check rods and the practice of setting rods and not checking them is not followed by any anglers I am aware of. Also, in the third paragraph of the "Statement of the problem", it is said, "rods are strategically placed along shores in prime fish producing locations on a given body of water in such manner that they impede the utilization of the resource by other anglers who choose to use ethical and clearly legal means of angling". While I will agree to strategically placing rods along prime fish producing locations, it makes more sense to catch fish this way, the impeding of other anglers is perceived by other anglers. What I mean by this is that in shore fishing the line lays directly on the bottom of the lake, basically from ten (10) feet of the rod tip to the bait. This makes the line almost impossible to snag during casting. Most shore fisherman will just "reset" any rod inadvertently snagged. It should also be said that the suckers being used for bait do not swim around in the water column, as some anglers believe. The next time you see suckers in a tank pay close attention to where they are in the tank, they are on the bottom, this is the same place they are in the lake, on the bottom, not on top where other anglers can snag the line. Anglers fishing a shoreline do not affect the shore fisherman and are not "barging in" on another anglers’ territory. I would like to add that several of the locations we fish are not being fished by any other anglers and/or guides during the late season. In the last sentence of the third paragraph of the "Statement of the problem", it is said, "Most anglers consider this practice to be unethical". I believe this to be a very pointed statement based entirely upon the person(s) writing the proposal, as I am unaware of any non-biased survey taken of anglers of the State of Wisconsin. Again, is this being written due to preliminary findings of the Chippewa Flowage Musky Study, in regard to single hook
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