I agree.

How "fair chase" is it to fish around the Rufus Woods nets pens for triplods that leaked out?

There is a continuoum here. Some of the ones I have seen on TV, where the waterholes were concrete, barriers were placed such that an animal had to present a good opportunity, that isn't hunting in my book. Shooting, maybe.

At the other end of the scale is the landowner who controls access, manages crops and minerals to produce big racks, limits kill to the big ones, but makes the hunter go and find the animal themselves.

Unfortunately, the almighty dollar rules. Big game will survive and flourish where they have an economic benefit to the landowner.

As people get more money, and less time, they will spend the money as a replacement for time. As a kid, we used to spend a couple months, every weekend, scouting out deer. Spent quite a bit of time sighting in the rifles and getting ready. The areas we hunted and shot in are now pretty built up. Have to go further. With less available time.

I don't like the trend, it's not how I think it should be done, but I am afraid it is the way of the future.