On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 19:25:43 -0700, Willi wrote:



Larry L wrote:


nothing seems to increase fishing pressure as much as 'special regs,' I
recently mentioned to a fly shop owning buddy that a certain local spot has
hatches good enough that with FF only C&R regs the fish might get big enough
and smart enough to make it really great .. his reply?. " I hope it never
happens, you wouldn't be able to find a place to park because of all the Bay
Area guys that would be there if the regs were changed." .... he has a point


Same thing I see in Colorado. When I brought that up here a couple of
years ago, people from back East thought I was nuts. I don't know if
things have changed, but according to what they said, special regs
waters back East have fewer anglers.

Willi




The Ontario fishing community has a definite meat mentality so you
immediately cut out a huge swath of the angling public when you go
C&R. Only a very tiny portion of Ontario's water is C&R so it isn't
much of a blip on the collective minds of our anglers. The only
rumbling I've heard was the introduction of C&R into some steelhead
and smallie water on the Grand. The meat fishing locals are blaming
the fly fishers for that one but it was actually the GRCA and MNR with
the "Heritage Waters" status of the Grand. I wasn't aware of any
politicking for expanding C&R by fly fishers but some of the fly shop
owners might have been involved. The smallie population has been in a
serious decline of late so the C&R regs will help it to rebound.
Should be really nice in about five years.

Peter

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