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He caught it out of his own orivate pond.
Whats it any different then buying land feeding / managing deer and claiming a trophy buck. If it makes you feel good about your award go for it.
You don't own those deer, they can come and go as they please and the neighbors can shoot it during any open season. Fish in a private pond are owned by the land owner, they can't leave and the only people who can catch them are ones with permission by the owner. How can you turn in something owned by someone for a state record is beyond my ability to understand.Do some searching on a member here called Taxi, he has a fish farm and raises trophy perch in his ponds for taxidermists. He is in Indiana, but what would stop someone from doing the same thing here then turning one in as a state record? He posted a few 16+ inchers in the 2.75-3lb range that he raised.I fish private ponds sometimes, I love it. Its a chance to fish unpressured fish that havent seen 100 jigs, and they are usually full of nice fish because people aren't keeping every one that's edible. I don't consider those fish in my PB or do any bragging about them because I don't feel its the same as catching a fish from a state owned fishery. I fish a pond every year that is full of 15-17" crappies, thats the majority of what we catch. Catching one 14" fish from a public water is more of an achievement to me than catching 5 of those big ones from that private pond...That's just me and if someone wants to start a petition or something to show the DNR I'll sign and back it no problem, I don't have the know-how to do that myself.
Um.....people raise deer in pens feeding them all kinds of stuff....then sell the deer to outfitters in Texas or anywhere in the country then people with a lot of money pay up and shoot them. Not much different. Life isn't fair, and people with money always have an advantage.
That's true, I know a guy that raises them for market (food). But the post I quoted said buy land and feed or make food plots to grow one, like a ton of people in Iowa do. Same thing for all species of animals really, no different than making a duck club or feeding geese year around to have a good opening day shoot on a farm pond.. or baiting coyotes. But those animals are fair chase, they can leave if they want. I draw my moral line on private ponds and fishing for records.
Just take the perch fishery on spirit. I dont need to tell anyone how many people fish that lake. You'll never get the jumbo perch back when everyone keeps the 8-9 inch perch. Btw jumbos are 12 inches or above. Biggest pet peeves are people keeping small fish, people expecting another fisherman to say where, when, and how you caught fish, people b***hing about the dnr for horrible fishing, and being the only person on the lake and 10 guys show up and have to sit up 10 feet away If people want better fishing than get up and do sonething. Start up a club and raise money for stockings, habitat, and lake restorations. Anyone can do it, make an effort. I did the numbers the other day, if all fisherman would add $10 to their fishing licenses for lake restorations it would be 2.3 million dollars. But lets face it if it was voluntary less than 1/4 of us wouldnt do it and would still b***h about bad fishing.
It would be nice to see a $10 increase for fishing, then see lakes like silver at lake park dredged and stocked better. I've been extremely impressed with what the DNR has done with storm lake. What will be interesting to see is if the water clarity improves with the zebra mussels in the lake to the point that the lake actually sees some weed growth.....it be cool to see some perch in decent numbers in that lake.
I've been extremely impressed with what the DNR has done with storm lake.
What has the DNR done to Storm Lake?
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Storm lake is great. I hope anyone who tries to change Silver Lake falls in and gets leeches on their sack
The thread is about the new state record perch, we are talking about it... Unfortunately we are free to share our opinions on here even though you started the thread.
No, you are not. When Squirrel sees your posts, they gone.