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Fisheries Management: The search for quality.

"Quality of fishing experience" means a lot of different things to a
lot of different people. A kid fishing for bullheads in the farm pond
is having a quality experience, while the average flyfisherman would
not consider that a quality experience.

What is a quality experience to you?

Rate the following 1-10 where 1 means "not important to me" and 10
means "most important to me"

Fishing involves access to large numbers of eager and aggressive large
trout for catch and release fun.
Fishing is in relative solitude
Fishing is amidst interesting or beautiful scenery
Fishing allows you to keep a few decent fish for dinner
Fish caught are not visibly scarred from previous human encounters
Fish caught are free from disease
Fish caught are safe to eat and free from dangerous chemicals
Fish caught have firm colored tasty flesh
Fish caught are appropriate for the area and do not threaten the
ecosystem of that area
Fish can be caught using lures in addition to flies

Halfordian Golfer

Fisheries Management: The search for quality.

On Mar 13, 8:55 am, Halfordian Golfer wrote:
"Quality of fishing experience" means a lot of different things to a
lot of different people. A kid fishing for bullheads in the farm pond
is having a quality experience, while the average flyfisherman would
not consider that a quality experience.

What is a quality experience to you?

Rate the following 1-10 where 1 means "not important to me" and 10
means "most important to me"

Fishing involves access to large numbers of eager and aggressive large
trout for catch and release fun.
1

Fishing is in relative solitude
10

Fishing is amidst interesting or beautiful scenery
9

Fishing allows you to keep a few decent fish for dinner
10

Fish caught are not visibly scarred from previous human encounters
9

Fish caught are free from disease
10

Fish caught are safe to eat and free from dangerous chemicals
10

Fish caught have firm colored tasty flesh
10

Fish caught are appropriate for the area and do not threaten the
ecosystem of that area
10

Fish can be caught using lures in addition to flies
8

Fisheries Management: The search for quality.

Since about half of these rate as not important at all, I'm assuming
that this is a 1-10 rating, not ranking:

Rate the following 1-10 where 1 means "not important to me" and 10
means "most important to me"

Fishing involves access to large numbers of eager and aggressive large
trout for catch and release fun.
2

Fishing is in relative solitude
5

Fishing is amidst interesting or beautiful scenery
4

Fishing allows you to keep a few decent fish for dinner
1

Fish caught are not visibly scarred from previous human encounters
1

Fish caught are free from disease
7

Fish caught are safe to eat and free from dangerous chemicals
1

Fish caught have firm colored tasty flesh
1

Fish caught are appropriate for the area and do not threaten the
ecosystem of that area
7

Fish can be caught using lures in addition to flies
1

Fisheries Management: The search for quality.

On Mar 13, 10:19 am, redietz wrote:
Since about half of these rate as not important at all, I'm assuming
that this is a 1-10 rating, not ranking:

Rate the following 1-10 where 1 means "not important to me" and 10
means "most important to me"

Fishing involves access to large numbers of eager and aggressive large
trout for catch and release fun.

2

Fishing is in relative solitude

5

Fishing is amidst interesting or beautiful scenery

4

Fishing allows you to keep a few decent fish for dinner

1

Fish caught are not visibly scarred from previous human encounters

1

Fish caught are free from disease

7

Fish caught are safe to eat and free from dangerous chemicals

1

Fish caught have firm colored tasty flesh

1

Fish caught are appropriate for the area and do not threaten the
ecosystem of that area

7

Fish can be caught using lures in addition to flies

1

Appreciate this. Do you have any qualitative questions to ask? Is
there something that you consider essential to the quality to the
experience?

TBone

Fisheries Management: The search for quality.

Congratulations
It seems that this group is going
esp as an alternative or in addition to or as an addendum to ROFF

Tim - Thanks for your efforts
Pls Let me know if I can help

Sincerely
Fred

Fisheries Management: The search for quality.

On Mar 14, 3:35 pm, wrote:
Congratulations
It seems that this group is going
esp as an alternative or in addition to or as an addendum to ROFF

Tim - Thanks for your efforts
Pls Let me know if I can help

Sincerely
Fred

Hi Fred,

I appreciate this very much. Thank you. What you can do to help is to
post interesting and thought provoking news from your neck of the
woods, jot a TR when you go, contribute to the discussions as they're
asked, etc.

The number one thing is to never rise to an obvious troll and keep it
on topic.

Your pal,

Halfordian Golfer

Fisheries Management: The search for quality.

On Mar 13, 3:55 pm, Halfordian Golfer wrote:
"Quality of fishing experience" means a lot of different things to a
lot of different people. A kid fishing for bullheads in the farm pond
is having a quality experience, while the average flyfisherman would
not consider that a quality experience.

What is a quality experience to you?

Rate the following 1-10 where 1 means "not important to me" and 10
means "most important to me"

Fishing involves access to large numbers of eager and aggressive large
trout for catch and release fun.
Fishing is in relative solitude
Fishing is amidst interesting or beautiful scenery
Fishing allows you to keep a few decent fish for dinner
Fish caught are not visibly scarred from previous human encounters
Fish caught are free from disease
Fish caught are safe to eat and free from dangerous chemicals
Fish caught have firm colored tasty flesh
Fish caught are appropriate for the area and do not threaten the
ecosystem of that area
Fish can be caught using lures in addition to flies

Halfordian Golfer

Actually, I think fishing for anything at all, under practically any
circumstances, can be a "quality" experience, but the individual
perception of such varies widely. Mine does not actually vary much as
far as I can determine, although some things may enhance it. If I am
fishing, ( and not only fly-fishing) I am already enjoying a "quality"
experience per se.

Can´t think of a way to objectively ( or even subjectively for that
matter) "rate" various aspects of such an experience. I might prefer
some aspects or conditions to others, especially on a "theoretical"
level, and "beforehand" as it were, but when I am actually fishing, I
tend to lose myself in it, and many things are then largely
unimportant, or not even noticeable.

When fishing for minnows etc, ( equates to your "farm pond bullhead"
analogy), then I am basically a small absorbed boy again, and my
perceptions are the same as those of that small boy. In point of fact,
this applies to practically any fishing experience for me.

There are a few things I don´t like, and would not normally engage in.
I don´t like crowds, I prefer to fish alone, I don´t fish for stocked
fish, and I don´t fish catch and release waters. I don´t much like
areas which bear the heavy scars of human intervention, but other
places are hard to find nowadays, ( for me at least!).

This also basically comes down to the age old question, "Why do you
fish?". For me at least, it´s just something I have to do.

TL
MC