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Originally Posted by NBR
According to [B]DATA kept by Fish and Game bass catch rates vary slightly by year, over and below a .25 fish per hour rate from 1996 to 2005. The 10 year average has been .26 fish per hour. So the theory that bed fishing results in fewer fish is not substantiated by data.
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Pulling Bass off their nests was occurring
decades before 1996:
no ten-year average since can reflect accurately any damages done by Bass "fishermen" on bedding Bass.
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Originally Posted by MikeF-NH
First, I really envy you your ownership of lake front property on Winni. A dream I would love to some day enjoy myself but is beyond my means at present.
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When Opportunity knocked to buy here during a recession, I took it. (And set a 15-year record in the least-paid for Lake Winnipesaukee frontage!)
If still working, I suggest partnering with someone—I did, but with Family.
Camp Wyanoke gave me a great appreciation for the spirituality that can be found at Lake Winnipesaukee: a great disservice is done to Humankind to convert any kid's summer camp into McMansions—IMHO.
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Originally Posted by MikeF-NH
I would like to respond to a few of your numbered points above:
1.) Preventing legal activities by taking actions (like disturbing fish so they don't bite) is actually quite illegal...If you try to stop them, at that point you would be committing a crime and subject to heavy fine.
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We're
training Bass to become productive fish—
to go forth and multiply—since when is that illegal?
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Originally Posted by MikeF-NH
it seems you are suggesting that several bird species are starving to death...
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Adult birds can fly away: it is the birds'
offspring that are starving.
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Originally Posted by MikeF-NH
...due to over fishing...
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It's not overfishing, but
interfering with normal productivity that is troubling.
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Originally Posted by MikeF-NH
I would have to see something produced by a biologist that suggests that statement is anywhere near truth and nothing less than hyperbole.
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By education,
I am a biologist: pulling Bass off of productive beds (legally) falls under a legal/moral condition such as Adultery—which is
legal! 
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Originally Posted by MikeF-NH
Yes loons are adversely affected by lead sinkers which is why they have been banned...if F&G did this to save the species don't you think they would limit fishing if the birds were starving?
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Loons need fish that are about ¼-pound in weight. Limiting Bass numbers impacts a fish that is special to Loons—and to the Spirituality that is Lake Winnipesaukee!
BTW:
In my memory, you are the first person here who thinks there are too many Bass in the lake!