Little Red Public Input
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My response:
Issues:
1) Inadequate variety in stocking locations resulting in bait fishing/taking clusters around stocking ramps (i.e. Winkley Shoals).
2) Lack of minimum flow.
3) Inadequate public access in the Jon’s Pocket peninsula.
4) Lack of walk-in access at Mossy Shoals C&R
5) Open ended C&R philosophy fundamentally flawed given scientific data of brown trout migratory browsing and feeding
6) Unclear personal property boundaries on borders of river.Advice:
1) Employ stocking rafts most of the time in order to stock rainbow trout.
I’m going to play devil’s advocate and defend the bait chunkers, just because that’s the ornery type of guy I am.
You said something about “chumming with corn has got to stop.”
Bd-
I think you’ll find that on this particular question Arkansans and Tennesseans are further apart than you’d believe.
I appreciate what you’re saying from an aesthetic sense, but from a macroeconomic point of view, the government is running something vaguely resembling a Kroger, in that revenue generation is the objective.
All our tailwater fisheries, Arkansas or Tennessee or whereever, are managed to “provide recreational opportunities” for as many people as possible.
Hey Brian-
I agree entirely with your economic assessment and the reasons for the Game and Fish put-and-take rules and I do agree that a component of the scheme should be based on the principles you list.
However I have to point out that the White River system really is a substantially different place than the waters you fish, including the Cumberland, which it most closely resembles.
On any given day on the 7-mile Norfork tailwater, which supports the highest concentration of fish per mile, you will definitely see more fly fishermen than bait fishermen.
I will always vote for less, but bigger fish.
Zach
I have mixed feelings about, probably because I’m such a generalist when it comes to fishing.
A lot of people approach fly fishing as a progressive exercise in specialization
That’s an astute observation, and it may be that right now I am just going through a big fish phase.
We don’t get many great opportunities for dry fly fishing here, but I have to admit that it sure is neat to cast to a rising fish and have it come up and sip the fly off the surface.
I’ve never caught a big fish on a dry, but if you could ever consistently get 24-inch trout to hit on the surface, I can see how it would be tough to go back to anything else.
I’ll never get to the point of “fly fishing is religion and dry fly fishing is high church,” but it’s a fun way to fish when conditions are right.
bd
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