04-13-2012, 01:41 AM
I doubt it would make a dent.
A few years back I thought it would be a great business plan to hold an annual carp bash (grapple hooks outlawed). The DNW could help attract some serious business from all corners of the state by throwing in 3-4 premium hunts like moose, buffalo, and some of the top dawg elk and deer units.
The problem I ran into is an large event might pull a couple hundred thousand pounds of carp out if everything went perfect and the fishermen were pre-sync'd inside every carp brain. That best case is really not a whole lot considering the current goal is 6,000,000 lbs per year by the then-commercial-who-lost-his-business-so-now-he-has-a-government-contract fellow.
Bottom line, IMO, is we can't afford a bounty per lb. big enough to do anything but subsidize the current kill rate. Is anyone going to target carp for $.10 per pound? Maybe some would, IDK.
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A few years back I thought it would be a great business plan to hold an annual carp bash (grapple hooks outlawed). The DNW could help attract some serious business from all corners of the state by throwing in 3-4 premium hunts like moose, buffalo, and some of the top dawg elk and deer units.
The problem I ran into is an large event might pull a couple hundred thousand pounds of carp out if everything went perfect and the fishermen were pre-sync'd inside every carp brain. That best case is really not a whole lot considering the current goal is 6,000,000 lbs per year by the then-commercial-who-lost-his-business-so-now-he-has-a-government-contract fellow.
Bottom line, IMO, is we can't afford a bounty per lb. big enough to do anything but subsidize the current kill rate. Is anyone going to target carp for $.10 per pound? Maybe some would, IDK.
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