What Do You Think

[Chief Grey Bear]

This topic is about adopting stricter regulations for the harvest of brown trout. It would actually save money and improve the fishery. Just change the rules....no additional management or expense required. It is quite clear and quite simple.

Let's not steer this into another tired debate regarding the merits of stocking trout Missouri. We have been over that enough.

What is quite clear and simple is a small few that want regulations to fit their needs and not the MDC management plan or those of the vast fishing majority. That is the same tired debate you have been conducting here for four pages. You might want to check with the MSA on how well they did in trying to force their self satisfying stricter regulations upon the fishing public of this great state.

[FishinCricket]

What is quite clear and simple is a small few that want regulations to fit their needs and not the MDC management plan or those of the vast fishing majority. That is the same tired debate you have been conducting here for four pages. You might want to check with the MSA on how well they did in trying to force their self satisfying stricter regulations upon the fishing public of this great state.

Aaaand.... BOOM goes the dynamite!

lol

[Wayne SW/MO]

Snagged fish? I have seen lots of folks do that at montauk, especially with white jigs.

Yup.

[Gavin]

Good Grief....Chief Pessimism has come by late to deficate...Getting old Chief...What are you for anyway?

[Flysmallie]

Chief Pessimism has come by late to deficate.

[Phil Lilley]

There's more to this than just growing bigger browns. I mean the management plan would have to change. I would think they would stock less browns if they're allowed to grow larger. Larger browns eat more food and they would start eating more rainbows. They have to balance it all out.

If there is a trout park mission statement, I'd like to see it. I'd like to see what MDC objectives are. I bet they wouldn't include growing trophy-size trout like browns... not specifically.

[Phil Lilley]

And Chief has a point, although he put it in his roughest, directest pen.

Don't most ppl who fish at parks fish there because it's easy to fish, easy to catch a fish, not as challenging as a stream or even a lake. I may be opening a whole new smelly can of worms here... I don't do parks.... heck I hardly do anything except Taney... so I'm ignorant to exactly who fishes these parks.

But if the group who want larger browns is small- a small minority- that needs to be taken into consideration. And I bet it is... small.

[Flysmallie]

And Chief has a point, although he put it in his roughest, directest pen.

That's his way. He's very passionate about what he believes, no one should fault him for that.

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[Chief Grey Bear]

Good Grief....Chief Pessimism has come by late to deficate...Getting old Chief...What are you for anyway?

We are talking about a put and take non-native fish. They put them in so people can take them out. Are we now trying to create a world class non-native brown trout fishery???? You want bigger browns, fish smarter. They are there.

I'll tell you what is getting old, the very few trying to control the very many.