03-22-2013, 08:52 PM
[quote flygoddess]Maybe you are right Jeremy, maybe they did plan on this but the Internet played in big time here, you can read that. I wonder if they planned on that.[/quote]
[cool][#0000FF]There are doubtless some anglers who are showing up down there after reading the reports. But I promise you that the vast majority of the happy harvesters are there because of their own "network" and not because of anything they saw online. I strongly suspect that most of them are not even plugged in to the WWW.
And the flip side is that a lot of us walleye huggers are deliberately avoiding the place...just BECAUSE of all the publicity. Myself, I enjoy fishing for the esthetics. Or, as I put it, I fish for enjoyment, not endurance. The stress of combat fishing and witnessing the illegal harvest of a favorite species would definitely put a damper on the enjoys.
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[cool][#0000FF]There are doubtless some anglers who are showing up down there after reading the reports. But I promise you that the vast majority of the happy harvesters are there because of their own "network" and not because of anything they saw online. I strongly suspect that most of them are not even plugged in to the WWW.
And the flip side is that a lot of us walleye huggers are deliberately avoiding the place...just BECAUSE of all the publicity. Myself, I enjoy fishing for the esthetics. Or, as I put it, I fish for enjoyment, not endurance. The stress of combat fishing and witnessing the illegal harvest of a favorite species would definitely put a damper on the enjoys.
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