Fishing Licensing Exams?

[MuskieBait]

(10-10-2012 07:10 PM)Jeremy Ray Green Wrote:  I Wish to share fishing with everyone, Even if it means sharing with people that dont care to preserve the fishing options as much as other do.
If we can create a large fishing community in our areas we like to fish, than eventually the more caring fishermen will outweigh the ones that dont care too much, if the group is large enough and that group shows its presence often enough the ones that dont care will know they are not welcomed...

For me, I share when possible ...


~Jeremy.

I really wish that's how it works...but in actuality, it doesn't work that way.

It's salmon season...a walk down the creek will show you that it doesn't work that way.

You have people...

- fishing without license
- snagging salmon with treble hooks
- keeping more than their limit of salmon (and some even drive home to unload their fish and then come back to keep more!)
- slitting an easily identifiable male salmon thinking they can harvest eggs from this fish, finding disappointed that it was a male, and leaving the still alive fish on the bank to rot
- just slitting a female for the eggs and leaving the rest of the fish to rot on the bank (wasting of fish which is illegal)
- wading right through redds.
- cast over your line because they see you hook up a fish
- squeezing in to fish right beside you that is less than a rod's length away
- wading through the pool you are fishing

So many loogans...and they certainly outnumbered the ethical anglers. That's why we all hate fishing on weekends...

I strongly believe that EVERYONE must take a course and pass a test on fishing etiquette before a license can be purchased...and once you have passed the test, any future offense cannot be plead with ignorant or innocence. Simple as that...so MNR officers can just go and ticket...and the judges can just sentence away.