YES 54% |  NO 38% |  MAYBE 0%  |  UNDECIDED 0%  |  OTHER 8%

IMPRESSIONS: 408 |   RESPONSES: 13 |   COMMENTS: 3

Instant Survey: Do you think the DNR should manage largemouth and smallmouth bass with separate regulations?

[Background on POLL s506]

(Poll adapted from Wisconsin Outdoor News) Some anglers would like to see Wisconsin manage largemouth and smallmouth bass separately. That is not part of the new DNR bass management plan.

From Wisconsin Outdoor News Jan. 21, 2010

Fish biologists in seven northwestern counties hope that a plan to harvest more largemouth bass will help them determine whether black bass are subduing walleye spawning success in lakes that used to have good walleye fishing. Read the entire story.

Should it be legal to pick up road-killed game regardless of the season?

YES 58% |  NO 33% |  MAYBE 0%  |  UNDECIDED 0%  |  OTHER 8%

IMPRESSIONS: 464  |   RESPONSES: 12 |   COMMENTS: 2

Instant Survey: Should the DNR increase overwinter goals for deer by 25% overall?

[Background on POLL s505]

At the Spring Fish and Game Hearings, the Conservation Congress plans to ask sportsmen if they will support a 25% increase in the statewide overwinter goal from 737,000 deer to 912,000. Some legislators and sportsmen’s groups want to see the statewide deer herd increased.

YES 30% |  NO 50% |  MAYBE 10%  |  UNDECIDED 5%  |  OTHER 5%

IMPRESSIONS: 378  |   RESPONSES: 20 |   COMMENTS: 3

Instant Survey : Should it be legal to pick up road-killed game regardless of the season?

[Background on POLL s504]

Wisconsin Representative Ann Hraychuck has introduced a bill she calls the “Road Kill Equity Bill,” which would allow motorists to pick up most dead game on the highway during the open season for each species, provided the motorist has a valid hunting or trapping license. Read the entire bill here.

Here’s a tongue-in-cheek column in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by Mike Nichols.

Would you keep, and eat, largemouths 12 inches or shorter?

YES  56% |  NO 44 % |  MAYBE  0%  |  UNDECIDED  0%

IMPRESSIONS: 331  |   RESPONSES: 9  |   COMMENTS: 0

INSTANT SURVEY: A new fishing lure not only attracts fish but forces them instinctively and reflexively to take the bait. Should such a lure be outlawed?

[Background on POLL s503]

The technology, which has been developed by Louisiana State University’s John Caprio, makes use of the natural impulses of a fish’s sensory systems. Caprio has discovered that when a fish is exposed to certain taste stimuli, it cannot control its urge to bite.

“Fish learn and associate particular scents as food, but taste is an actual reflex for them. The taste of particular natural chemicals triggers a feeding response,” said Caprio.

But the new lures developed from this technology don’t just stop there. The LSU professor has teamed up with the company Mystical Tackleworks to develop a lure that bombards all aspects of a fish’s sensory systems (vision, hearing, taste, smell, mechanoreception), practically disarming every tool a fish might use to avoid getting hooked.

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Should cougars remain protected in Wisconsin?

YES  43% |  NO 57 % |  MAYBE  0%  |  UNDECIDED  0%

IMPRESSIONS:  378   |   RESPONSES: 7   |   COMMENTS: 1

[Background on POLL s502]

The DNR is considering offering more liberal bass regulations in some areas where bass are out-competing walleyes.