"Willi" wrote in message
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If it "prevents few of them from fishing", what is the purpose of the
regulation?

Willi


The few that it does prevent are those that follow the stocking truck and
take most of the fish out of the stream by the end of October or whenever it
arrives. Then the catch-and-release folks (a different market niche) make
multiple trips to the stream over the next 6 - 8 months. Overall result is a
good experience for fly fishermen in the winter and spring, and a good
experience for everybody else in summer and fall. More fishermen, more
tackle, more licenses.

Now, there's another argument, from a totally different perspective: the
stocking truck as a rural supplement to food stamps. But that's for another
time and place.

Bob