08-08-2024, 02:15 AM
Djhill16,
I appreciate the offer, but my question was for the UDWR folks and hoping they would chime-in with why they don't post the reasoning along with the proposed changes. It would make things a lot easier for the public to try to understand the reason behind the proposed changes. However, the 6 rod thing just makes no sense to me...given the reason you said, "limits are not dictated by the number of rods you use, but by the regulations". Using that same rationale, then why not just have unlimited numbers or rods permitted at all Utah waters? The UDWR was hell-bent, for many years, on making fishing regulations as simple as possible since there was a time when it seemed as if every water had its own special regulations. I even tried to get the Bear Lake regulations simplified and I had input to several other waters around northern Utah too in my 31 years with UDWR. The Fishing Guide (formerly called proclamation) has a lot less special regulations now, but I think it could still be vastly simplified. Permitting 6 rods on a few waters is once again making things more heavy for special regulations. On top of that, it makes law enforcement more complicated too since they will need to check for names/addresses on every rod, and try to equate who's rods belong to who. Especially, when maybe a father has a few kids with 6 rods each? Anyway, if you are capable of controlling 6 rods, you're a better fisherman than me.
I appreciate the offer, but my question was for the UDWR folks and hoping they would chime-in with why they don't post the reasoning along with the proposed changes. It would make things a lot easier for the public to try to understand the reason behind the proposed changes. However, the 6 rod thing just makes no sense to me...given the reason you said, "limits are not dictated by the number of rods you use, but by the regulations". Using that same rationale, then why not just have unlimited numbers or rods permitted at all Utah waters? The UDWR was hell-bent, for many years, on making fishing regulations as simple as possible since there was a time when it seemed as if every water had its own special regulations. I even tried to get the Bear Lake regulations simplified and I had input to several other waters around northern Utah too in my 31 years with UDWR. The Fishing Guide (formerly called proclamation) has a lot less special regulations now, but I think it could still be vastly simplified. Permitting 6 rods on a few waters is once again making things more heavy for special regulations. On top of that, it makes law enforcement more complicated too since they will need to check for names/addresses on every rod, and try to equate who's rods belong to who. Especially, when maybe a father has a few kids with 6 rods each? Anyway, if you are capable of controlling 6 rods, you're a better fisherman than me.
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