02-08-2011, 03:34 PM
With all due respect, I think you are opening a can of worms here.
I have no problem with someone keeping a limit of fish, even when it is a large number or a large group, as long as they are put to good use. Putting are large number of fish to good use would be difficult for me if they were salmonids, but not difficult at all if they are panfish.
I also appreciate a good fishery with reduced limits, like the 2 fish limit on Henry's Lake. I'd actually like to see more lakes with a 2 fish limit. In fact, this next bit could probably be in a thread of it's own. In my opinion, many of the lakes that have a 6 fish limit could be excellent fisheries, close but probably not equal, to what we have at Henry's if the limit was reduced. Most of the 6 fish limit lakes I fish in I'd be really lucky to get a 13 or 14 inch fish. 6 13 inch fish = about 6 lbs of fish or so, probably closer to 4 lbs after the head, guts, skin, tail, etc is removed. Now, if I kept 2 fish from Henry's Lake, I'd likely have about 4-6 lbs of edible meat for the table. I'd gladly catch and release several nice fish and take home my 2 over struggling to catch 6 13-14 inchers.
I'd like to see the limits reduced state wide, then enforced. For instance, at the local ponds, fish and game will stock the ponds, and then within a few days they are practically picked clean. Leaving them hardly worth the effort for the 8-10 days until they stock again. If they reduced the limits and then enforced them, those fish would last the whole 2 weeks and fishing would always be good in the local ponds. I have no facts to back this up, as it is just my opinion, but I believe it would be correct should some changes be implemented.
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I have no problem with someone keeping a limit of fish, even when it is a large number or a large group, as long as they are put to good use. Putting are large number of fish to good use would be difficult for me if they were salmonids, but not difficult at all if they are panfish.
I also appreciate a good fishery with reduced limits, like the 2 fish limit on Henry's Lake. I'd actually like to see more lakes with a 2 fish limit. In fact, this next bit could probably be in a thread of it's own. In my opinion, many of the lakes that have a 6 fish limit could be excellent fisheries, close but probably not equal, to what we have at Henry's if the limit was reduced. Most of the 6 fish limit lakes I fish in I'd be really lucky to get a 13 or 14 inch fish. 6 13 inch fish = about 6 lbs of fish or so, probably closer to 4 lbs after the head, guts, skin, tail, etc is removed. Now, if I kept 2 fish from Henry's Lake, I'd likely have about 4-6 lbs of edible meat for the table. I'd gladly catch and release several nice fish and take home my 2 over struggling to catch 6 13-14 inchers.
I'd like to see the limits reduced state wide, then enforced. For instance, at the local ponds, fish and game will stock the ponds, and then within a few days they are practically picked clean. Leaving them hardly worth the effort for the 8-10 days until they stock again. If they reduced the limits and then enforced them, those fish would last the whole 2 weeks and fishing would always be good in the local ponds. I have no facts to back this up, as it is just my opinion, but I believe it would be correct should some changes be implemented.
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