Two Lines or One.

[MuskieBait]

(03-05-2014 06:14 PM)OldTimer Wrote:  Commercial surf fisherman in the USA fish 10 to 16 rods regularly..... with no sweat at all.

And ... my complaint is about the regulation fairness to ALL styles , all places, all anglers - not your or my or their abilities....... or how used ........ and when and where - just that it should be ALL the same.

BTW - I would go as far as to say that the great majority of anglers (of ALL ages and styles) fish bait, and not lures.

Cheers,

OldTimer

Alright OT...if that's the case...

One line for bait and lure anglers...all season.

One hook for bait and lure anglers...all season...where a lure is considered as one hook as it is currently. No pickerel rig, or high-low perch rig, or two hook catfish rig...etc. One hooked bait...one lure...fairness...

That is the most fair for EVERYONE...no multiple rod and multiple hook advantage to bait anglers...

You actually shoot yourself in the foot, as bait anglers, to argue fairness in such case...

I can really careless, to be honest, about one rod or two for icefishing...because I fish on some lakes where there is a single rod regulation...and if you are working a lure actively on the ice, you can only really man one rod at a time unless you are deadsticking a tube...

(OK, I lied, you can jig two rods at the same time...I've done it before)

But to argue that bait anglers deserve multiple rods given their disadvantage of a stationary approach, while disregarding the fact that icefishing has an even more difficult stationary approach due to the unique hard and impenetrable nature of the ice, is ignorance at best...it's just a bias toward bait fishing on open water really...

The more you argue fairness, the less you'll benefit the bait angler...which is what this post's hidden agenda is all about, no? (I assume that given all the examples of stationary bait presentation you have presented...stating the disadvantage and restrictive nature of using only one line at a time at a very specific spot).

It's like racism...unfairness...even if to a minority (since you state, without figures but I'll forgive you on that , that the majority of anglers use bait)...is still a discrimination...so do not argue majority or minority...because if that's the case...well, let's not bring racism and all the inequalities of the world to a fishing post...but you know where I can go with this...