03-22-2013, 05:27 PM
[cool][#0000FF]There are some of us who are opposed to snagging, and opening up that inlet area to the wholesale snagging that goes on there. But the initial input from DWR officers is that they are not seeing the snagging and they label us concerned anglers as "purists". What does that tell you?
It is a discretionary call for the COs. If they witness a snagged fish being kept, they CAN write a ticket. They must witness it however. In times past I saw them give a guy a snagging ticket for a legally caught fish...just because it had a snag mark on it from someone else. When I spoke up in his defense I was told to stay out of it or I would get a ticket also.
The Utah Lake tributaries were closed and kept closed many years ago. And it was not so much to protect the walleyes as to reduce the illegal practices of snagging and overlimits. Neither Willard Bay nor Utah Lake is in any danger of losing its stock of walleyes because of angler harvest...legal or otherwise. But it is fundamentally wrong to open it up to the crowd that treats it as their own personal free fish market.
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It is a discretionary call for the COs. If they witness a snagged fish being kept, they CAN write a ticket. They must witness it however. In times past I saw them give a guy a snagging ticket for a legally caught fish...just because it had a snag mark on it from someone else. When I spoke up in his defense I was told to stay out of it or I would get a ticket also.
The Utah Lake tributaries were closed and kept closed many years ago. And it was not so much to protect the walleyes as to reduce the illegal practices of snagging and overlimits. Neither Willard Bay nor Utah Lake is in any danger of losing its stock of walleyes because of angler harvest...legal or otherwise. But it is fundamentally wrong to open it up to the crowd that treats it as their own personal free fish market.
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