It's Done !! Fish Act !!<'TK><

[tkwalker]

Passed this afternoon, 91 to 7. As H.R. 3080 passed through the House in overwhelming fashion last week, as soon as the Clerk of the Senate prepares a copy of the bill as finally agreed upon by the two congressional houses, it will be sent to the Government Printing Office for “enrollment” (the historical role of “written on parchment). When the Secretary of the Senate (Nancy Dickerson) gets the bill back from the Printing Office, she’ll endorse it. It then goes to the Speaker of the House, where it will be announced in open session, signed by the Speaker, then transferred to the Senate by messenger for the VP to endorse. Secretary Dickerson will then present the bill to the President for his (or her, if they take long enough) to sign.


It looks like its all over with but the shoutin’. But it’s still going to take a week or two before the Water Resources Development Act – more importantly, Section 2058 therein (The Corps will not permanently restrict access to the tail-waters), becomes law.

Rick Duty

[lupanfreitag]

The dams are like by children. Little dirty but as fun as heck.

[GO-OKFISHIN]

That's great news!

[CreekWalker]

That's fantastic! Thanks for keeping us abreast, TK. Have a great Memorial Day weekend.

[jad2t]

Suck it, Government.

[TNBronzeback]

such a huge accomplishment for anglers. The fishing is secondary in the overall picture, which is the little guys (us) went to the big guys (elected officials) and they truly went to bat for us against a few confusing/half-a$$ed government and WON! Never to be addressed again, that's a pretty big deal when ya put the chain of events into perspective ya know.
Huge thanks to all parties involved, from the smallest local bait shops, to the TN and KY elected officials!

[Headhunter]

I personally talked to Delapp on the phone when this first was being talked about (I told many what was in the works by the corps and most did not believe me at first). Delapp had some reason for pushing this and I do not know what it was (I believe it came someone of higher authority in the corps) but he was going forward with it no matter what and they were not going to include what the fishermen wanted in anything and for sure were not listening to anything. I believe it was Chris Nishan (spelling/) who did one of the better jobs of calling out the corps and delapp personally. So glad the corps did not get their way and many thanks to all who participated in keepigng the government at bay.

[Catch & Release]

This part of the bill is concerning though, it reads:
"The Water Resources Development Act extends the two year ban on restricted areas from two years to four"

[tkwalker]

This part of the bill is concerning though, it reads:
"The Water Resources Development Act extends the two year ban on restricted areas from two years to four"

It also keeps Alexander’s permanent ban on the use of physical barriers beneath the dams, and the delegation of enforcement of safety regulations to state wildlife agencies in Tennessee and Kentucky in place – both provisions that were part of his “Freedom to Fish” legislation that became law in June of 2013.