I went fishing on the Gualala this weekend and was very excited to drop my canoe in for the float. When we showed up on Anapolis road to the put in, there was a Gualala Lumber company truck waiting up there with a guy that greeting us asking if we were on the "list." So I started asking him questions like why and when did this start happening and he went on with about three years ago and because people were ruining the trees around river and knocking silt into the water. I had to take a deep breath because I started seeing red, trying to comprehend what just came out of this loggers mouth. He also went on to tell me the "the permit is 300 dollars or something and I think you have to get it at the office." It seemed very unofficial and maybe not really the truth the way this guy was trying to tell me.
Has anyone else ran into this problem up there? It only hurt my feeling for a short while due to the fact that I went down to fish the raceway instead and landed a nice 9 pound hen on the swing.
I later talked to some locals and also some people that came down on prams and they seemed to think it was a bunch of bull too. So I guess if you are planning to float it, there might be a red pickup at the top right at sunrise waiting to tell you that you are about to ruin the river bank if you proceed.
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