Hilarious, Rod. That is a good pointer for a laugh. What about giving her copies of the Chilliwack real estate listing, and ask her to look for prospective vacation cottages, on condition that you land 10 hatcheries a year, hehe!
She will always wait on patiently and encourage you to go fishing all the time
while doesn't know how hard to reach the goal. She may think as easy as 10 sockeyes or coho.
Basically my post is for the fun of discussion only. It is never intended to be a serious issue nor to attack others' fishing inclination. Just to explore the human impact on a rule we all seem to accept anyway. Does this rule really mean that much statistically? Say, using Boxing Day results, 10 guys keep their fish among 300-500 guys, do these 10 guys occupy that much space enough to reduce fishing pressure? Do they really likey hook into another steelie(s) for the rest of the day? If conservation is not a major issue, what is the purpose of the rule? Is it just to control you sporties what you can or cannot do just for the sake of controlling?
While I respect DFO/MOE on their intention of making rules, but we all know most of their rules don't give us sporties much consideration (like shutting us down at the first sign of trouble, but letting the natives do whatever, now including drift netting the upper Fraser. What about taking away parking spaces at the Scale Bar so you walk till heart attack?). So the post is just to explore this little rule which seems to have very little conservation impact but do cause some stress or unease to steelhead fishing buddies. In fact most of you just address what the guy who had stopped fishing can do, but what about the guy who still try to fish on. Does he feel sorry to have to drag the other guy along for the rest of the day?
This is especially true for buddies who have different fishing skills. The skilled guy may always be the guy with a fish, and the other guy feel such a burden to drag him along all the time, so eventually perhaps the buddies just stop fishing together. Can it happen? Just fun to explore this little human episode as I saw it happened like in my first post. Any interesting observation? I never had to deal with it, so it is fun to know how you guys feel when your buddies seem always waiting for you while you fish on.
Most steelheaders know steelheading is not about food. The chance to land a hatchery is not much. The Boxing Day Derby results tell us the cruel reality, usually 10 fish among 500 pretty skilled steelheaders
. Like Rod said, landing a hatchery is just a bonus. It is about a way of fishing life, the scenery, the river, the air, and perhaps seeing others fighting the silver bullet... So, let's not attack others for keeping a hatchery steelie which he is entitled to and may happen quite infrequently, and which does not damage a stock like the Chedder where brood stock is from the wild fish.
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