I find the justification provided in the text very odd:
Justification: Anglers have expressed interest in aligning the size limit for crappie
at Jordan Reservoir with other fishing waters across the state.
Question 1: What anglers? I am confident that C.com contains a representative cross section of Jordan Lake's crappie fishermen and that cross section has weighed in here...did we not? The strong majority of us are against this change. So where in the Jordan Lake crappie fishing population was there an organized, vocal demand to align the limit with other lakes?
Question 2: What and when was the original justification to make an exception to increase min. size from 8" to 10" made on Jordan? And did the results of this 10" exception align with the justification?
Question 3: (As Jordan Limit is asking) How does this re-alignment and justification coincide with and support the results of tax funded creel research? I've never heard of a natural resource management rule change with a justification that excluded any language promising some benefit or protection to that natural resource or the surrounding environment/ecosystem.
Jeremy
I wasn't born here, but I got here as fast as I could