Forgive me Keith if I take your position with a grain of salt, if your signature is accurate it sounds as if you have a vested interest in the perpetuation of bait usage.

As for Squawfish, what studies have you seen that would indicate the banning of bait would lead to the Squawfish 'taking over'? I thought not...suppositions of that nature have no bearing on the argument of whether to ban bait here or there at a certain time or not. I think its important to remember that although we all have empirical databases built up in our brains based on our personal experience, drawing any conclusions based on that data is a faulty exercise because of our inherent lack of objectivity.

Here is an example of what I mean...EF Lewis you hammer the squaws with bait during the summer...Hoh, I hammer the native smolts on bait in the summer....as Salmo G. pointed out above selective bait bans make much more sense for reasons just such as this.