Once again, the Ohio
Division of Wildlife does not get it.
While the agency
(correctly) is proposing is to allow anglers to use up to three
fishing lines per person on Lake Erie the measure also would permit
such use on the Ohio River, since those states permit angers to
employ a trio of lines.
This amendment to
include the Ohio River and its tributaries to the first dam was made
August 8th and presented to the eight-member Ohio Wildlife
Council. It is this body that will have the final say on October 9th,
though I am not holding my breath the eight individuals will do the
right thing and retain the two-rod rule for shore fishing only.
So far so good, but
now comes to bad.
The Wildlife
Division continues to have an uncanny inability to look at the
problems that almost certainly will arise with allowing shore anglers
to use up to three poles per person. As has been noted here
previously, such an allowance very possibly – no probably – will
grant one, two or three individuals the ability to dominate public
piers, docks, breakwaters riverfront access sites and other choice
locations where good fishing and high pressure angling areas all
ready currently exist.
Such dominance is
common in places like Florida. Here, an angler or two can – and
actually, do – control favored angling outposts.
For the Wildlife
Division to ignore such examples and proceed with an idea that will
shut-out shore-restricted fishers clearly is an insult to common
sense and the agency’s stated desire to provide fishing access for
people of all economic and social status.
JFrischk@Ameritech.net
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