Originally Posted By: Carcassman
What the current/recent changes have made me do is carefully plan trips. No more hope in car on the spur of the moment stuff. And, I'll buy into guided trips/charters so as to maximize the chance to actually encounter something.

As an aside, our daughter is developing a model in her dissertation that trys to predict motivation for two different commercial tuna fleets fishing four different species. Is it maximize catch? Minimize expense? Consistent catch? It would behoove our "managers" to delve into the motivation of hunters and anglers. What actually gets them out there in terms of expectations, opportunity, time in the field. I am afraid that WDFW believes that "If we open it, they will come"


Along that line of thought I recently asked a WDFW employee tied to P.S. crabbing why it is that there is an annual 30% attrition rate; that is, roughly 30% each year are new crabbers yet no long term increase in sale of endorsements meaning roughly 30% leave the activity each year. In so many words he told me they haven't looked into that issue. I suggested that maybe they need to know why they are losing those customers - that is in the neighborhood of $600K just in the endorsement. Poof, gone, and they don't know why???
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