I have to agree with D.A. People in Caledonia and Houston County need to open their eyes and not be so one sided. The LTM plan consists of more than these people are seeing. A better quality fishing experience for everyone benefits everyone. Business owners, land owners, and most important anyone fishing the streams. Think about it, really sit back and think about it. There are over 700 miles of designated trout streams in Southeast Minnesota. The DNR wants to take a small portion of them and improve the quality of trout in them. They are doing this based on all Minnesota trout anglers. ALL of them. I am sure that the DNR will not implement all of the proposed regs. but they will do most of them. Maybe in the future when the people that are so strongly against the changes will have a change of heart as they look at the picture they have with a larger trout they caught in “their back yard”. Look at the rivers out west and you will see what special regulations can do for tourism and fishing quality. I don’t remember which post it was about fly anglers and litter. Yes fly anglers lose flies, but your comment about lead is not accurate. The amount of lead on a single fly is about 1/100th of the amount of split shot it takes to sink a crawler in a stream. 95% of my flies do not have lead. As far as litter, most of the litter I pick up is empty worm cans (light blue plastic ones) cigarette butts, beer and pop cans, plastic bobbers, mepps, rooster tail, and panther martin packages. And honestly one time I did pick up an obviously lost fly box.
Keep up the great work D.A.