An 83-year-old Colorado fisherman has resurrected his 12-year combat for public freedom to wade within the state’s rivers, searching for arrest and risking conflicts with landowners through returning to a contested bend within the Arkansas River.
Roger Hill hiked throughout federally controlled public land to go into the river, donned his straw hat, and forged his dry-fly line alongside that privately owned stretch remaining weekend with out incident. This week, he prompt different anglers statewide to copy his civil disobedience and assert a public proper to fish and drift on navigable rivers — a freedom established in different western states.
Roger Hill, proper, fishes within the Arkansas River close to Cotopaxi along side Don Holmstrom co-chair pass backcountry, hunters, and anglers on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024. (Photograph courtesy of Cody Perry)
An 83-year-old Colorado fisherman has resurrected his 12-year combat for public freedom to wade within the state’s rivers, searching for arrest and risking conflicts with landowners through returning to a contested bend within the Arkansas River.
Roger Hill hiked throughout federally controlled public land to go into the river, donned his straw hat, and forged his dry-fly line alongside that privately owned stretch remaining weekend with out incident. This week, he prompt different anglers statewide to copy his civil disobedience and assert a public proper to fish and drift on navigable rivers — a freedom established in different western states.
Roger Hill, proper, fishes within the Arkansas River close to Cotopaxi along side Don Holmstrom co-chair pass backcountry, hunters, and anglers on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024. (Photograph courtesy of Cody Perry)
