Originally Posted By: Lucky Louie
Thank you Curt for your thoughts.
I have two numbers written down. One number represents my guess on how many commercial fishers show up and the other number represents how many recreational fishers show up.

Of the 800,000 recreational fishers, experience shows that the only one you can count on to show up is yourself and we are behind in the turn out column.

If there is only one thing that you do to represent yourself and your sport this year, hopefully this is the occasion.


Of the numbers I had written down, I was close on the commercial turnout but the sport anglers turn out number was crushed and hit absolutely out of the park.

Pro-- 23 signed in to testify + 41 signed in =64 in attendance “pro”
Con--19 signed in to testify + 15 signed in =34 in attendance “con”

Almost double was for the bill.

The powers to be are trying to show a landscape of an equal standoff of support from both the sport angler and commercial industries yesterday, which simply was not the case.

It was a great feeling of not being surrounded and out spoken by the commercials like in other venues I have attended in the past.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I just feel great today.

Enough of that, now we need the bill to continue to move.
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