OhioOutdoorsman
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- Oct 26, 2006
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By all means, lets dump more fish in marginal trout water. Quite frankly, when I'm meat fishing, I want easy meat.
I kind of like that idea Sal......have two trout stamps. You could buy one and it would support C an R wild trout fishing experiences and entitle you to the C and R rivers the other to support stocked experiences and would entitle you to fish stocked streams. You could obviously buy both if you wish. You would be voting with your wallet.
The PFBC could then divide up the rivers or a portion of the rivers on a county by county or region by region basis into different regulations based somewhat on the ratio of those stamp sales in that county/region.
I really think the C and R fisherman and the meat/bait fisherman don't really want to fish the same streams in a lot of cases. So both groups could get what they want to a large degree without anyone practically giving up anything. I have absolutely no problem making a stream C and R if no meat fisherman want to fish it if it will make the C and R fisherman happy.
If you want to look at complicated fishing regs, look at washington state....i was just there and you need a seperate stamp for about every species of fish and another to park your car on public land. It was their way to have "seperate pots" of money to support various recreational uses of their public land. Its a pain in the butt but its equitable.
I kind of like that idea Sal......have two trout stamps. You could buy one and it would support C an R wild trout fishing experiences and entitle you to the C and R rivers the other to support stocked experiences and would entitle you to fish stocked streams. You could obviously buy both if you wish. You would be voting with your wallet.
The PFBC could then divide up the rivers or a portion of the rivers on a county by county or region by region basis into different regulations based somewhat on the ratio of those stamp sales in that county/region.
I really think the C and R fisherman and the meat/bait fisherman don't really want to fish the same streams in a lot of cases. So both groups could get what they want to a large degree without anyone practically giving up anything. I have absolutely no problem making a stream C and R if no meat fisherman want to fish it if it will make the C and R fisherman happy.
If you want to look at complicated fishing regs, look at washington state....i was just there and you need a seperate stamp for about every species of fish and another to park your car on public land. It was their way to have "seperate pots" of money to support various recreational uses of their public land. Its a pain in the butt but its equitable.