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Originally Posted by bulletbob
Some laws are stupid, and blindly following what BIG BROTHER decrees just because they can is ridiculous..
If you don't want to eat the fish [ I would certainly try them], and they are already there, why make a stupid law that you MUST kill them?.. how utterly moronic.. Personally I might kill them myself, but who the hell is the government in telling me i am breaking the law if I want to release it.?.. Who makes these idiot "laws" anyway?..
here in NY the Great,Finger Lakes, St lawrence river, oneida lake, and others,.. are all infested with millions and millions of Round gobies.. they are way more destructive than the snakehead can ever be.. The DEC wants them killed.. Fine.. However, If you catch one in any lake or river where they already exist by the tens of millions, and DARE put it on hook as bait, right where you caught it, you are breaking the law, and fined heavily.. So no, as far as I am concerned ,stupid laws , are just that.. stupid,, and I feel no compelling reason I must blindly follow them because some suit that probably has never even fished says I must... bob
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So how do we figure out which laws are idiotic and which ones are legit? I happen to think that fishing for stocked trout is about the dumbest thing you can do, so can I just cast net them and use them for bait? Actually, you're not allowed to use a cast net in trout streams and that's pretty dumb because there is some primo bait in there.
And you're not supposed to use live trout for bait in Furnace Lake, but that's pretty dumb and idiotic because the rainbows you can purchased are certified disease-free AND the Musky Trout Hatchery has told me they have taken a financial hit because of the law.
And why can't I cast net herring in Lake Hopatcong and use them in the Delaware, especially the big ones over 6 -inches because they're the ones that look more like the anadromous herring that come up the river for stripers to feed on.
And shouldn't people be keeping like 20 lakers from RV since they're all stunted and need to be culled anyway?
And why the hell do I have to get my boat washed when I go up to Lake George this weekend? All those lakes have gobies and zebra mussels and I'm sure as hell not going to make a difference, esp coming from NJ where we don't have them.
Just curious as to who makes the decision as to which laws are legit and which are not.
Cause if y'all ain't paying attention to the laws I'm gonna start cast netting all your stocked trout and keeping the 7- and 8- pound bass I catch on musky lures from 4/15 to 6/15 for dinner because I can get nice big filets on them and I mean how much is a couple big female bass going to hurt the population anyway?
