Trout regulations and who makes your decision.

[Captain Compassion]

The regs are always changing. Make sure you always have a current set.



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[stefanoflo]

"The fish are starving"
This sentence summarizes, in a very broad generality, why restrictions have tightened so much over the years. Demand for power generation and water consumption issues, especially for agricultural purposes, tends to politically trump fish viability concerns. That's why you see flow releases from dams so out of whack with what is optimal for supporting stream based wildlife. And so it goes, that fish limits and regulations trend towards fairness for all anglers, so that even on a fish-poor stream, "angler satisfaction" is at least rudimentarily maintained.
If you don't like it, make noise. Unfortunately in our present societal state, that generally means giving lots of money to politicians and informing them, with a wink and a nod, that you REALLY ENJOY viable trout populations in our rivers and streams. Back in the day we used to call this "bribery", but nowadays some folks get real prickly when you apply this term to their milk and honey. I personally advocate joining an organization such as Trout Unlimited, who will pool your money with others to effect such bribes, er, contributions, as it were. Good luck.

Trouts Unlimited and Cal Trout are 2 organizations that I support. however when you ask about trout plants , they seem to advert you to some place or some one else with a answering machine or an email that never get returned. like fish & game and Corps of engineers .

[Bainter1212]

"The fish are starving"
This sentence summarizes, in a very broad generality, why restrictions have tightened so much over the years. Demand for power generation and water consumption issues, especially for agricultural purposes, tends to politically trump fish viability concerns. That's why you see flow releases from dams so out of whack with what is optimal for supporting stream based wildlife. And so it goes, that fish limits and regulations trend towards fairness for all anglers, so that even on a fish-poor stream, "angler satisfaction" is at least rudimentarily maintained.
If you don't like it, make noise. Unfortunately in our present societal state, that generally means giving lots of money to politicians and informing them, with a wink and a nod, that you REALLY ENJOY viable trout populations in our rivers and streams. Back in the day we used to call this "bribery", but nowadays some folks get real prickly when you apply this term to their milk and honey. I personally advocate joining an organization such as Trout Unlimited, who will pool your money with others to effect such bribes, er, contributions, as it were. Good luck.

[stefanoflo]

Just wondering
How do they go about making regulations on the rivers and streams . what Factors come into it.
and who has final Say . is it about Money or the fish??

Example:
Calaveras River 1980

Catch limit was 10. They then changed it to 5. You had no regulation of bait or hooks or how you caught the trout.
Now its at 2 and Artificial hardware. No Bait at all .
Who comes up with this idea to do this ??is My question.
Granted when the limit went from 10 to 5 you had to work hard for your fish and that was the year after the limit change.
if any Former retired CDFG are out there , I like to know.
Because that river is not what it used to be and the Fish are Starving .