CO CPW wants to ban fishing w frogs

[Bluumoon]

You literally can’t make this up…
Public comment through July 16

Amphibians as Fishing Bait Regulations

Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is considering a change to fishing regulations that would prohibit the use of amphibians as fishing bait. CPW is seeking input from the public to help inform a potential regulatory proposal. Public input will be accepted by CPW from

engagecpw.org

 

[Bluumoon]

Hopefully some other people submit comments on this. Proposing you can’t catch a frog and fish w it in the same pond it came out of….

 

[Chris in TN]

Who sits around thinking up this stuff?

Is there marijuana involved in the process?

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Only in CO. The new CA. You folks there are screwed, just like us in WA. This crap is just the beginning. Little frogs were the best bass bait ever back in WI.

 

[North of 60]

Just wow...

 

[average]

Seems more reasonable than the AIS checkpoints that get lots of support

 

[Hnthrdr]

Wut? This is dumb… very very dumb…

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Did CPW staff or was it the new commission proposed this?

 

[Jimbuck]

Amphibians have been on the decline for years. This was inevitable.

 

[Bluumoon]

Amphibians have been on the decline for years. This was inevitable.

The bull frogs (invasive) and salamanders they are proposing not use are not endangered or on the decline.

 

[Chris in TN]

The bull frogs (invasive) and salamanders they are proposing not use are not endangered or on the decline.

So, FWIW, when I was a kid we could buy crawfish (a nickle each, but that's another story) to use for bait. They were hands down the best bait for the annual spring white bass spawning runs on the TN river.

TWRA stopped that. You can't sell crawfish here anymore. I don't know if it's still legal to use them for bait (if I source them myself I don't honestly care - I'm a poacher like that I guess) but it isn't legal to buy/sell them for bait here. We can, at least for now, buy them to eat, at least.

 

[dieselchessy]

Here in Washington and Oregon they say the invasive crawfish were introduced by grade school science classes that turn free their class aquarium specimens.

 

[Poser]

So, FWIW, when I was a kid we could buy crawfish (a nickle each, but that's another story) to use for bait. They were hands down the best bait for the annual spring white bass spawning runs on the TN river.

TWRA stopped that. You can't sell crawfish here anymore. I don't know if it's still legal to use them for bait (if I source them myself I don't honestly care - I'm a poacher like that I guess) but it isn't legal to buy/sell them for bait here. We can, at least for now, buy them to eat, at least.

If you never used hotdogs stuffed into pantyhose to catch catfish, you're not from Tennessee as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Chris in TN]

If you never used hotdogs stuffed into pantyhose to catch catfish, you're not from Tennessee as far as I'm concerned.

I'll see your hotdogs in pantyhose, and raise you: Rotten cheese stuffed into a sock and tied into a 4' long and 18" round metal wire basket and dropped in the river channel for a week.

We were very efficient catfishers. But that was in Mississippi. Hatchie river - the channelized part in Mississippi, not the TN part. Grandpa and his buddies would go out in the summer and set bank poles (canes, twine, a big hook, and a chicken liver) jabbed into the bank, then run them the next day, and leave the basket for a week or so.

Later I found out that our baskets weren't necessarily legal. Imagine my surprise that there were actual rules on how to catch catfish.

ETA: rotten cheese worked great. We'd even drive once per summer to the cheese plant in Booneville, MS and get some scrap cheese waste and leave it in the yard, covered under a washtub with a concrete block over it, to keep the critters out, for a couple of weeks so it would get smelly. The smell was awful but the fish liked it.

 

[Phaseolus]

Did CPW staff or was it the new commission proposed this?

The real question.

 

[Poser]

I'll see your hotdogs in pantyhose, and raise you: Rotten cheese stuffed into a sock and tied into a 4' long and 18" round metal wire basket and dropped in the river channel for a week.

We were very efficient catfishers. But that was in Mississippi. Hatchie river - the channelized part in Mississippi, not the TN part. Grandpa and his buddies would go out in the summer and set bank poles (canes, twine, a big hook, and a chicken liver) jabbed into the bank, then run them the next day, and leave the basket for a week or so.

Later I found out that our baskets weren't necessarily legal. Imagine my surprise that there were actual rules on how to catch catfish.

ETA: rotten cheese worked great. We'd even drive once per summer to the cheese plant in Booneville, MS and get some scrap cheese waste and leave it in the yard, covered under a washtub with a concrete block over it, to keep the critters out, for a couple of weeks so it would get smelly. The smell was awful but the fish liked it.