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Of the 2,200 folks that quit....the ones deceased and ones that had moved were weeded out. All addresses were verified and a random computer program picked the 800 that were getting surveys. I like...

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I have a call and an email out to the head researcher doing this SURVEY.
I will share the survey here if he shares. I also asked how he picked the 800
and asked to be included on the results. ALL...

I would care to venture a wager that 90 percent of the 2, 268 anglers leaving trout fishing in Wisconsin are the spin and worm guys that like keeping trout and feel they have been micro managed off...

http://dnr.wi.gov/fish/pubs/troutstamp0810.pdf

See the nice photo of the trout part way down the pdf?

Is my photo I donated to the WDNR.
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Back in the day I did many presentations at Trout Unlimited Chapters.
One thing I noticed in the crowd of the 24 plus presentations that I did was
the glaring lack of "children" at the meetings. ...

I have been doing my part to get kids in to trout fishing by doing numerous presentations locally at schools.

My next presentation is at Richland Center High school in the middle of November.

I...

doing damage control before the stats come out from the survey?
Survey going to change things you don't want changed?
Trying to disprove a survey before the results come in smells
of bias.

WDNR of the state of Wisconsin with many well trained biologists and scientists think that this survey is a worthy effort.
I believe I will error on the side of people with YEARS of experience.
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It must be a serious concern or Wisconsin who is about as cheap as it comes is sending out surveys.

All groups are being asked for their input. It hasn't happened in 20 years and the results...

I believe saying ONLY 2, 268 anglers leaving trout fishing during that time period of STAUNCH trout anglers is minimizing.
It is a BIG deal in my book.

change is coming.
All DNR staff I have talked to say the same thing.
ALL anglers are being asked for input.

Some of it will not be liked......

Lisa Gaumnitz
DNR Public Affairs Manager, Water...

Petchenik worked with DNR's licensing staff to run a query of the automated licensing system to see how many people bought a trout stamp for every year 2004-2008 but stopped buying the stamp after...