11-17-2013, 01:33 PM
[#0000FF]Thanks. I appreciate your open mindedness and I respect the reasons for your opinions. I also apologize if I seemed to be attacking you. All I wanted to do is make the point that folks who show up only once or twice...and during daylight hours...are not likely to see the real problem. Criminals (poachers) do not like to be seen doing their work. They plan their attacks when there is the least likelihood of having witnesses...and they are quick to boogie when there is a threat of being discovered. The main offenders at Willard Bay are a well organized group with lookouts, cellphone communications, etc. They are not "sportsmen" who inadvertently snag a fish and keep it.
I have not voiced my opinion on the biologists or the wildlife board...or trying to get the governor involved. I have had my own "jousting at windmills" experience with that whole process and recognize it for what it is...a sham facade maintained to delude the angling public into believing that all regulations are for the good of the public. They would have you believe that a once a year netting...in arbitrary but often meaningless locations...along with sporadic creel census surveys...among doofus anglers...is enough to provide them with infallible knowledge and understanding of all aspects of any given fishery. And in spite of what some of the most experienced and knowledgeable anglers have to say, the all-knowing biologists form their own opinions and shepherd them through the process...sometimes to the detriment of all the hard work and time put in by concerned angling groups.
For the most part I am a supporter of DWR and I count many of their employees among my short list of true friends. But I allow them the luxury of being human and subject to making mistakes. Making right decisions for the wrong reasons...or vice versa...is a common human trait. Guilty myself more often than I care to admit.
In the case of the Willard Bay inlet closure...or opening...I think they got it wrong. Don't like it but nothing I...or apparently anyone else...can do about it. Too bad for the walleyes. Combining the extreme low water conditions with heavily harvested spawning size fish is almost certainly going to mean that those of us who fish for walleye during the rest of the year are going to find fewer fish.
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I have not voiced my opinion on the biologists or the wildlife board...or trying to get the governor involved. I have had my own "jousting at windmills" experience with that whole process and recognize it for what it is...a sham facade maintained to delude the angling public into believing that all regulations are for the good of the public. They would have you believe that a once a year netting...in arbitrary but often meaningless locations...along with sporadic creel census surveys...among doofus anglers...is enough to provide them with infallible knowledge and understanding of all aspects of any given fishery. And in spite of what some of the most experienced and knowledgeable anglers have to say, the all-knowing biologists form their own opinions and shepherd them through the process...sometimes to the detriment of all the hard work and time put in by concerned angling groups.
For the most part I am a supporter of DWR and I count many of their employees among my short list of true friends. But I allow them the luxury of being human and subject to making mistakes. Making right decisions for the wrong reasons...or vice versa...is a common human trait. Guilty myself more often than I care to admit.
In the case of the Willard Bay inlet closure...or opening...I think they got it wrong. Don't like it but nothing I...or apparently anyone else...can do about it. Too bad for the walleyes. Combining the extreme low water conditions with heavily harvested spawning size fish is almost certainly going to mean that those of us who fish for walleye during the rest of the year are going to find fewer fish.
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