10-03-2009, 02:06 AM
Many areas are affected by the big secret.
Every year many of our state's hottest fishing locations are lost due to the big secret.
I have noticed every year I see fewer anglers on the water. Now is that because of the old timers dying off? Or no one is sharing their fishing locations with their friends? Or is it because of the economics of the situation? It’s really hard to say, but the affect regardless to the reason is the same. When people stop coming to certain locations, less money is allocated to those sites. Which means less fish stockings, less pheasant stockings, less wild life management.
This goes on and on in this downward spiral till the state feels that there is no longer a demand for those sites to remain open any more or the economics from the lack of park sticker sales when finally the park or felicity is shut down or sold off.
I can say this first hand, more than half of my secret fishing spots are now closed, sold off, or no longer managed.
Now every one here knows that there’s really no secret to fishing holes any more. There hasn’t been in 50 years. Some one knows every body of water that hasn’t become privatized. Only privatized ponds are secrets anymore. Any one sneaking to fish in to those with out permission from the landowners is not only trespassing but also engaged in the crime of theft.
Years ago there used to be plantings of salmon in the footesite dam region, but not any longer... One has to ask them selves why is this?
I know we touched on this subject last week, but that is really a part of a much larger problem. That is the loss of our natural recreational resources.
The reason I am reopening this under a new title is because I was sitting at camp yacking around the fire and every one was talking about the secret of this fishing spot being gone, because of everyone going home and telling about it on the internet.
I hadn’t the heart to tell them that my grandfather and uncle used to fish all over this area long before I was born.
More to point is, that if the secret is kept to well, there wont be anglers to fish these areas to keep them open in the future. Isnt that the real secret?
That is my opinion do you have one? What I mean is do you think keeping public fishing holes a secret aiding in the closing of public fishing sites?
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Every year many of our state's hottest fishing locations are lost due to the big secret.
I have noticed every year I see fewer anglers on the water. Now is that because of the old timers dying off? Or no one is sharing their fishing locations with their friends? Or is it because of the economics of the situation? It’s really hard to say, but the affect regardless to the reason is the same. When people stop coming to certain locations, less money is allocated to those sites. Which means less fish stockings, less pheasant stockings, less wild life management.
This goes on and on in this downward spiral till the state feels that there is no longer a demand for those sites to remain open any more or the economics from the lack of park sticker sales when finally the park or felicity is shut down or sold off.
I can say this first hand, more than half of my secret fishing spots are now closed, sold off, or no longer managed.
Now every one here knows that there’s really no secret to fishing holes any more. There hasn’t been in 50 years. Some one knows every body of water that hasn’t become privatized. Only privatized ponds are secrets anymore. Any one sneaking to fish in to those with out permission from the landowners is not only trespassing but also engaged in the crime of theft.
Years ago there used to be plantings of salmon in the footesite dam region, but not any longer... One has to ask them selves why is this?
I know we touched on this subject last week, but that is really a part of a much larger problem. That is the loss of our natural recreational resources.
The reason I am reopening this under a new title is because I was sitting at camp yacking around the fire and every one was talking about the secret of this fishing spot being gone, because of everyone going home and telling about it on the internet.
I hadn’t the heart to tell them that my grandfather and uncle used to fish all over this area long before I was born.
More to point is, that if the secret is kept to well, there wont be anglers to fish these areas to keep them open in the future. Isnt that the real secret?
That is my opinion do you have one? What I mean is do you think keeping public fishing holes a secret aiding in the closing of public fishing sites?
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