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To My Immediate and Extended Virginia Fly Fishing Family

Posted 13 Jul 2011 in Fishin, news

As many of you may have heard, my brother-n-law and I are being sued in civil court by the developer of a golf community near Covington for fishing a section of the lower Jackson River.  He is seeking an injunction to prevent us (and all anglers) from wading in the river adjacent to his property, claiming that he owns the river bottom by virtue of an uninterrupted chain of deeds to that river bottom stretching all the way back to an original grant from King George III.  This despite the fact that this section of the river has been deemed navigable and public for many years, and is promoted by the state as a blue-ribbon fishery. For almost one...

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