Shuffling / Night Light Fishing

[jOrOb]

While I don't know whether shuffling does greater damage than wading, I do know that in Arkansas we have a no chumming law. It is illegal to chum, which includes shuffling. I am told that the law was written to stop guides from creating a "corn hatch". The shuffling thing was simply an act of wording, not the spirit of the law.

Shuffling probably does very little damage greater than wading in general. My opinion has always been that if we stop the shufflers, they will stop us from wading as well, and then no one will get to fish. What frustrates me is when you walk down to find them shoulder to shoulder from bank to bank (they were 5 wide last time) doing some kind of electric slide thing (that is line dancing soul style) back and forth.

I think it is a given that when the water comes up, gravel washes down. That is why the gravel bars move.

[gonefishin]

jOrOb: Excellent points. Especially the one about shuffling being inadverently outlawed byt the wording of the law not the spirit of the law. I have made the point several times that by making a law against shuffling one could be opening a pandoras box that could be used to outlaw wade fishing all together.