02-03-2015, 12:32 AM
I agree with you on opening the floodgates to any schmuck who would take home truckloads of illegally taken fish. I guess I'm thinking along the lines of individuals or groups working in cooperation with the DWR; volunteers getting hours for their dedicated hunter permits, sportsman's groups, biology students, scout troops, etc. People who have a vested interest in protecting/preserving the resources and fishery balances we have in the state. These groups could be briefly trained by DWR and tabs could be kept on them by DWR.
I remember as a college student going on a fish shocking/counting field trip to Hobble Creek with a DWR biologist. That was an amazing experience. That equipment could probably be used in UL's tributaries to remove pike. It wouldn't work in the main body of water, but it would be a drop in the bucket....which is all we have anyway...short of killing off UL entirely and restocking with the sacrosanct native cutthroat and june sucker.
That's just my rambling thoughts out loud and probably proof as to why I'm not a DWR biologist. Besides if the pike population takes hold I know where i'll be headed with some crankbaits!
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I remember as a college student going on a fish shocking/counting field trip to Hobble Creek with a DWR biologist. That was an amazing experience. That equipment could probably be used in UL's tributaries to remove pike. It wouldn't work in the main body of water, but it would be a drop in the bucket....which is all we have anyway...short of killing off UL entirely and restocking with the sacrosanct native cutthroat and june sucker.
That's just my rambling thoughts out loud and probably proof as to why I'm not a DWR biologist. Besides if the pike population takes hold I know where i'll be headed with some crankbaits!
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