Well, as far as criticizing pond owners for having private ponds I think there's a big difference between my pond funded by me and the "public" waters that we all own via our tax money. I might mention on lake Windemere in UK where I stayed and almost all inland UK waters there is a 10 mph speed limit. That has solved the speed boat and jet ski problem I bet. Do we need more regulation? But guess what, there is a water ski club on that UK lake. They only go 10 mph using big giant skis! Funny! I've been almost run over by jet skis too, not fun. As to the comment about tournaments getting kids into fishing. If you want to teach kids how to fish for greed I guess the tournament might help. The bass fisherman I've seen in tournaments aren't really sport fishing anyway, they're just thrashing the water as fast as they can to maximize time with a wet line. It is illegal to make money off of wild game and that's a good thing, but if so, why can tournament anglers win big bucks for catching fish? Cecil has a good layed back attitude with his "to each his own" but unfortunately when you allow all this stuff some people don't get to excercise their "own" at all if they can't get on the public lake. Oh well, I've vented. This has been a hot topic lately here in the local MN outdoor papers. And now let's discuss fish mortality after tournaments.
