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I agree, good work and thank you again.

The survey is quite comprehensive.

Thanks for doing the leg work Spinner.

Everyone has a right to an opinion. But not all opinions have equal validity in areas of scientific study. The best opinions are evidence based and not emotionally based. There should be no...

I have no problem with bait or spin fishers. That is how most fly fishers, myself included, began to fish.

We need to be careful that we do not use the bad behavior of some members of a group to...

What in my post shows bias?

I think if anyone has shown bias it is your lack of reply to the specific facts about how surveys are done and what they can and cannot show. They cannot show why more...

Actually we don't know how many well trained biologists and scientists think this valuable or not. You are concluding something not evidence. You first state a fact, that the DNR has well trained...

Lets examine the article you referenced to see if you are correct.

"The Department of Natural Resources mailed out surveys earlier this month to more than 800 randomly picked fishing license...

Gross numbers are misleading unless you have the population from which they are taken.

2,268 anglers left but 2,268 out of what? Out of 136,836 in 2008. This is 1.6% of the 2008 stamp buyers. ...

The information given by the DNR is more complicated than they present, and the information is misleading overall. Lets examine that actual raw data rather than what is presented in that article.
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