:01:33 +0000

Spreading the word!

“ACCESS AND USE FUND UTAH!

In order to preserve our rights, a fund has been started

“Donate for (Recreational) Access and Use Utah! Fund” Your support keeps ALL our gained recreational rights preserved! “

For more information visit

www.utahwaterguardians.com

HB-187 Fails!

corey — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:34:35 +0000

A great day for all recreational users of the waters in Utah! House bill 187 failed today! Thank you to everyone who sent emails to their representatives! This really has been a huge effort by EVERYONE! Thanks to all the guys @ UToF who spent their days up @ the capitol in suits, the guys behind www.utahwaterguardians.org , and to everyone for pushing the factual information out there! The PEOPLE have sent a message and gotten BIG win!

EDIT (03/07/09): On Monday March 9th … Political wrangling will bring this bill back from the dead! What a warped political system that allows for this to be submitted over and over, with another arm or two twisted along the way. This bill is simply wrong. A poor piece of work that does not compromise, but restricts.

EDIT2 (03/09/09): WOW! We actually got more votes this go around! I do believe that there will not be another opportunity for Rep Ferry to try and push this “bill” through again … So, Its time to grab the maps and pick which previously private rivers I will be fishing this year!