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Tournament bass anglers have been unknowingly breaking state regulations for years. Last week, the Fish and Game Commission may have saved major national Bassmaster and FLW FLW Frank Lloyd Wright FLW Forrest L Wood (fishing tournament) FLW Fort Leonard Wood (US Army) FLW Famous Last Words FLW Four Letter Word FLW Final Weight Outdoor tournaments from avoiding competitions in the state by creating a change in regulations. In a meeting in Oakland, the commission authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: the Department of Fish and Game to write a rule to allow for an exemption to Section 23 of title 14. That portion of the state code says anglers are supposed to stop fishing for a specific species after reaching its limit. Bass tournament anglers, of which there are more registered BASS members than any other state, would be granted an exemption that would allow them to continue fishing for the species after reaching their five-fish limit. After the DFG DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council) DFG Department of Fish and Game DFG District Factor Group DFG Data Flow Graph DFG Difference Frequency Generation DFG Diode Function Generator DFG Dog Faced Gremlin writes the exemption, it will go to the state administrative law administrative law, law governing the powers and processes of administrative agencies. The term is sometimes used also of law (i.e., rules, regulations) developed by agencies in the course of their operation. office and back to the commission for approval. The commission is scheduled to look at the proposal at its May meeting in Bishop. The process could take as long as six months. ``If the rule continues, it's conceivable con·ceive v. con·ceived, con·ceiv·ing, con·ceives v.tr. 1. To become pregnant with (offspring). 2. that we would not return,'' FLW Outdoor's Dave Washburn said. The issue surfaced late last year when two tournament anglers were cited for fishing for a sixth bass on a Sonoma-area lake. One reason bass tournament anglers have been exempt from the potential of citations in the past, DFG senior fishery biologist Daivd Lee said, is because tournaments return the caught bass to the lake with a low mortality rate. FLW and BASS take extraordinary measures to keep the fish alive during and after the weigh-ins. ``This is 100 percent positive for tournament anglers,'' said Gary Dobyns, one of the most successful tournament anglers on the West Coast. ``It does not seem right to fish for four fish.'' An FLW Outdoors Everstart Western Series event on Northern California's Clear Lake two weeks ago was the first major tournament to go to a four-fish limit. In that four-day event, rookie rookie a novice; often an athlete playing his first season as a member of a professional sports team. [Sports: Misc.] See : Inexperience pro Sieg Taylor of Clearlake caught four fish weighing 30 pounds, 5 ounces. With a five-fish limit, he certainly would have broken the series one-day, five-fish record of 32-13. He probably would have come through with an all-time single-tournament record, too. ``It's a tournament with an asterisk (1) See Asterisk PBX. (2) In programming, the asterisk or "star" symbol (*) means multiplication. For example, 10 * 7 means 10 multiplied by 7. The * is also a key on computer keypads for entering expressions using multiplication. ,'' Washburn said. ``We definitely prefer five-fish tournaments because those are the standard for tournaments. It makes them more stable.'' Keith Lair, (626) 962-8811 keith.lair(at)sgvn.com |
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