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They weren't / aren't trying to turn it into "fly fishing" only. Rather, flies and artificial lures (spinners, wobblers, etc).
What really gets my hackles up about this, is that they attempted to make this "ban" decision; without involving the fishing public.
elitist,,,:lol::lol::lol::lol: you should cruise down to any fly only section part of any river and see how clean and well maintained it is,,,,no styrafoam bait containers,,no miles of monofilament,,,no jig and spinner packages floating around,,,,millions of corkies everywhere,,,,,,its actually perfect,,,,,,,ive had bait guys crowd me so that goes to the fishermen not his method.well the fly fisher groups did that to the upper north umpqua why not the mckenzie. since they are purest and elitest yuppies they should have any river they want lol
by the way the fly fishermen down on the elk and sixes rivers are the worst flossers i ever seen how they can say sinking like with weighted tipit and a lead headed leach jig isn't snagging I have no clue
i would rather spend a whole weekend trying to catch a 14 inch redside then 50 stocked hot dog trout.'...
wouldn't bother me since i rarely use bait when trout fishing other than when i am trolling. Most ly a worm and flasher tolling guy and a lure bank guy for trout anyways. i also think no stocked small rivers and streams need strickter regs just leave my lake regs alone because thats where i go for dinner and the occasianal river trout. Also i think regs like these are good out of town up in the small sections but here in town they should leave them alone and continue to stock fish.
This sort of thread always reminds me of a guy in the steel industry. He had worked there for 20+ years and never voted in the union elections. That didn't keep him from complaining,though. We stopped talking the very day I mentioned this to him and questioned his right to complain yet not participate. I wonder if he fishes now??
By the way,I recant my earlier post here,in fact,it's been deleted after I read the article and the entire thread. I would love to see Oregon's rivers in pristine condition. Will it ever happen? No. Most people find it way too difficult to change a five or six generation tradition. All I can hope for is two things; education and someone willing/brave enough to teach me how to fish with my brand new 5/6 wt fly set-up.
Is there any data that shows how many native trout are being kept by bait fisherman? Is the issue the planters, or the bait fisherman, or both? It would seem to me that you could stop putting in the planters and make it a catch and release only for native fish and have the same results as eliminating bait fishing for trout, because people, for the most part, are not going to fish for something they can't keep. It would seem that making it no bait is a move that doesn't make much sense.
...in the last three years I have attended dozens of environmental political and legal town-hall type meetings, and I have never seen any sort of presence from a bait angling group, or a lure angling group.