Bamboozle
Well-known member
WM:
I respect your opinion but...
While I agree success in hunting is about killing; killing in hunting has nothing to do with the selective harvest analogy; it's about improving the survival rates for the other animals in regards to food supply, shelter, breeding etc. Better stock means better quality; bigger, stronger, etc. and that's everything in hunting. I don't hunt by the way so I only know what my hunting friends and Ted Nugent tell me. ;-)
While I'm no fisheries biologist; I find it impossible to believe that wild trout are the only species of fish that wouldn't see increased size, numbers and improvement in overall genetics if selective harvest is practiced. It works for WILD bass, WILD sunfish and just about every other of species of naturally reproducing gamefish.
On those brookie streams where there are 100 2" fish to every hole; is that the optimum fishing experience because many of us, including me don't mind catching a slew of 2" fish on occasion or is because with a decrease in natural predation and harvest there just ain't enough food, cover, spawning territory, etc available to enable some of those little guys to grow into the 10" monsters we all HOPE we may tie into.
I believe the latter and while I DON'T practice what I preach; I just happen to think the many of the fly fishing for trout community has a holier than thou attitude regarding C&R with opinions based more on romance than science.
I respect your opinion but...
While I agree success in hunting is about killing; killing in hunting has nothing to do with the selective harvest analogy; it's about improving the survival rates for the other animals in regards to food supply, shelter, breeding etc. Better stock means better quality; bigger, stronger, etc. and that's everything in hunting. I don't hunt by the way so I only know what my hunting friends and Ted Nugent tell me. ;-)
While I'm no fisheries biologist; I find it impossible to believe that wild trout are the only species of fish that wouldn't see increased size, numbers and improvement in overall genetics if selective harvest is practiced. It works for WILD bass, WILD sunfish and just about every other of species of naturally reproducing gamefish.
On those brookie streams where there are 100 2" fish to every hole; is that the optimum fishing experience because many of us, including me don't mind catching a slew of 2" fish on occasion or is because with a decrease in natural predation and harvest there just ain't enough food, cover, spawning territory, etc available to enable some of those little guys to grow into the 10" monsters we all HOPE we may tie into.
I believe the latter and while I DON'T practice what I preach; I just happen to think the many of the fly fishing for trout community has a holier than thou attitude regarding C&R with opinions based more on romance than science.
