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Aggregate weight fishing is wrong

| December 6, 2004 8:00 PM

I'm very disappointed and sick of these so-called fishermen who fish lake trout for aggregate weight. I hope they are real proud of themselves. Most of them also are members of the Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club. Would these same fishermen do the same thing to kamloops? No way.

Chip Corsie has stated that the kams eat way more kokanee than Mackinaws. So why not net and have a bounty on kams? It wouldn't have anything to do with LPOIC, would it? Chip Corsie also stated to me that the LPOIC has no more influence than anyone else. Yeah, right.

Idaho Fish and Game has never proved this lake is overpopulated with Mackinaws, yet they insist on wiping out one game fish (Mackinaws) with nets and bounties.

Citizens Against Nets have been accused of lies and misleading people with out petitions. I guess people can't read what they sign if it doesn't agree with LPOIC views. It's also been stated pike minnow don't eat kokanee so I guess the 18 ton I've caught was also a lie and what I saw was also a lie. Wake up, people. The only ones telling lies are the LPOIC and Fish and Game.

I know of a dozen fishermen who could catch more Mackinaws but they just happened to be non-LPOIC members and a dying breed of fishermen.

LLOYD CAMPBELL

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