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ion

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Chumming
« on: November 20, 2009, 04:32:48 PM »
Why is chumming illegal?
Wouldn't be a good thing to give some food to fish or the other aquatic creatures?
Wouldn't plenty of natural food benefit fish ultimately?
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2009, 05:10:29 PM »
Assuming you are talking about using chumming in the fishing sense...

Because it lures fish in....  ::)
Think of kokanee on Kawkawa lake, they feed on krill.
Chum the water with alot of krill, school comes in to feed (you are also using krill) and you whipe out the whole school.
It is there to give fish a chance just like natural bait cannot be used on some rivers, it gives fish a sporting chance.
Do you think it is ok to bait a bear if you are hunting?

If you are just referring to feeding fish without fishing while doing so....
It will give fish a reliancy on humans. Its th reason why they have signs up all over provincial parks "do not feed the animals." They want the animals to live on their own.

Either way it is not good for the fish.
Just let nature do its own thing.
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2009, 05:15:42 PM »
ED, you're jumping ahead a little bit. Ion is simply asking, not suggesting that he wants chumming to be legal.

Anyway, there is one other reason that has been missed, which is eutrophication, enrichment of nutrient in a lake. Chumming in freshwater fisheries would become a form of organic pollution if done too widely.
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2009, 05:48:16 PM »
Then there's the chumming that I do when I'm out in rough seas.  :)

Curse my fragile constitution.
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2009, 06:03:46 PM »
Chumming the water in Florida at sea is how most people fish.
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2009, 06:46:18 PM »
I am not very sure about water pollution, because there is the example of carp fishing.
The carp fisherman (in other parts of the world) are chumming using kilograms of bait: corn, boilies (mix of wheat and lots of things), worms, maggots etc, and they have no worries about polluting the water. On the other hand, carp is a piggy creature, and they eat everything edible there may be.
 
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2009, 06:58:51 PM »
Does anybody know when this rule was introduced? Was it before daily quotas to indirectly limit the number of fish you catch?
The rules are made for our benefit and can be changed.
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2009, 07:07:44 PM »
ED, nevermind.
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2009, 07:12:49 PM »
Quote from: Rodney on November 20, 2009, 07:07:44 PM
ED, nevermind.

LOL

He had him pegged from the start.
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2009, 07:30:26 PM »
You shouldn't feed animals in a zoo, because they become obese and make teeth cavities.
Also, in a reservation, you don't want to change wild animals habits.

Now take the example of a small stocked lake like Como lake, where you put in 2000 fish at once.
They are starving there...
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2009, 07:34:17 PM »
Do you love FISH or FISHING?
This is the question...
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2009, 07:52:30 PM »
Quote from: ion on November 20, 2009, 07:34:17 PM
Do you love FISH or FISHING?
This is the question...


Chumming has nothing to do with loving fish. It has to do with making the catching part easier....
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2009, 08:01:27 PM »
nets work good too :D
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2009, 08:06:27 PM »
Quote from: bbronswyk2000 on November 20, 2009, 07:52:30 PM
Chumming has nothing to do with loving fish. It has to do with making the catching part easier....
Thinking a little bit more about Como Lake situation: actually starving fish are easier to catch and willing to bite anything
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2009, 08:51:12 PM »
Now I've got it ;D
Lets say, early in the morning, some guy is chumming a place with, lets say 1kg of maggots;
In couple of hours he is going to catch lots of fish, and of course, release them all. Lots of fun.
Later on, anybody fishing the place with anything different than maggots, catches nothing;
It's like a personal hatch ;D
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