03-27-2013, 04:44 AM
Another way those creel surveys get skewed is the IF&G will just set up a reporting station and have people voluntarily stop by and give reports rather then searching them out. This lends itself to having a heavier influx of reports of anglers that had success and the ones that got skunked just pass it by. As such, I usually divide the hours per fish they report by a reasonable factor to get a better idea of the fishing.
In the end it is another data point which is always great but I'd use it along with stream flows, weather, fish counts, time of year, etc. and not as a sole source for when to get out.
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In the end it is another data point which is always great but I'd use it along with stream flows, weather, fish counts, time of year, etc. and not as a sole source for when to get out.
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