Letter to the Governor, Willard Bay inlet

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+100 This whole uproar is is merely an emotional one. There is no biological basis for closing that inlet. Nor is there a biological basis at Utah Lake either. Folks at the dwr confirmed the closure at the UL tribs is merely because of social pressure from over outspoken advocate groups, not because of any real danger to the walleye population. Even at UL most recruitment happens on the main lake spawn areas. The problematic thing is that idealistically, autonomy is an important thing to have. We should each be able to have individual thoughts and feelings, and be able to have freedom to act in accordance to our own moral standards. We don't have to force everyone else to share our opinions or force others to conform to our own personalized moral standards. People have a right to fish the inlet if it is legally open. There is no need to force a closure on it. No need to create a law that merely supports one viewpoint, that limits fishing opportunity. I think it's great to open the inlet. I've only caught two walleye out of willard in over 30 years. And they were both in the inlet opening this year. Those walleye do bite and can be taken legally and, it's walleye fishing, get real folks, people are lucky to even catch one walleye a night. Plus, it was well guarded, the dnr folks stayed till past midnight every day last year at the inlet and were "fishing" along with the crowd. I doubt many eyes were poached if really at all.
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