09-20-2006, 01:10 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Yeah, I was happy with the results. The only dissenters seemed to be one RAC board member who was completely unfamiliar with Yuba...but was set straight (grudgingly) by the biologist for Yuba. The couple of audience members who spoke against lifting the perch ban were also guys who have not fished Yuba and were simply sentimental about having the perch ban lifted before their beloved walleyes had a good return. In talking with one of them, he seemed to blame the perch for the slow return of the walleye...but he had not fished the lake since he participated in the structure program two years ago. He had no clue about how prolific the perch were. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Glad we had a good BFT showing there. I rode down with GEEZER, who also said his piece in support of new perch regs on Yuba. Met up with tlspyder13 there and he sat with us. Good to see Ocean, Mrs. Ocean and the Ocean sprouts there too. I was wondering how many other BFTers or lurkers were there. I had a couple of folks note the BFT shirt I was wearing and come up to me to compliment us on the great site we have.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As Cat_Man stated, it is now up to RAC to present their recommendations to the board and for the board to implement them. It looks pretty solid for the perch ban to be lifted on the 2007 proclamation. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Oh, by the way, one of the things that was emphasized last night is the DWR effort to make the regulations easier to read and understand and to make them more "user friendly". Toward that end the Proclamation will henceforth be called the "Fishing Guide". [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]On another note, they mentioned that Grantsville Reservoir has a confirmed population of illegally introduced smallmouth. They are making a special note in the new Fishing Guide that there is a mandatory kill on all bass caught from Grantsville...and no limit. They also said that their new policies are going to be that they will not manage any fishery for an illegally introduced species.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]But...when I mentioned this, and suggested either a higher limit (or no limit) for perch in the fisheries where they had been illegally introduced, it didn't get much reaction. Part of my official recommendations were to increase the limit of perch at Starvation to 50 fish. That did not even go to a vote. Not sure if it was because Starvation is in another district. We need to work on that.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Glad we had a good BFT showing there. I rode down with GEEZER, who also said his piece in support of new perch regs on Yuba. Met up with tlspyder13 there and he sat with us. Good to see Ocean, Mrs. Ocean and the Ocean sprouts there too. I was wondering how many other BFTers or lurkers were there. I had a couple of folks note the BFT shirt I was wearing and come up to me to compliment us on the great site we have.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As Cat_Man stated, it is now up to RAC to present their recommendations to the board and for the board to implement them. It looks pretty solid for the perch ban to be lifted on the 2007 proclamation. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Oh, by the way, one of the things that was emphasized last night is the DWR effort to make the regulations easier to read and understand and to make them more "user friendly". Toward that end the Proclamation will henceforth be called the "Fishing Guide". [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]On another note, they mentioned that Grantsville Reservoir has a confirmed population of illegally introduced smallmouth. They are making a special note in the new Fishing Guide that there is a mandatory kill on all bass caught from Grantsville...and no limit. They also said that their new policies are going to be that they will not manage any fishery for an illegally introduced species.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]But...when I mentioned this, and suggested either a higher limit (or no limit) for perch in the fisheries where they had been illegally introduced, it didn't get much reaction. Part of my official recommendations were to increase the limit of perch at Starvation to 50 fish. That did not even go to a vote. Not sure if it was because Starvation is in another district. We need to work on that.[/#0000ff]
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