Comments on: Fishing soon to be banned?

By: Veeshir

Veeshir — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:48:48 +0000

I don’t like fishing, mostly because I don’t eat fish and I can find other activities that involve drinking mass quantities of beer, but……

If any of this goes on I’m going to take it up. I’ll be the fishingest fool you’ll see.

They just don’t seem to realize we’re Americans, not EUnuchs.
There’s a point beyond which we won’t go.

By: JAMES

JAMES — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:49:05 +0000

pursuant to the Mack/Printz ruling Scalia warned, “The federal government may neither, issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program. Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.” It is rather obvious that nationalized healthcare definitely qualifies as a “federal regulatory program.” PLEASE PERFORM CITIZENS ARREST AGAINST ANY ILLEGAL AGENT WHO PERFORMS ANY ILLEGAL ENFORCEMENT

By: J. Strupp

J. Strupp — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:26:52 +0000

In reply to steveegg.

Applying strict bag limits and banning live bait and barbed hooks in a park is not even close to the same thing as banning fishing entirely. Not even in the same universe.

…and the bag limits aren’t even a big deal either. So bag limits in Ontario are one walleye over 18″ and 3 a man per day. Our party of 12 guys can limit out on 16 & 17″ walleyes in a morning with a couple pike mixed in there, pig out on shore lunch and then go out and do it again the next day and the next…..yeah so we can’t bring the same number of walleyes home with us anymore. Big freakin’ deal. So the ministry’s a pain in the a$$. That’s life. I can tell you that socialist Canada is a far cry from banning commercial and private fishing and so are we.

Ain’t gonna happen now or ever.

P.S. the 16 inchers taste better anyway. Keep a trophy, throw the rest over 18 back. If a guy can’t pull in enough 16-17 inch walleyes in Canada they should take up bowling or something.

By: steveegg

steveegg — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:09:46 +0000

In reply to J. Strupp.

When the ones writing policy have as their personal ultimate goal the elimination of recreational fishing, and the plan they’re poised to foist upon us tracks with the previously-announced intermediate steps, it is prudent to plan as though they’re going to make that ultimate goal happen.

Let me tell you a story about the state of fishing in Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park (just on the other side of the border of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, with the same ban on motorized boats). Back in the golden days (up until the late-1990s), the possession limit on walleye was 6, with one over 23″, and one could fish with any standard bait, including live leeches. Then, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources dropped the limit to 4 as part of a province-wide reduction, and at the same time, banned importation of leeches into the province. A few years after that, they dropped the “one over” size to 18″ (again, as part of a province-wide reduction). Now, they’ve banned all live bait in the park entirely, as well as lures with barbed hooks.

It’s been a few years since I’ve fished Quetico, but the fishing was still just as good the last year live bait was legal to use as my first year there, back in 1992. Moreover, given taking fish out of the park involves portaging, there’s not even a lot of trophy-taking. Further, entry into the park is limited to a quota-and-entry-point system that hasn’t really changed since the early 1990s. Despite the fact there is no commercial fishing in Quetico, and the apparent self-sustaining fish population, the MNR did everything short of banning fishing entirely in Quetico just because they could.

By: J. Strupp

J. Strupp — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:12:36 +0000

“It likely won’t happen all at once, but it will happen in bits and pieces, with the ultimate goal of no legal fishing happening if Obama stays in office the full two terms.”

So they’re gonna take my guns and my fishin’ rod too?

Classic.

You’re making The Onion proud with this gem.