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Floater Courtesy

• When preparing for your launch, keep the launch site clear for others until your group is ready to launch.
• Please do not park in designated camping areas.
• When floating, consider the best way to approach other river users, so your presence and actions do not affect their experience.
• Be alert to the possibility of preventing an angler from hooking a fish by keeping the paddles out of the water and respond to the angler's signals.
• Try to hold your position upstream when approaching an angler who has a fish hooked.
• Recognize hand signals used by anglers.
• When launching or landing your craft, please be courteous to shore users. Respect campers and private property.

Angler Courtesy

• Let the angler who first arrives at the pool finish fishing without interference.
• Share the water. After a reasonable time on a pool, either have the waiting anglers join you, ask them to pass through and fish below, or vacate the pool in favor of them.
• Allow fellow anglers room so their casts and drifts are free from interference and fish are not disturbed.
• Pull your line out of the water when another angler hooks a fish near you.
• Use hand signals to show boaters the way to pass the hole you are fishing.
• Exercise caution when fishing narrow passages, watch for floaters.
• Take used leaders, monofilament and other refuse with you when you leave the river.