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Old 02-08-2010, 07:10 PM   #21
Sweetwater
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Originally Posted by MAKAI View Post
For instance.
When the duke takes a 1200 dollar bass charter out at the end of the day he was bass fishing for money. A commercial endeavor.
When he takes us out comm fishing with him, at the end of the day he was bass fishing for money, a commercial endeavor.
Outward appearances everything is the same. (other than the amount of fish potentially killed per day but he also has a much longer window of opportunity chartering )
Everyone should document their bass kill.
Commercial
Charter
Rec
Very easy to do, If anyone wants to.
Would sure help with all the Guesstimating going on.
It would be a pain in the butt to document every bass you take over the year, but maybe that's where we're headed. I know I do a survey for NOAA since I have a HMS license. I guess my view is this; if we're going to have scientists and politicians regulating our sport, the least they can do is use good data.

Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.
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