Mr. Steve DeMars presented or should I say walked the attendees through the process a allowing “bait harvest from infested water”.
We hope to have a video of his 30+ minute presentation posted depending on the audio quality soon.
I have to commend Steve on ensuring the attendees heard what the catfishermen of MN had to say. The MC of the round table signaled to Steve that he needed to wrap it up. To which Steve politly but firmly replied…
“you can stop waving your hands at me, the catfishermen have waited a long time to get here and since we might not ever get invited back, I’m finishing the presentation”.
That was paraphrased, but pretty close.
I will add that Steve’s presentation was so well done, folks with legislative connections and others sought Steve out to introduce themselves to him.
The presentation was about changing one of the laws to allow hook and line bait harvest that would allow an angler to catch bait and use it on the same water without transporting it.
As the law reads today, anglers can not catch bait, then turn around and put it on their hook in infested waters…although we could take that same bait home (dead) if we would like to.
