10-27-2010, 02:19 PM
[quote Jacksonman]
Can you imagine Strawberry that has trout population of 40% cutt, 20% bows, 10% hybrid, 15% tiger, 10% brookie and 5% brown?! Talk about a money producer! I would have no reason to fish anywhere else! [/quote]
I'm not trying to have a big argument here, but that makes no sense to me as written, so would like some clarification. How would it be a bigger money producer? Are you suggesting that this would all the sudden create more fishing license sales in Utah? Because even if it did increase the amount of angler hours, if it doesn't increase license sales it isn't increasing as a money producer. How would you only going to the Berry make any more money for the state than it is already making off of you? Strawberry already has by far the most angler hours per year in the state. I don't think putting in browns or other species in would change that all that much.
As for people asking for more variety while fishing....go to any water in the state other than Strawberry. You already have that. I can appreciate wanting variety in species. But those places already exist in HUGE numbers around the state. Why can't there be places for those of us who don't want to have all that variety, but appreciate a good cutthroat fishery? The people who want variety literally have hundreds of waters around the state. Those who want cutthroat fisheries have how many? It's about balance. If 95% of the stillwaters in the state the way you want it, then asking for the other 5% to be that way too is rather selfish and short sighted in my opinion.
There isn't any way to put hundreds of thousands of fish in a fishery each year without disrupting things. So to say that it will have no impact is just inaccurate.
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Can you imagine Strawberry that has trout population of 40% cutt, 20% bows, 10% hybrid, 15% tiger, 10% brookie and 5% brown?! Talk about a money producer! I would have no reason to fish anywhere else! [/quote]
I'm not trying to have a big argument here, but that makes no sense to me as written, so would like some clarification. How would it be a bigger money producer? Are you suggesting that this would all the sudden create more fishing license sales in Utah? Because even if it did increase the amount of angler hours, if it doesn't increase license sales it isn't increasing as a money producer. How would you only going to the Berry make any more money for the state than it is already making off of you? Strawberry already has by far the most angler hours per year in the state. I don't think putting in browns or other species in would change that all that much.
As for people asking for more variety while fishing....go to any water in the state other than Strawberry. You already have that. I can appreciate wanting variety in species. But those places already exist in HUGE numbers around the state. Why can't there be places for those of us who don't want to have all that variety, but appreciate a good cutthroat fishery? The people who want variety literally have hundreds of waters around the state. Those who want cutthroat fisheries have how many? It's about balance. If 95% of the stillwaters in the state the way you want it, then asking for the other 5% to be that way too is rather selfish and short sighted in my opinion.
There isn't any way to put hundreds of thousands of fish in a fishery each year without disrupting things. So to say that it will have no impact is just inaccurate.
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