09-28-2010, 01:34 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Sorry Cliff. Gotta side with PBH here...as much as it pains me to do so.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]You are citing examples of lakes in which populations crashed through natural events of drought, fluctuating water levels, massive dieoffs, etc...not angler pressure.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It is virtually impossible for anglers to fish out a lake with perch or bass in them. Disease, drought and predators all take a much higher toll on fish populations than anglers ever can.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I fear that your protestations against other anglers keeping fish is generally clouded by your own emotions and not good biology. You are entitled to practice your own concepts of selective harvest but you are not helping your own image by trying to pound them into everybody else. Leave the regulations and fisheries management to DWR. They do the best they can with what they have and their decisions are based upon REAL biology...not emotions or personal preferences.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]You are citing examples of lakes in which populations crashed through natural events of drought, fluctuating water levels, massive dieoffs, etc...not angler pressure.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It is virtually impossible for anglers to fish out a lake with perch or bass in them. Disease, drought and predators all take a much higher toll on fish populations than anglers ever can.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I fear that your protestations against other anglers keeping fish is generally clouded by your own emotions and not good biology. You are entitled to practice your own concepts of selective harvest but you are not helping your own image by trying to pound them into everybody else. Leave the regulations and fisheries management to DWR. They do the best they can with what they have and their decisions are based upon REAL biology...not emotions or personal preferences.[/#0000ff]
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