Free Press Article on Bass Season Change.

[Waterfoul]

Art deleted a post I made on his facebook yesterday.  He also told me he spent 1.5 hours fishing for one largemouth and never caught it.  He says it's apples to oranges... comparing Florida fish to Michigan fish.  I think they are all apples though they may be different varieties.

[djkimmel]

He and all the others are stuck on what happens to individual bass, which of course has zero bearing on the population as studies have shown over and over as far as fishing including fishing during the spawn. I've caught largemouth bass off beds in the first split second of the first cast. What does that mean? Not a whole heck of a lot.

You can't argue or debate people who not only don't know the science, but also refuse to acknowledge there even is any science. They just know... you're wasting your time with him and the rest of that group. That article in the paper was written by someone who knows there is some actual science from real sources but they don't serve her purpose of keeping people off her lake - Lake St. Clair, so she is conveniently not using them...

Whoever wrote that petition doesn't know the first thing about bass biology and science, or knows enough to know how to crank up prejudiced people into anger and action by lying to them and misleading them. Shameful and disappointing that they would use the same tactics the humane society of the U.S. uses. Get anglers fighting more among each other - bad for fishing. Say they aren't anti-bass tournament but do everything to turn other anglers against bass tournament anglers - bad for fishing. There actions are shameful and selfish regardless of what they claim. Very transparent.

Meanwhile, we'll keep using science and facts to work for Option 4 as the fair option that actually makes sense and works. We won't resort to their tactics because we actually care about the future of fishing. For everyone. Not just for people who think exactly like us.