The requirement to dispose…

The requirement to dispose of bait every 2 weeks is ridiculous. I am only able to fish on weekends (and only on a Saturday). If I go ice fishing for perch, and get a scoop of minnows at the access point, I end up with approximately 4 dozen minnows. I never use even close to that. have a large tank at home in my cellar and an aerator. I keep whatever minnows I don't use (the majority of the scoop) alive for well over a month, sometimes closer to 2 months, and that does me for subsequent trips to the same lake (the rest of the season). It simply doesn't make sense and is a huge waste of the resource (I consider baitfish part of the resource too) to continue to dispose of healthy and viable minnows that were purchased from a qualified bait reseller on a bi-weekly basis. I fish the same lake, so if the minnows were good enough on day 1 for that lake, they should still be good enough on day 30. It seems like a ploy to sell more minnows.

I also realize that you do need to draw lines somewhere, but they should be nearly so rigid. Take someone who lives in New Liskeard (which appears to be near the boundary between A and D. Many anglers do fish both sides of that boundary for sure. After all, from the scale of the map it is hard to tell, but I'm quite sure that there are rivers and creeks that cross the boundary (Montreal River near Elk Lake and Gowganda), but according to the proposal a minnow can't be caught in a creek on one side of a boundary and fished on the other side of the road in the lake. That's crazy. . It is bad enough now having such radically different possession limits (brook trout in FMZ8 vs. FMZ10 versus FMZ11, where you can fish stocked brook trout lakes in any one of the 3 zones and yet in one zone you are heavily restricted in terms of size and numbers, and only a few miles away in either direction, you can keep 5 of any size). Don't add even more confusion and restrictions by making this same area straddle BMZs. The proposal should have overlapping boundaries to allow personally harvest bait to be used more reasonably, respecting that people don't limit themselves to fishing only in one BMZ, especially when they live on a border between two. It would be impossible, as currently proposed, to live in Earlton, for example (BMZA), and ice fish in a stocked brook trout lake in FMZ10 (BMZD), with minnows they caught themselves, unless they caught and kept the minnows in a holding tank in BMZD, because they couldn't take their minnows home with them after ice fishing (assuming they knew of a suitable creek or pond in BMZD to catch their minnows in the first place). This too is simply encouraging wastefulness (people who did want to fish in both BMZ's would have to trap minnows in both, and maintain holding tanks in both.

[Original Comment ID: 209299]