04-13-2018, 03:10 PM
[#0000FF]Logical...but subject to human weirdness. When a group of anglers with an agenda (being able to snag walleye) gets together to flood the meeting and slant the outcome they can get their vote over the paltry few who show up for the other side. That is what happened.
In recent communications with Chris Penne we discussed how poor the turnouts are for the RAC meetings. He readily recognizes that even after the hunting and fishing RACs were split...and we can go to either one we wish...there is still poor turnout. He admits that having to drive a long ways for a long winded meeting on a weekday night is not attractive to many folks...no matter how passionate they are about the single issue they want addressed.
Howsomever, based upon the much better rate of response to online surveys they are going to put more effort into getting the word out on these and encouraging anglers to chime in...and to also use the special options available to communicate in a non-survey format.
My personal prediction is that there will be a new set of regs for the inlet by the end of this year. It may be only a nighttime closure but whatever they can do to reduce wholesale walleye slaughter will be an improvement.
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In recent communications with Chris Penne we discussed how poor the turnouts are for the RAC meetings. He readily recognizes that even after the hunting and fishing RACs were split...and we can go to either one we wish...there is still poor turnout. He admits that having to drive a long ways for a long winded meeting on a weekday night is not attractive to many folks...no matter how passionate they are about the single issue they want addressed.
Howsomever, based upon the much better rate of response to online surveys they are going to put more effort into getting the word out on these and encouraging anglers to chime in...and to also use the special options available to communicate in a non-survey format.
My personal prediction is that there will be a new set of regs for the inlet by the end of this year. It may be only a nighttime closure but whatever they can do to reduce wholesale walleye slaughter will be an improvement.
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