04-29-2010, 04:08 PM
Goddess !!!!! Hello, just had to start by thanking my mentor, you probably don't even remember me from the utah posts but if it wasn't for you I probably would have given up on fly fishing! So thank you for your encouragement and all the posts you made instructing poor pitiful souls like me.
That being said, back to the subject at hand. After reading everyones views on this and the locked post. I actually understand why our government decided they had to regulate fishing in the first place. And all other "Government talk" aside I think they are doing a decient job as far as fish and game is concerned. However, in my humble oppinion I believe that SE Idaho is in desperate need of a true Trophy lake. Now, i'm still reletively new to the area, and it may all ready be out here somewhere? What I am saying is there should be a place where it's all C&R so that people that don't want to harvest don't have to see harvesting at all. I may not understand people that are extreme C&R only, but I can still repect them. On the other side there would still be plenty of areas where fish could be caught and kept. Anyway, I guess all I'm saying is that if someone has a Ideal spot for an all catch and release lake I would happily sign the petition, and be even more happy to go fish it without harvesting. In the meen time I am really hoping to get into a school of bows in SF, so I can fill my freezer. Then I'll probably be stictly C&R for the rest of the season. Because IMO spring fish taste better frozen then summer fish taste fresh. In my own defence I have never wasted a fish. But, I was raised to never kill what you don't plan to eat.
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That being said, back to the subject at hand. After reading everyones views on this and the locked post. I actually understand why our government decided they had to regulate fishing in the first place. And all other "Government talk" aside I think they are doing a decient job as far as fish and game is concerned. However, in my humble oppinion I believe that SE Idaho is in desperate need of a true Trophy lake. Now, i'm still reletively new to the area, and it may all ready be out here somewhere? What I am saying is there should be a place where it's all C&R so that people that don't want to harvest don't have to see harvesting at all. I may not understand people that are extreme C&R only, but I can still repect them. On the other side there would still be plenty of areas where fish could be caught and kept. Anyway, I guess all I'm saying is that if someone has a Ideal spot for an all catch and release lake I would happily sign the petition, and be even more happy to go fish it without harvesting. In the meen time I am really hoping to get into a school of bows in SF, so I can fill my freezer. Then I'll probably be stictly C&R for the rest of the season. Because IMO spring fish taste better frozen then summer fish taste fresh. In my own defence I have never wasted a fish. But, I was raised to never kill what you don't plan to eat.
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