Fishing regulations are considered by the Fish and Game Commission on a two-year cycle during odd-numbered years. The deadline for submitting proposals this year was August 3. Your proposal is being forwarded to the Department's Reservoir Management Program for review and analysis. One of the biologists in that program will respond to you directly.

James Hopelain

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So basically nothing will happen until sometime after August 2005 at the earliest. Which admittedly sucks. But I'm going to keep plugging away. The guy James cc'd Dennis Lee who Fish Chris knows and another guy Walt Beer. It will be interesting to talk to these guys.

If anything I am going to learn from this what is involved in pushing for regulation changes and what the odds are that things can actually change.

The DFG's Mission Statement is:

"The Mission of the Department of Fish and Game is to manage California's diverse fish, wildlife, and plant resources, and the habitats upon which they depend, for their ecological values and for their use and enjoyment by the public."

I sure enjoy catching big bass and releasing them. And I'm defnitely part of the public. So call me optimistic, but maybe there is hope for this.