Petition for single point hooks in trophy section

[Ryan Miloshewski]

3 hours ago, Smallie Seeker said:

I’ve caught browns that have obviously had multiple hooks in their jaw and none looked any worse for wear, so that’s what I assumed. 

I wonder what % of the petitioners own a boga? 🤔

Probably a very high percentage. And they take pics of fish on the gravel without a net or drag a brown in October across the lake to get a pic. 

[Ruger5555]

https://www.facebook.com/79399114157/posts/10159377376199158/

[Gavin]

20 years ago, we kept our mouths shut about jerkbait fishing for trout and especially what baits we were using. Somebody must have promoted it online and drawn attention to it.

[rps]

This same approach has been the trademark of certain groups, not named by me, for 40 years. In the name of "conservation", EXCLUDE all who choose to fish any way other than the pure, elite class way I choose to fish.

Do not get me wrong. I support circle hooks for bait fishing. I support requiring barbless hooks. I do not support regulations that reduce people to using expensive feathers only so they can have their own sandbox.

You want to "conserve?" Lobby for barbless catch and release. Otherwise, quit your class based moral high ground.

Phil, did you notice I did not use one word with **** ?

[Ham]

I'd be more in favor of enforcing existing laws BEFORE adding new ones. Way too much bait fishing goes on in catch and release areas. There just aren't enough agents to enforce the laws.

regulations should help guide our behavior so that we fish in a way that doesn't harm the resource.

TBH, the main I don't throw jerkbaits for trout more is  that it can be awful rough on the little ones, but to each his own.

[Johnsfolly]

Better yet, stop stocking trout in Taney. Use a mix of spillway and hypolimnetic release to regulate a warmer temp and focus on a walleye and white bass fishery.

[Ryan Miloshewski]

People need to come to terms that Taneycomo is Missouri's largest trout park. I love the lake to death, and I do my best to take care of any trophy fish I catch, but at the end of the day it's a stocked, non-native fishery. On top of that, it's a flood control body of water. Doesn't mean you have to treat fish poorly or the sport poorly, but it will always be a tailwater providing multiple ways to catch trout and other species. 

[DADAKOTA]

Bunch of swish stick elitists not wanting to share.  Anyone figured out how to use livescope on trophy trout? 

[tjm]

Now 22 hours old and got 50 supporters in the first 5 hours.

Not that I much care, but this is what happens when you set aside an area as "special", that specialness requires one more regulation after another to keep making it more special. If this area was not already made 'special' by "trophy" status (if it was considered as put and take stocked water) there would be no basis for making it more "special".  Trophy? nonnative, genetically manipulated, pen raised fish, should make a wonderful trophy, especially if a plastic "replica" is the "mount".   

[Ryan Miloshewski]

5 hours ago, DADAKOTA said:

Bunch of swish stick elitists not wanting to share.  Anyone figured out how to use livescope on trophy trout? 

I saw somebody comment on Facebook "if we get this into the regulations, how about we outlaw everybody 12 and over from fishing at the outlets?" Fantastic idea if I ever heard one!