[VFB] Re:TU Elitist??

[Jimmy D. Moore]

Not elitist at all, Deb. The $85 is for the whole year. Trout season is year-round. I'll pay 1/2 that or more for a round of golf, (including cart), on most of our better courses. Folks in TX pay $20-30 for a one day Dove lease and hundreds, even thousands for a good deer lease. Our TU chapter has a system that enables us to keep track of the lease payments. We hold several "lease orientation" sessions, which a lease purchaser must attend before fishing one of our leases. After the orientation session, they are given a Lease Pass, (certification), and map showing where the leases are located. There are no salmon rivers in Texas.

JIMMY

Deborah Duran wrote:

Jimmy
How do you keep track of who pays their dues when you "lease"  a river?
That sounds a little "elitist" to me.  Do they still lease salmon rivers
also?  That is one thing that kind of turns me off to trout unlimited.
Deb