01-16-2014, 03:38 PM
thank you for your thoughtful input. It adds insight to the conversation and will contribute to the decision making process to many of us that struggle as to the new management plan....To kill or to release these great fish, particularly the big spawning females?
I, for one, am opposed to the 20 fish limit. It spells waste. This is an irrefutable fact.
As an example,even if the law allowed the harvesting of 20 pheasants a day and I could have 2 days possession limits. I would not. If pheasants were as common as sparrows, I still would not nor would I take more of anything than I could eat.
I can understand the logic of it, just as I can understand no limits on stripe bass on Lake Powell. During my tenure on Powell we caught 1,000's of striped bass, aside from those that were emaciated due to no forage base, none were wasted. All were consumed by us or filleted, wrapped and given to those who wanted to eat them. This new limit is going to lead to blatant waste of a magnificent game fish.
From my experiences on Yuba the fish are healthy and the numbers have not outgrown the carp forage base. The fish are not stunting as a result of over-populations and they might never if good spawning conditions do not materialize in the future.
I am an old opinionated man and fishing is my last great passion. To me and many of my angling friends it comes to this; in spite of the legality of the killing of the big spawners and even the scientific necessity of doing so...Will we?
I think you know the answer.
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I, for one, am opposed to the 20 fish limit. It spells waste. This is an irrefutable fact.
As an example,even if the law allowed the harvesting of 20 pheasants a day and I could have 2 days possession limits. I would not. If pheasants were as common as sparrows, I still would not nor would I take more of anything than I could eat.
I can understand the logic of it, just as I can understand no limits on stripe bass on Lake Powell. During my tenure on Powell we caught 1,000's of striped bass, aside from those that were emaciated due to no forage base, none were wasted. All were consumed by us or filleted, wrapped and given to those who wanted to eat them. This new limit is going to lead to blatant waste of a magnificent game fish.
From my experiences on Yuba the fish are healthy and the numbers have not outgrown the carp forage base. The fish are not stunting as a result of over-populations and they might never if good spawning conditions do not materialize in the future.
I am an old opinionated man and fishing is my last great passion. To me and many of my angling friends it comes to this; in spite of the legality of the killing of the big spawners and even the scientific necessity of doing so...Will we?
I think you know the answer.
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