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Originally Posted by reds
There is a very, very large contingent of recreational fisherman who don't want to see the spring season bothered. And I don't mean charter people.
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Reds - The ball started rolling against the rec angler when DNR put in the PSCR restrictions. Most of us have been predicting that those restrictions would find their way into the Trophy season, especially since so few people showed up to fight the DNR and their total lack of scientific data to support the proposed PSCR restrictions. DNR only looked into the whole PSCR issue because of complaints about increased effort. The next shoe to fall will be an attempt to decrease a perceived 'increase in effort' by trollers using 'too many rods' in their spreads. DNR reacts to complaints and the complaints starting to show up in the DNR inbox is that trollers are the problem because they use too many rods. As mentioned by Greg, DNR is starting to collect the data now. They will massage this data, just like they do with the MRFSS data, to support their next proposal. History is getting ready to repeat itself. I hope that 'large contingent' you refer to will be willing to sacrifice a little of their precious time and show up at some DNR meetings....Don