I am all for kids, young and old, being able to fish with bait or lures on whatever brand of tackle they might scrounge up! I’m fine with them keeping a couple trout for dinner too. In no way does that make it appropriate, or acceptable on all waters! Nor should anyone be keeping limits of 5 trout for a meal either....
I have issues with several of the proposed changes, most having been already addressed. I live very close to several sections of the upper American basin that would be impacted negatively by these changes. The MFA has been mentioned already, but I’m even more concerned about the south fork (much more easy access). Of course the current regulations haven’t exactly been very protective of those streams either; people have been fishing with bait year round already on those streams due to zero enforcement
I agree that the risk of seeing some good fisheries collapse due to carelessness and greed is real. At one time people thought there was no way we could ever run out of salmon or steelhead, no matter how many were kept or how much habitat was destroyed... they were mistaken.
JB
"Lord help me to be the person my dog thinks I am"
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