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Originally Posted by Harold
I have NO problem with a 10M* investment for "investigating" ways to increase our license holders.
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I see plenty of people fishing....Heck try finding a camping spot around the water is SE Ne these days.....Most of them have poles....and spend at least some time giving it the old' college try from the bank at least a few times during the trip.
One thing I have noticed of late (I am a late noticer) -- is that when a "fishcop" shows up on one side of the bank and starts doing license checks that 90% of the people down wind start running for the hills towards their luxury 30 ft fifth wheels just like the free beer truck just showed up being driven by the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders....I counted 10 of them in a 2 hr. period the other day that got sight of the men in brown getting within 100 yards of them.....and they literally started running like crazy, not a stretch to guess they were fishing without a license.
I have not heard any arguments that the state parks are not "selling out" on a regular basis.....and most of these parks are anchored by a body of water.....yet it looks like many of the "fisherman" are forgetting to purchase a permit. I wonder how much license sales money is lost on these people? --- or how many of the people who have "stopped fishing" have really never "stopped fishing".....they just have "stopped fishing with a license"?
Looking at the county "offenders" list in the local paper...I think this last week that the "fish and game without a license" crimes outnumbered DUI's 3 to 1......And this is in Nebraska....the DUI capital of the Midwest
