So I was just checking out the new regs regarding Lake Trout in Cold Lake and I see the SRD is not learning anything in this province. They upped the size resrtiction from 60cm to 75cm.  For crying out load do you ever just feel like screaming sometimes. Why can't they get it through their thick F'n sculls this is no way to run a fishery. For the vast majority lake trout fishing is not a meat fishery its a trophy fishery, why on Gods green earth do they insist on killing the trophy fish. This lake is getting very popular and these new rugulations do absolutey nothing to protect the fish. Who in the world wants to eat a 15# plus Laker, they have to be without a doubt one of the poorest eating fish,, no the poorest eating fish we have. The small ones not so bad but those big fish blahh. All they are are a Trophy catch,, take a quick pic and toss it. Gee whiz let a guy take home a 40 - 50 cm fish for the pan,, good enough.

Nope SRD will do their thing. Let people fish it out until its collapsed then just shut er down,, way easier for them to control and fine people on a closed fishery.

Uterlly fricken disgusted..

No different with the absurd way they manage walleye in Alberta no surprise here.

Ahhhh! LOLOLOL!  never mind I was going to try and introduce some reason to this thread but it would just bounce off the empty walls.

No thanks.."Why can't they get it through their thick F'n sculls this is no way to run a fishery" looks to me like you've made up your mind and are not willing to look at any other view point.

Can you answer one question for me though?  What possible reason would "SRD" or Fish & Wildlife have for purposely screwing up a fishery?

This is an absolute outrage and it is crazy to kill all those big fish.  Apparently they will get 6-7 years more spawning out of the fish from 65-75 cm, but what's the point of eating a nasty old trout over 10 pounds anyways?  There isn't one!  Now, people are going to kill even bigger fish and the numbers they take home wont be down too substantially over keeping fish over 65 cm.  People who want to keep lakers are going to kill bigger fish when they may have already kept their one smaller fish earlier in the day under the old regs.  Big fish will really take a beating now and get wiped right out now that Cold has become so popular as the management of other recreational fisheries has gone down the toilet due to the current management.  It's already not the lake it was 2-3 years ago for average size of big fish, their frequency has been less and less each year due to pressure and retention.  Now more big fish are going to die needlessly.  I have had it and am sick to my stomach about the state of our natural lakes.  Alberta is awesome at managing trout streams and stocked Rainbow lakes, but not good at our other fisheries. 

Chris K     

The smaller ones are actually not bad at all no walleye but hey eaten fresh its still fresh fish.

I hope as times goes on and some of the old gaurd in both the SRD and our local communities pass the torch onto younger more up to date thinkers.

The smaller ones are actually not bad at all no walleye but hey eaten fresh its still fresh fish.

I hope as times goes on and some of the old gaurd in both the SRD and our local communities pass the torch onto younger more up to date thinkers.

  Change is a good thing.

ps.
if someone started an official petition i'd bet they'd have no problems getting a kerjillion signatures....