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What is your complaint about the tournament.I'm interested to hear your thoughts.
They will be surpised this year up on Sherman.
I dont like tournaments either. Im a conservationist. If you can get enough support I will help out. I agree a lake like silver is not a place to have big tournament every year.
Can't get into the link Hali.......firewall shuts it down.....
but i will be there to observe and hopefully to put a buzz in the right peoples ears that they should try moving on next year and that i will make every effort to put an end to it if it is considered again for next year!
Hey Hali-man maybe if you complain about the trap attack on here they will mention your name on the PA system during this year's event like they mentioned mine at the Whitney Point Crappie Derby last year because I was ranting about how the crappie derby has effectively brought enough fishing pressure to the 1200 acre impoundment enough so, that it has wiped out the crappie fishing. The crappie fishing still sucks there like it has for the last 10 years thanks to that particular event being forced on a lake that in no way could withstand thousands of people pounding the crappies year after year. Of course the event is largely designed to serve the interests and fundraising efforts of a particular sportsman's association that sponsors it. Now you have an event called a "Crappie Derby" where most of the participants haven't even caught a damn crappie in years. Call it an ice party or whatever you want but for god's sake please drop the "Crappie" in derby because you folks who have organized that event for years have helped in large part to wipe out the very fish the event is designed around. When will people learn that 1200 acre lakes are NOT big enough to withstand constant fishing pressure especially with fish that are as easy to catch as crappies and the advent of tipdowns. The only hope is reducing the crappie limit to maybe 5 fish instead of 25 which is still too liberal.
I don't mean to hijack your thread Hali, but I wonder how the guys who fished the Silver Lake tourney last year feel it was run.
My best friend who fishes Silver Lake 5 days a week from his boat said the perch this year were the largest ever. It goes to show you that you can't take too many perch out of a Lake.
...The majority of Wyoming county is farm/agriculture and will never sustain economic benefit from tourism. What attractions would generate interest in the county...Letchworth and the "Trap" tournament. Aside from the local restaurants [and state park officials, lets not forget they charged people to enter the launch] receiving increased business from ice fishermen coming directly off the ice, Perry should not expect economic benefits from the tourney...
Finally, it might be viewed as hypocritical by some that locals are complaining about fish taken.
The more we talk about it here the bigger the can of worms will get and silver lake will go to the ones that want the money. When the lake is fished out they will give it back to us and we can fish an empty lake. Lets think about the future of the lake. Not the short term. If we keep taking out the breeders we wont have a fishery left.
Hali...I understand your reasoning and I apologize if you felt I was attempting to persuade you.
Making this lake Famous will kill it like it did many others.