01-12-2025, 10:59 PM
(01-12-2025, 04:09 PM)castnshoot Wrote: I don’t think they should have any official spearing records.
IMO
I agree about the spearing 100%. It is not angling, it is hunting. We are not allowed to snag, we must present our offering and the fish must decide to take it. Mot so with spearing, spearing is hunting. It should have a separate additional license required and a whole set of laws governing it, in particular laws against perusing during the spawn except species they intentionally are trying to decrease populations of.
If this fish had been caught in a tributary of Utah lake on the date it was, it would have had to have been released.
It is a beautiful pre-spawn female filled with thousands of eggs that never saw the waters of Deer Creek and never had a chance to become one of the most sought after fish in the lake.
All for a certificate and a photo.