Bait Ban Poll

[Steve aka Fishmaster]

Please Vote on this Poll to help save our Bait Industry ...i will also be sending out emails to everyone on this site to vote ..

[corey]

Absolutely bait should be sold. If I can legally catch my own bait and use it, I should be able to purchase it from someone else to use for myself too. I don't have the time, patience, or even possibly skill to catch my own bait. I would much rather buy it from someone else.

There is no reason why someone who catches bait as a living can't be trusted to do the best thing for the surrounding waters. Punishing people like Steve who makes his living from people like me is definately not the way to keep our economy healthy. It's bad enough that government decisions have decimated most of the large industry in this country, but now they have to destroy the smaller niche industries as well.

Sometimes you have to wonder where our government gets their information from, because it's obviously not from the experts in the areas that they are affecting with their legislation. If our elected officials would start working for the people who have elected them, instead of the people who secretly fill their bank accounts, our country might begin to trust these politicians and allow them to make decisions without the constant critique. Until our politicians involve the people they are destroying with their un-educated decisions, they are going to continue to be scrutinized to the point where they are no longer deemed as needed.

With all the laws that have/are being tabled that take away rights and priviledges of honest taxpaying citizens, it's only time before this country drives itself into some sort of retaliation against our so called lawmakers. More and more in the news are we hearing about the honest person having to turn to illegal practises in order to make ends meet. When are our politicians going to realize that they are driving our country into the ground?

cd.

[mooner]

I do not disagree with banning the transporting of bait fish out of the infected area.
But I do disagree with banning the sale of bait fish in the affected area.
The infected bait fish are going to be consumed by the larger fish and banning the sale of the bait fish will not stop this.
There is no way the MNR can ban the larger fish from eating the bait fish and the amount of bait that is bought and sold is no where near the amount of bait consumed naturally.
Steve I hope this poll can do some good.
Mooner

[brad51]

Hi Steve
I just voted on your Bait Ban Poll
Good Luck with it I hope it Helps

Brad

[joeandpauline]

steve .. hope this helps bud , i know that you wouldnt do anything that would put your livelyhood in the shitter . your knowledge on this subject is good enough for us
joe and pauline

[captnn]

I do not think that bait should be transported out of the infected area but allowed to be caught and sold in the infected area. Good luck. Nick

[mudcatmatt]

I personally think that that is such a load of bull, pretty soon you're going to have to have a permit to catch worms on your own damn property. You know, because we don't want earthworms moving itno our waterways. Anyways good luck on the vote.

Sincerely;
Mudcatmatt

[Rich]

I dont disagree in the slightest, because if I did, my opinion would be wrong.

[jjcanoe]

Why leave things to amateurs. Since you guys know what to look for, keep you guys collecting and you can even report in to the MNR when you find a fish showing signs of being infected.
99% of bait dealers are reputable. There's this Hillbilly guy (has a washer and dryer out in his yard and stacks of firewood, a pet calf, a few rows of veggies a bunch of barn cats and even a coon dog)north of Kingston who sells bait from his backyard and he refused to sell me a small pike minnow he had in one of his tanks. I thanked him for knowing what he was doing and told him that I was on the commity which got the "Don't dump you bait bucket" page into the ONT regulations for the first time about 7 years ago. We chatted for about an hour after that about bait and fishing and stuff. He even let me in on a few local hotspots.

jjcanoe

[moonraker]

Hi Steve you got my vote, keep up the good work.

[muddyriver]

Yep, agreed upon.

Isn't it no different then the rule that was/is already in place? You know the rule where you can't use baifish from other bodies of water in a different one. Or something like that.

[metall]

steve i got ur back man it is all retarded bullshit

[wildthing93]

U got me on board

[Steve aka Fishmaster]

moneymaster said:

Man oh man...

IC you don't like to use minnows Rich ...i think i haven't seen you go fishing once with no minnows ...your really given yourself a good name on the net ..

[fisher]

hey steve. you know where i stand . just lettin you know.

[STANK]

I'm totally in agreement with you Steve. Bureaucrats are always so reactionary to the slightest crisis. Most people I know are going to catch there own around this area anyway not to mention the black market opportunist will pop up here and there. Instead of letting responsible bait and tackle proprietors educate the masses which only they can do way more effectively than high priced MNR flyers collecting dust on a rack somewhere.

Hopefully we can make enough noise to keep you in business.

STANK

[jeremy]

I once bought 2 dozen minnows with 2 perch mixed in.The one was almost big enough to eat stuff like that should never happen in my opinion.The guy who caught the bait should have been fined.Any ways i hope this poll can contribute in some way.


JER

[Bones]

The MNR's reaction to this is very hard to understand. Individuals are alllowed to net minnows but not dealers? They are being treated like second class citizens as well as being deprived part of their livelyhood. It is insulting to think our government does not trust the dealers to abide by the law. Why else?

John

[bassil]

You have my support Steve. Small, responsible, legitimate businesses are the heart and soul of small communities.

Jim.

[knightfisher]

Come on guys, over 700 members and only 49 votes
Get on board and help Steve out

[carp-starter]

If one can use minnows that one catches, then one should be able to buy minnows in the infected area.

The government has always been an ass.

carp-starter

[mazz]

hey steve u got my vote.i dont think the gov thought this one through.seems to me there would be alot more transport of minnows and other fish to other bodies of water if amateurs had to catch ther own

[newbie]

Another prime example of the federallys sticking their nose irn stuff they know nothing about. Probably blaming low stocks on the bait fish harvest not the commorants. Lets ban Commorants and start today kill all of them before there are no living islands left on any lakes. These birds are destructive eating machines and I believe if we culled them are bait problem would go away.

[Steve aka Fishmaster]

newbie said:

Another prime example of the federallys sticking their nose irn stuff they know nothing about. Probably blaming low stocks on the bait fish harvest not the commorants. Lets ban Commorants and start today kill all of them before there are no living islands left on any lakes. These birds are destructive eating machines and I believe if we culled them are bait problem would go away.

This reall has nothing to do with Cormorants yes they are **** also ..but i have seen more bait this year then in alote of years ..you would think if the bait was infected they would want us to clean them up a little might stop a few fish from eating VHS the des i still see no proff of ..

[Steve aka Fishmaster]

moneymaster said:

I dont disagree in the slightest, because if I did, my opinion would be wrong.

NO OPIOIN NO VOTE SEEMS FISHY :(what happened to Man o Man

[Rich]

Steve I agree bait should still be sold in the infected area. I just disagree with the bashing of the MNR.

[UncleBuck]

i've never seen more baitfish as I saw last year...

not harvesting them, will only make things worse...

[mrk77]

Hello I have voted yes of course.Get the word out and lets see more votes.

[Steve aka Fishmaster]

Thanks Guys for your Votes ...if any of you belong to other site feel free to post this link ..the more votes we get the better chances we have getting this ban removed from our area and be back to keeping you guys in minnows all spring and summer ..Thanks again Steve
HERE IS THE LINK Just Copy and Paste
fishmaster.proboards46.com/index.cgi?board=baitban

[bigfish3]

I totally agree with you. You've got my vote. Bigfish