Please Sign the petition to REOPEN Ventura Breakwall.

[to_bioman]

Done. One suggestion. Ask for the city that the person lives in. It currently records your IP address. I'm in New York this week, so if anyone bothers to check they aren't going to give my signature much weight thinking I'm some guy who just signed it in sympathy instead of being a local Ventura County resident who fishes the waters, pays taxes, and votes.

You guys are doing a great job addressing this issue. I think following up on the Brown Act angle is a good idea. If they did hold a meeting without notice and in secret, then anything they did at that meeting is illegal, even if they have the right to do it under normal circumstances.

Pat

[normannutbag]

YEP

[wodar1]

Done

[salty]

Please pass info to others.

[Wavehopper]

Mission Accomplished Done deal.

[Joey805]

I think you guys will be relatively pleased with the results of Jackpot and Flipper hooping with Mr Miller last night. He should be posting an update soon.

[sourcreamnjive]

Looking forward to that report!

Originally Posted by Joey805

I think you guys will be relatively pleased with the results of Jackpot and Flipper hooping with Mr Miller last night. He should be posting an update soon.

[FishersDad]

Done

[jephs422]

Originally Posted by Joey805

I think you guys will be relatively pleased with the results of Jackpot and Flipper hooping with Mr Miller last night. He should be posting an update soon.

[AguaYak]

Originally Posted by geoffster52

In all honesty, the only reason Ventura is closing the breakwater is there are too many people flying around there at night with no running lights, cutting boats off and it is seriously an accident waiting to happen. Yeah is sucks for all of us that play by the rules...Yes, I will probably take a lot of negative heat for this post.... But come on guys....You put 20-30 boats a night out at Ventura breakwater with half of them have no idea how to drive a boat in the first place, dropping nets close to the wall, picking them up, tangling lines, all in total darkness....And we are wondering why it closed

In all honesty that is not the reason.

Anyone running without lights gets busted, no lights, no play.

Poach hoopnets and you'll be rewarded next year with a totally private party, you know, just like the kids that Kick A.. in school get special privleges, honest people get suspended.

I hardly disagree about some not having the faintest idea on how to handle a boat but attrition should take them out, no need to protect the ignorant in my book.

All the so-called safety reasons I've read so far do not apply to kayakers, (no props, etc) and what about hooping from the docks, near the rocks? State law limits you to two hoops in that case. Reading a letter from the harbor master shows he didn't want fishing within 750 yards.

"Thank you again for the opportunity to put out factual information and share the reasoning behind the decision. I hope that people will come up, fish the area from 1/8 of a mile from the breakwater, and find out that it is a more pleasent experience than it has been in the past years."

I haven't posted before because I was too p.......d off and still am.

I would have had far less of a problem had he simply banned everyone rather than banning with a prejudice and playing favorites with some. He had a chance last year to take care of the problems and didn't, probably for the very same reasons.

Safety is needed by all, for sure, but I've never seen cops selectively enforce the law.