If tournaments were banned it would make no difference. If you're going fishing you're there to catch fish, end of story. In fact, if tournaments didn't exist there would be 100+ boats on weekends keeping their limits, so it would probably be worse. I can't speak for the north tourneys but in the south it seems most everyone is quite conscious of taking care of the fish and I'm sure the same applies to the north. Tournaments should be held when the fish are still shallower though, that's kind of a no brainer if you ask me. What about commercial netting? Everyone claims it's to stop the whitefish, etc. but there are literally hundreds of lakes that have never seen a net that have healthy populations of pike, walleye, whitefish, etc, isn't there? Don't they remove a huge food source/whitefish as well as some walleye and pike? How is that a good thing?
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