05-15-2013, 02:26 PM
Agree. Not to pile onto good friend LOAH, but one could argue that people are going to steal anyway, drive drunk anyway, murder anyway... So why have laws that prohibit such things?
The reason - obviously - is enforcement. If it isn't illegal, you can't stop people from doing it or cite them if they do. If it were legal to use minnows that came from the reservoir you're fishing, and a warden checks somebody using minnows, how can the warden tell that the minnows came from there or not? The fisherman might -- gasp! -- be lying.
And from that one bucket emptied at the end of the day, we get chubs in a new lake. Or carp.
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The reason - obviously - is enforcement. If it isn't illegal, you can't stop people from doing it or cite them if they do. If it were legal to use minnows that came from the reservoir you're fishing, and a warden checks somebody using minnows, how can the warden tell that the minnows came from there or not? The fisherman might -- gasp! -- be lying.
And from that one bucket emptied at the end of the day, we get chubs in a new lake. Or carp.
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