Lot's of good points being discussed. My main problem is that no one should be able to make money off a limited resource that belongs to all of us. Because as soon as you allow this you destroy the ability of the average guy to enjoy the resource. Just look at Europe. Any ideas how hard it is for the common guy to fish or hunt there? Doesn't happen, you have to have money. Things got that way for different reasons there in that they let wealthy people own waters that are considered public in this country. Even if we never let people own the lakes the affect is the same if they either dominate the water or make it too expensive to fish. Thankfully in Minnesota we've always protected any decent sized lake as public. But we have had instances where land owners try to get public access closed so they can have the lakes to themselves. Then they can keep the resource to themselves, charge people for access to the lakes, or reserve it for tournaments with lots of money. Thankfully there have only been a few isolated attempts to do this but more money will make it happen more often. That's my objection. Go ahead and have the clubs and groups that have contests for fun but as soon as big money is involved people get greedy.
