[Eric DeWitt]

The 70-200/2.8 is a GREAT lens.

[Eric DeWitt]

Why would you HAVE to pay the upgrade fee?

[Eric DeWitt]

Shoot.

[Eric DeWitt]

Does Hubbard ever smile for fish pics??

[Eric DeWitt]

The 7D still does a lot of things that the 50D doesn’t not even considering the video… the ergo’s are way better on it, and the AF system is a whole new design when compared to the 50.

[Eric DeWitt]

If money isn’t an issue between them, and you want to stay with the 1.6 format body, 7d all the way – huge improvements in the AF system, camera controls, not to mention HD video.

[Eric DeWitt]

Great work Corey.

[Eric DeWitt]

The Islander.  

[Eric DeWitt]

I think you mean the Holy Water.

[Eric DeWitt]

Note to self:

[Eric DeWitt]

Tim – good suggestion, and it was something i have been thinking about, in fact almost all my rods except this 8 wt are over-lined by at least one size.

[Eric DeWitt]

And, what about the lines?

[Eric DeWitt]

Thanks doug.

[Eric DeWitt]

Hey Cory – i didn’t get the 100mm yet, but its on the list, along with a few other nice pieces of glass.

[Eric DeWitt]

Interesting idea.  

Google the Pitman-Robertson Act.  That was the answer to this type of problem for wild game, i’m not sure that specific law covers fish though.  Maybe something similar to that for fisheries could be implemented?

http://www.nraila.net/issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=103

I would like to see the numbers on fines as to how much revenue is actually generated by them every year.  My guess is its not that much in comparison to the overall revenues generated by license sales.  I’m not sure of the idea of providing such a large incentive on writing fines.  Seems like you would probably find a dozen other petty things to fine besides fishing without a $10 piece of paper like you mentioned to generate revenue.  Besides that – there are so many more positions at any DNR agency than just the enforcement officers… it would take alot of fines to support all of them.  

Another potential snag to tying it to a sales tax is that then those monies would be subject to budget cuts, and all the other problems that we have with state government spending – think schools, roads, etc.  I believe, at least in michigan, it is illegal to divert any funds raised by license sales, fees, etc. to anything other than the DNR budgets – ie. they can’t use license funds to build a new highway.  

We have the same issue here in michigan where there is huge money being spent on stocking programs that support a kill fishery, as well as the HUGE charter boat industry.  We also have the same problem with deer hunting – the regs are in direct contradiction to the soundest management practices that produce quality trophies, but most one weekend warriors aren’t looking for a trophy, just anything with horns.  So, just like fishing, we get reduced down to a lowest common denominator.  

I think the best way to provide these types of changes is to institute a perspective shift at the upper levels of the DNR/management angieces.. and that is probably a really tough thing to do.

[Eric DeWitt]

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/index/index-display.jsp?id=cat20752&navAction=jump&navCount=1&cmCat=MainCatcat602006&parentType=category&parentId=cat602006

Phil, if you can’t find any decent refurb’s, take a look thru cabelas – Nikon, Leupold/Windriver, and even the Cabelas (they are more than likely made private label by one of the big guys anyway) brand are great choices.

[Eric DeWitt]

You’ve got some great answers already to your questions.

[Eric DeWitt]

Nice work, looking forward to seeing some more… stop being so lazy!!

[Eric DeWitt]

Great suggestions guys… the current front runners are Drake and Fin, although my 3 year old is convinced Horseshoe and Buddy would make great names!

[Eric DeWitt]

There are some good ones that i like so far… Winston, Flip (although that one seems hard to say when calling the name), Sage

A couple other ones – Fin, Simba (lion).

We’ll have to see what he looks like tonight when we get home.

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