Hey HBP looks like I got your dander up and that's good. Gives me a chance to clarify
a bit. Of course it's a generalization that all powerbaiters are "NO BRAINERS" and also
that all litter our lakeshore. But the use of powerbait brings too many people with
no understanding of their quarry (or respect for it) to our lakes. The evil of power bait
is that these people cannot practice C&R, it's a kill operation. I see some baiters trying to
practice C&R powerbaiting and/or other bait and they are breaking the law and killing
most of the fish they release. Same holds true for treble hook lure fishermen.
If you had ever frequented a quality lake or Fly only lake you would see that the garbage level is less that10% of that on a powerbaiter lake. So generalization or not it's the powerbait lakes that
are badly trashed.
What's wrong with a catch and kill operation. #1 it's expensive, supporting it takes all the resources
of our F&G that could be going to habitat improvement,enforcement,access procurement rehabilitation,etc. growing trout to replant for next year.

#2 It's a relatively poor quality fishery for small non-sporting trout to eat. Yes you are correct the powerbaiters don't get them all in Jameson or many others. But the point is the occaslonal larger fish you speak of represents less that 2% of the fish in the lake,whereas one can have 20 to 40 fish days on lakes like Chopaka and Nunnally with all fish over 18" and up to #5-6.
I have caught some nice fish in Jameson too, but it sickens me to see the horde jerking our those 6-7" planters by the hundreds in the fall opene,r when the lake as a quality lake could be providing the same fishing as Chopaka....30 fish days with all over 18". There is NO comparison.

So HBP it's not stupidity or eliteism that makes me damn powerbait. It's knowledge of what our
limited recreational resources (the quality lakes like Jameson) could be producing vs. what they are producing in order to satisfy the powerbait crowd.

The bait thing is just not adaptable to running a quality lake. Eventually it should be banned. In Canada you don't hardly see it used at all.

It sounds like you fish quite a bit. I hope you some day understand what I'm saying and come to see the reality of what population pressure and overuse/overharvest is doing. I hope you see that if we want decent fishing for sporting sized trout we should be willing to give
up bait and barbed treble hook lures for it. And give up killing and frying our sport at least most of the time.