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Topic subjectRE: Declaring Clear Lake Hitch Threatened or Endangered
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12126, RE: Declaring Clear Lake Hitch Threatened or Endangered
Posted by swimbait, Wed Dec-12-12 11:11 AM
Thx for taking time to chime in.

A lot of the posts I'm reading wantto paint this as a black and white issue around eliminating all fishing.

I really don't think that's the discussion. Jeff Miller is the CBD staff member pushing the issue. He's the same person who we worked with on the Shadow Cliffs back ponds issue (Hi Jeff).

If the end-game was to ban all fishing, Jeff would have fought to prevent catch and release fishing in the back ponds. He didn't fight it. In fact he seemed quite fine with it and the back ponds were reopened with no opposition from anyone.

For the bass fishermen engaging on this issue, the discussion they should be having is around what CBD's disposition is to bass-related mitigations. Do they really want to go after it? As something that's probably low value and high risk/effort to their cause, is it worth it?