03-22-2013, 06:40 PM
[quote TubeDude][cool][#0000ff]There are some of us who are opposed to snagging, and opening up that inlet area to the wholesale snagging that goes on there. But the initial input from DWR officers is that they are not seeing the snagging and they label us concerned anglers as "purists". What does that tell you?
It is a discretionary call for the COs. If they witness a snagged fish being kept, they CAN write a ticket. They must witness it however. In times past I saw them give a guy a snagging ticket for a legally caught fish...just because it had a snag mark on it from someone else. When I spoke up in his defense I was told to stay out of it or I would get a ticket also.
The Utah Lake tributaries were closed and kept closed many years ago. And it was not so much to protect the walleyes as to reduce the illegal practices of snagging and overlimits. Neither Willard Bay nor Utah Lake is in any danger of losing its stock of walleyes because of angler harvest...legal or otherwise. But it is fundamentally wrong to open it up to the crowd that treats it as their own personal free fish market.
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Your statement: "[#0000ff]Neither Willard Bay nor Utah Lake is in any danger of losing its stock of walleyes because of angler harvest...legal or otherwise." [/#0000ff][#000000]If these snagging clowns harvest enough of those big spawning females the effect will be felt for along time. That is why they shut down all the little streams and creeks for the slimers to spawn, they should do the same for the Walleye. Just close the inlet again and all will be fine.[/#000000]
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[#000000]I know alot of these guys are keeping more than a limit as well. Just because you take a skunk home most of the time does not mean you can make up for it when the pickings are easy. Anyone who witnesses an illegal act should get a license plate # and turn them in.[/#000000]
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It is a discretionary call for the COs. If they witness a snagged fish being kept, they CAN write a ticket. They must witness it however. In times past I saw them give a guy a snagging ticket for a legally caught fish...just because it had a snag mark on it from someone else. When I spoke up in his defense I was told to stay out of it or I would get a ticket also.
The Utah Lake tributaries were closed and kept closed many years ago. And it was not so much to protect the walleyes as to reduce the illegal practices of snagging and overlimits. Neither Willard Bay nor Utah Lake is in any danger of losing its stock of walleyes because of angler harvest...legal or otherwise. But it is fundamentally wrong to open it up to the crowd that treats it as their own personal free fish market.
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Your statement: "[#0000ff]Neither Willard Bay nor Utah Lake is in any danger of losing its stock of walleyes because of angler harvest...legal or otherwise." [/#0000ff][#000000]If these snagging clowns harvest enough of those big spawning females the effect will be felt for along time. That is why they shut down all the little streams and creeks for the slimers to spawn, they should do the same for the Walleye. Just close the inlet again and all will be fine.[/#000000]
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[#000000]I know alot of these guys are keeping more than a limit as well. Just because you take a skunk home most of the time does not mean you can make up for it when the pickings are easy. Anyone who witnesses an illegal act should get a license plate # and turn them in.[/#000000]
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