"SimRacer" -spam wrote in message
news

"RGarri7470" wrote in message
...
I read or saw some info
released last year on sight fishing (aka bed fishing) and how there was
currently no proof that it affected overall bass numbers when

I wrote an article for Outdoor Frontiers with my thoughts on bed
fishing.
I
don't think it affects bass reproduction - here in the south,
especially.
But
I don't do it much - most of the lakes I fish are too stained, and I
don't
have
the patience.
Ronnie

http://fishing.about.com

Thanks Ronnie, I will see if I can dig it up. I just don't buy into the
theory that hunting or fishing, associated with some selected and
controlled
harvestation hurts an animal population. Actually, I think it helps. Too
good in some cases: How many dead white tail dear have you seen by the
road
the past few years? I've hit two in the past 5 years myself.
snip


Selective harvest is the only way. Left to themselves, deer would outnumber
NewJerseyites pretty fast. At the turn of the century (1900), whitetails
were nearly extinct in NH from market hunting (hides to England IIRC) and
the turkeys were gone.

Eric Ryder
Hunter & fisherman