I am being selfish if I'm for abolishing opening day because I want the meat hunters to take home less fish, so I can have a shot at more fish later in the season. These people that don’t want to put in their time just don’t deserve to catch fish.
I am also being selfish if I'm against abolishment because I want to be able to show up ONE DAY and catch lots of fish stacked up in my favorite spot. I don’t want to put in multiple days searching for fish. There’s nothing wrong with this, the fish are put there for people to CATCH right?
Don't you guys see that either way you slice it, it all boils down to individual selfishness and personal preference? What I think about it is basically irrelevant. A long time ago I said I was FOR abolishment, but that’s only because I WAS BEING SELFISH. I just want to catch all the fish I possibly can….who doesn’t?
I hear the argument that this change would be better for the fish and has nothing to do with selfishness? I would say this is probably not sufficient justification for most people. You’ve gotta admit that not every place is a Housatonic or a Farmington or some other trophy trout lake. In all these other places (that don’t have hold-over potential), all the fish are gonna be dead by the end of the summer whether you have an opening day or not. It does nothing to protect the fish by changing the laws regarding opening day. Nature is gonna take it’s course like it or not.
On the Housatonic, there is no stocking prior to opening day so there is no advantage one way or the other. The Farmington is stocked prior to opening day, after opening day, at every major holiday, etc. From what I’ve seen of it, practically every day is like opening day based on the number of people out fishing. I see a continuous onslaught of anglers day in day out, and it looks like plenty of them are keeping fish. I don’t understand how you can say that it is better for the fish (or the trash situation) one way or the other. Looks kind of like a wash to me?
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