Wow. I write something last night and look what happens by the time I get home from work today.
I don't disagree at all with the notion that more COs are needed, I didn't even mention it last night because I thought that, that was common knowledge. I know many fishermen who have never been carded or even met a CO. In my 40 years of fishing I have encountered 4 COs that I can recall and once was partly my own doing by making repeated calls for 3 weeks to the MNR tips line (1-877-847-7667) about loogans keeping Bass before the opener at the dam in Caledonia. Another time was also my own doing partly, ice fishing on Lake Scogog the ice was thick but the weather turned unseasonably warm and the Bass came up out of their wintering places an began to bite and loogans began to keep them. We started calling Friday, the MNR showed up Sunday. I could see them on shore with their binoculars scoping the ice for an hour or 2. Then they proceeded onto the ice and began to bust and confiscate.
I also do agree with slot size limits and have fished many places where this works, maybe I should have mentioned that. What I'm saying about a minimum size limit is that it could be incorporated too. The slot limit could be used but also say that no Walleye under 6 inches or whatever may be keep. Many have made the point that there is an expected mortality rate in young fish, but if we take certain people who fish out of the equation ( those who keep 6 inch walleye ) will the mortality rate not have a chance of being a little less? Possibly some of these 6 inch fish that are being kept are the offspring of a trophy mother or father or both and if it is given the chance to survive, how big will its offspring be?
I seriously don't think any of the anglers I see regularly on this forum would even think about keeping babies and I'm not even really certain why anyone would. I just think that maybe it should be added to the regs.
When we were kids and we caught a fish and asked my father if we could keep it and it was a bit on the smallish side he had a standard answer. " No. It's to small. Let it grow up and have a chance to make babies of its own."
Alfie.
I don't disagree at all with the notion that more COs are needed, I didn't even mention it last night because I thought that, that was common knowledge. I know many fishermen who have never been carded or even met a CO. In my 40 years of fishing I have encountered 4 COs that I can recall and once was partly my own doing by making repeated calls for 3 weeks to the MNR tips line (1-877-847-7667) about loogans keeping Bass before the opener at the dam in Caledonia. Another time was also my own doing partly, ice fishing on Lake Scogog the ice was thick but the weather turned unseasonably warm and the Bass came up out of their wintering places an began to bite and loogans began to keep them. We started calling Friday, the MNR showed up Sunday. I could see them on shore with their binoculars scoping the ice for an hour or 2. Then they proceeded onto the ice and began to bust and confiscate.
I also do agree with slot size limits and have fished many places where this works, maybe I should have mentioned that. What I'm saying about a minimum size limit is that it could be incorporated too. The slot limit could be used but also say that no Walleye under 6 inches or whatever may be keep. Many have made the point that there is an expected mortality rate in young fish, but if we take certain people who fish out of the equation ( those who keep 6 inch walleye ) will the mortality rate not have a chance of being a little less? Possibly some of these 6 inch fish that are being kept are the offspring of a trophy mother or father or both and if it is given the chance to survive, how big will its offspring be?
I seriously don't think any of the anglers I see regularly on this forum would even think about keeping babies and I'm not even really certain why anyone would. I just think that maybe it should be added to the regs.
When we were kids and we caught a fish and asked my father if we could keep it and it was a bit on the smallish side he had a standard answer. " No. It's to small. Let it grow up and have a chance to make babies of its own."
Alfie.
