TLA - You lifted a quote about Poinsett and applied it to Thompson
Close but no cigar. I lifeted the quote but my point was about the GFP. From slough to premier walleye, northen, perch and smallies in 25 years. The recreation are is damn nice, the fishing is good. What more does anyone want from them.
Politician? Never happen. I don't always say things the way I'd normally say them. Lol, if I did I'd have to ban me. Bait babe and Bo would be mad at me and it is a family forum. Somedays it takes me an hour to rewrite what I'm saying so it will fit within the rules that apply to all of us.
Uh, and where did all those fish in Thompson come from. You don't really suppose that all the rain had something to do with providing new and bettter spawning and the lack of precipitation for the last few years lowered the lake levels and spawning areas for some species.
When you can make the GFP responsible for the weather I'll build them a church and we can all go worship there. Uh, when people say the smallies ruined perch fishing they should also have some proof. Catching less perch isn't proof that smallies caused it. More walleyes and northerns could also be a cause.
Go look at test net results and you can make a corelation between low water and poor spawning years. That is unless you are saying that the smallies just ate all the young that year or perhaps the GFP set the test nets two feet out of the water. Looking at test net results you can also predict which lakes are going to have some damn good fishing in a couple of years.
Almost everything everyone says is an opinion. Whether on here or in real life. Seldom are facts brought into play to back up anyones opinion. Then people use faulty logic to prove their opinin and then try to bully others into agreeing with it. Without the facts, footnotes, proof and refrences it's all opionion.
Nothing wrong with improving fishing at all. Problem is to define what's causing the poor fishing. Water levels are a major problem and not much can be done about them. It snows and rains it the right places or it doesn't. Global climate change isn't helping much either. What y'all driving? Never occured to many that fishing could be getting worse because it's getting warmer and the water levels are lower.
I'm betting if you ask any GFP person if hey would love to see fishing be better in every lake in SD none of them would say no. They do what they can do with the information they have but they can't control the weather and the precip. They do what they can but they can't do everything and aren't responsible for everything. If they could we'd all be able to catch limits of huge fish and we'd all be happy.
The point is no one controls everything so things go up and down. Cycles in a lake are normal and natural. We might not like them but we also have litle power to change them. Water evels have more to do with fishing than the GFP ever will.
Heh, I have a bigger problem with almost every states deer management than I do with their fish management. Up the deer tags so that a million of them aren't killed by vehicles every year. That's a waste of a great resource and better management would help stop that. Yet the dogooders don't want Bambi killed by a hunter so they come out en masse to complain, protest and write letters so that everyone can have an opportunity to kill a deer with their vehicle instead.
There are always at least three sides to every issue, yours, mine and the facts.
As for improving the fishery I'd say iot has improved a ton over 40 years ago. Fishermen have multiplied much faster than fish have yet we still catch a lot of fish. There are enough lakes in the state to provide many different types of fishing, including muskies, smallies and other fish. Large predators are also a control mechanism and a 40# musky is going to be one hell of a lot of fun to catch.
We are a diverse people and we need a diverse fishery, for everyone, not just those who want to catch perch and walleyes. I never caught a smallie until I fished Thompson. Now I like catching them. They fight really well. Better than a walleye or northern. If you want more fish then do what I do, catch them and then release them.
Lol, we all want the same thing, we all just have different opinions on how to get there. That's not a bad thing.
