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Protecting non native fish from non native fish?
If they want to protect the water from invasive things....get rid of the fishing guides. They’ve impacted the waters more than anything. 😂😂😂
another example of the lack of consistency in a management plan. yes, its replacing a non-native with another non-native. if you look at the states stocking plan, it allows stocking non-native fish within a drainage that already contains that non-native. but should it to continue be done? what about using cutthroat instead of rainbow? and what of the east gallatin rec area pond. it contains several non-native fish and is very close to the gallatin river. will this pond be next?
In what manner? Clients catching too many fish? I don't understand this sportsman on sportsman violence....
You know all those boat ramps and access points? Guides pay for them as well as for all the permits...they subsidize your fishing...Sorry you have a problem with the well to do, jealousy, capitalism and the opportunity to succeed in the USA. Ask anyone in Ennis, Craig, Fort Smith or Livingston where those economies would be if not for fly fishing guides.
wenger what about the to many drift boats on the water that you can hardly motor up river and waiting for the long line outfitter drift boats to put in before you can take your boat out. outfitting has spoiled the upper mo forever. also you might not be a eye sore but all those boats sure are.
$100 bucks for the public use permits, $300 bucks for my outfitter license, $100 buck each for my guides. Madison permits, Big Hole. Beaverhead permits etc. Anything else you want to know?
Outfitting contributes more to the MT economy than cattle. $100 bucks for the public use permits, $300 bucks for my outfitter license, $100 buck each for my guides. Madison permits, Big Hole. Beaverhead permits etc. Then there is the pile of paperwork required. Anything else you want to know?
Not confused at all...but you seem pretty tense. The term violence was not to be taken literally obviously. Firstly it seems you have no idea that guides provide a service for those fellow sportsmen who can't or do not want to fish on their own. Those fellow sportsmen have just as much right to fish as you do, even if they are elderly, novices or evil "rich" folks. An eyesore? What exactly do you mean? Yes I was perhaps the ugliest guide on the river but was never called an eyesore! Pressure on the fish. Given the nature of fish if they are pressured they don't eat. Seems to me they eat just fine if you claim clients catch all the fish. The key is knowing how to catch them, guides do this they are guides. I can't tell you how many flies and advice I gave away on the river while guiding when someone asked what what was working. You know all those boat ramps and access points? Guides pay for them as well as for all the permits...they subsidize your fishing. In twenty years of guiding I know of six instances in which guides saved others from drowning, including one gal I pulled out of sweeper after her mini pontoon was sucked into it. I nearly lost my own life doing so and she was half drowned. Those folks all were pretty happy to have guides on the river that day.Sorry you have a problem with the well to do, jealousy, capitalism and the opportunity to succeed in the USA. Ask anyone in Ennis, Craig, Fort Smith or Livingston where those economies would be if not for fly fishing guides. Ask folks like Kibbler's or Clint how they would make ends meet if not for guiding on Peck? You want to tell them to their faces that they are ruining your fishing? Can you explain just how guided clients have ruined fishing for you? Please, I am seriously curious.That is what I was talking about.