Originally Posted By: Bay wolf
Originally Posted By: Priority2

I am a bit surprised we don't have 20,000 signatures by now.
It blows me away that even in the state we are in as sportsmen getting bent over by the tribes and the state that more citizens are not outraged enough to sign a simple petition.





I think we are just not reaching everyone who IS outraged! This is totally a word of mouth project. It has been by one person telling one person that we are at nearly 1000 signatures (986 right now).
The numbers signing has slowed way down in the last 36 hours. I'm thinking this is because we aren't reaching past our small groups that read the boards and such.

What we need is for some ways to break out and reach everyone who has a fishing license. There were about 2.5 million licenses bought this season....imagine!


Yeah it's pretty shocking that the petition hasn't blown up with 10's of 1000's of signatures.

It's more than just the boards... folks are sharing on other social media like Facebook, advocacy groups are sending links to their constituents. The word is getting out, of this I AM convinced.

There's got to something important that we're missing that's keeping folks from signing on. I postulated the whole privacy/e-mail theory. How about the medium Change.org.... do they somehow have a bad rap folks are cautious about?

Or is it all really just another sign of the overwhelming apathy in the recreational fishing community at large? Or maybe that folks are just sick and tired of defeat at every turn where our rec fisheries never seem to get a break from constant assaults?

I know it gets harder and harder as the years go by to fight the good fight, but somebody's got to do it. Thanks for doing your part to be a catalyst for change Bay Wolf.
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