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Posted 5/20/2024 11:30 AM (#1028510 - in reply to #1028499)
Subject: Re: Muskies Inc FFS Position Statement

gimruis - 5/20/2024 8:49 AM

ARmuskyaddict - 5/18/2024 11:10 AM

Kill and eat crappie with FFS OK, but Catch more muskies and release them ("possibly" kill them in the process) not OK.

That doesn't make any sense. Crappies and sunfish are generally not being released with this technology, especially in the winter during ice fishing. Muskies are being released. Most of us that specifically target muskies are very good about handling and doing it properly so the fish survives.

Panfish are the species on the losing end of this and its not even close. Constant, year round pressure and targeted by meat hunters. Bag limits are going to have to come down on them soon.

While not statewide, in WI a number of lakes have seen a bag limit reduction on panfish. The chain I live on has had that for 7 years now. The "meat" fishermen that used to hit the crappies hard in late winter no longer show up. They would fill a five gallon bucket with 6 inch crappies and did it with just regular flashers.

Angling Oracle

Posted 5/20/2024 11:41 AM (#1028511 - in reply to #1028508)
Subject: Re: Muskies Inc FFS Position Statement

Posts: 313

Location: Selkirk, Manitoba

Shooting ducks on the water, turkeys out of trees, pushing deer out of tiny bluffs or shooting over a bait pile (in Sask) lobbing an arrow into an elk at 70 yds... Sharpshooting muskies. All legal (here).

Ethical? For many folks and for sure for myself, not at all.

Legal does not equal ethical.

Do the deer, turkeys, ducks, elk care how they are harvested or wounded? Nope. Dead or wounded ethically or unethically is irrelevant to them.

It ultimately is a "fair chase" issue. One has to dig deep and consider why you are out in the woods or water to begin with.

If you are pro-sharpshooting you are allowed to go do it. If you are feeling queasy about going and doing it because it just doesn't feel right and/or that you know that others disapprove of it - then this step by MI is achieving what it is meant to do.

Edited by Angling Oracle 5/20/2024 12:31 PM

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