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So I was reviewing the updated regs. for 2010 and I noticed that there is a new Two-rod angling license, does anyone know anything about this? Like what kind of fish is this limited to? or where this is allowed? or anything at all?
Snaggy,
You can see more on pg. 7 in the regs. It's in blue print.
TD
Yup we did this in 3rd and fifth grade lol. Salmon and steelhead smolt that we raised. Was pretty cool for a kid. As far as Siltcoos and Tahkenitch go, the Coho are excluded because they are a special fishery with strict regs.The thing about AB is that you don't go there intentionally targeting steel unless you happen to see one while trout fishing or you buddy calls you and says he seen/caught one or you read a report so you head down. Steelhead in AB aren't common but are there. Maybe some get "lost" but I have heard in the past there were school kids releasing smolt to help the environment but instead of putting them in the streams and up river they dropped them of closer(making it a cheaper field trip) at the canal.
Yeah i read the book and it didn't mention canals, sloughs, or ponds. no species either but I know they are against the 2 rod for salmon/steelhead on the rivers so i bet on watersystems were a river running out of a lake that has a migration of salmon and steelhead traveling up a river trough a lake and on upstream might not me ok to taget with the 2 rod set up. I'm sure there will be clarifications as the year progresses.
So a quick question, didi they change the bag limit for pelllet heads while trolling 2 rods? Seems like a way to end your day early.
Bingo! it was discussed at odfw that by allowing two rods on lakes people would limit sooner and leave, giving off the perception that the pressure at certain high pressure areas has gone down, hoping to peak interest in planter fisheries... california discovered this over a decade ago.
The way that the law is written in the reg book makes me think that we can fish with 2 rods, for ANY specie in a standing water body. I do not see any stipulations for exclusions or restrictions for any specific specie.
I'm gonna guess that there will be a LOT of confusion on this new reg. They'll likely have to re-write it for next year; or take it back out and go back to one rod.
Thoughts anyone?
P.S. Yeah, $17 is just another way to get more tax dollars out of our already thin financial hides. And, is my mind playing tricks on me...or, did the price of a basic angling license just go up $9 in just one year?!
So I guess they will charge me another $20 next year to study the impact two rods have on the fish population.Your mind isn't playing tricks on you ODFW gouged the sportsman in the name of conservation and definitely not management!!