08-20-2006, 05:19 PM
Let's throw aside the actual fishing with live bait issue. I don't think it is necassary, but to each his own.
The big picture here is the increased possibility and probability of live bait being dumped into other waters. You give people an inch, and they take a mile. The people that malicously transport live fish will continue to do it anyway... It's the people that are ignorant to the law that I would be most worried about.
John Smith traps his chubs at Strawberry, but the fishing is slow, so he moves down to Rockport (I am not sure if there is a chub population here or not... just an example) to see if the chubs work there. He gets done for the day and dumps the bucket of live chubs into the reservoir. Not good.
There are many fragile fisheries around here. The introduction of a new fish could potentially crash a fishery. I don't know about you, but I would rather my license fee and my tax dollars go to improving our fisheries.... Not poisening and rebuilding them.
Just my 2 cents. [
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And by the way.... Where is the spell check... I still don't see it! [
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The big picture here is the increased possibility and probability of live bait being dumped into other waters. You give people an inch, and they take a mile. The people that malicously transport live fish will continue to do it anyway... It's the people that are ignorant to the law that I would be most worried about.
John Smith traps his chubs at Strawberry, but the fishing is slow, so he moves down to Rockport (I am not sure if there is a chub population here or not... just an example) to see if the chubs work there. He gets done for the day and dumps the bucket of live chubs into the reservoir. Not good.
There are many fragile fisheries around here. The introduction of a new fish could potentially crash a fishery. I don't know about you, but I would rather my license fee and my tax dollars go to improving our fisheries.... Not poisening and rebuilding them.
Just my 2 cents. [
] And by the way.... Where is the spell check... I still don't see it! [
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