08-19-2013, 10:06 PM
[#0000FF]As you have been advised, it is not legal. Even though there is no limit on them...and up until this year we needed to "thin the herd"...they are still listed as a "protected" species.
Saw a guy get busted at Lindon two years ago for keeping some small whities along with some chub minnows he caught in a trap. I talked to the CO and he agreed that they should be available for mass harvest. But when I presented that at a RAC meeting it was tabled and never got to the review stage. Ditto for allowing the use of corn as bait for carp in Utah Lake. The mere mention of corn in Utah sends DWR folks into seizures. All kinds of things that "MIGHT" happen once they lower the barrier even a teensy bit.
No good reason for it. It's just policy.
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Saw a guy get busted at Lindon two years ago for keeping some small whities along with some chub minnows he caught in a trap. I talked to the CO and he agreed that they should be available for mass harvest. But when I presented that at a RAC meeting it was tabled and never got to the review stage. Ditto for allowing the use of corn as bait for carp in Utah Lake. The mere mention of corn in Utah sends DWR folks into seizures. All kinds of things that "MIGHT" happen once they lower the barrier even a teensy bit.
No good reason for it. It's just policy.
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