100% agree with you 58. Perhaps if they were still abundant enough more kids would still get that kind of opportunity today, would love to see it become reality, but it’s no longer the case unfortunately....here. Not impossible, they are out there, but rarer all the time. Over harvest of quality brood stock and trophy fish, while perhaps legal to do so, by net or by line, has definitely contributed to the current state of our waters. It’s not the only reason why, but it’s one of the few that we as individual sport fishing anglers on any given day on the water have control over. Any biologist (outside of AB), Pro Angler, TV fishing personalities and authorities on the topic would be on this side of this argument, thinking otherwise is to kind of say they are all wrong. To say they are all wrong is frankly in my opinion only agreeing with our Gov and current Biologists that our historical regs and fisheries management strategies have been right and correct all this time. I don’t believe that, the failures outnumber the successes. Our regs have kind of lead us in this direction over all this time and they are in stark contrast to the regs in many other places that have much more successful fisheries that protect brood stock regardless of age or stage in the life cycle.
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