The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-10-02

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be up for dispute at one time or
another. But arbitrary bound
aries must be set at some point.
Opposition has developed on
the plan, 1t seems. III the
attempt is made to open Sank
Lake on bass for May 29th,
there will be an open fight
against it. Not all of the
resorters are with the plan eth
er. One resorter told this
writer Monday morning that II
it's opened earlier on bass, he
will fight 1t to the last ditch
and openly. Bass, he says,
aren't done with their spawn
ing at that date, and it's an
un-conservation move to try to
open the lake. 49,.
He intimated he would not op-
pose readily a change on crappies
and sunfish, as aggressively, but
he said he was perfectly satisfied
with the way things were and is
not in favor of the plan on any
score. Sportsmen in this city
point out that opening the lake
earlier on the panfish may be all
right in itself. But they indi-
cate further that the danger to
loss of bass under that type of fish
ing is far greater. :. They point
out bass would be biting plenty
on the panfish bait.
They say now that the effort will
not be made to open the season
on bass, we have it quite author
itatively The local sportsmen's
club would clearly oppose it.
And you can set this corner down
as opposing such a move from
conservation standpoint. E. It's got
to be looked at a little farther
ahead But there's no argument
to combat the premise that the
longer the lake is open, the more
| fish are going to be taken out. :.
| There is as yet no known way that
lakes can be returned to their for
mer status as good fishing lakes
once they are drawn down too far.
lingering stocking is reput-
edly better than spawn planting.
. . But it's still new, and in lakes
where there are plenty of fish 1t
is probably working out In lakes
where stocks have been drawn
down far below normal it may
not have the desired outcome.
The resorter told us: I'VE don't
want this lake spoiled. I, for one,
won't see it ruined" Well,
whether it would be ruined or not
is largely conjecture. But 1t does
open up another avenue toward
taking more fish out in an given
season. Besides that this re-
sorter pointed out, it had been tried
once with no appreciabS. gain in
tourist trade earlier-if that is
what they're after. If it could
be done with a total view toward
conservation, then fine. :. . But
the consensus is that it can't be
done that way, particularly if the
bass season is boosted to an earlier
spot. o..
Our position is not of oppOsi-
ton to this plan just to be
agin' things. Conservation,
and what is known of fish hab-
its, should be uppermost in
these decisions. When it's
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can be done earlier with out
endangering the natural spawn
ing habits, we're with it. F..
But not until then.
Well, the bowling guys and gals
are going to set underway next
week. =. They're all at about half
strength now and a general scurry
is on to get additional sponsors
and more players. The men
have a plan for three leagues which
adds one more than a year ago.
One of the interesting ventures is
the introduction of straight-away
league with no handicaps whatso-
ever. A year ago there was
considerable agitation to drop
handicaps; so they're making a
test run of the 28-week schedule
this year.
We're going to clarity our
position on this bowling public
ity this year. Addition of one
more league will make it inn
possible to carry all league
scores as we did a year ago.