The mercury contamination is not a good thing, but the recommended ingestion limits are very reasonable and show that the water quality of the BWCA/Quet. is very good.  Take a look at some of the lakes near your home for a comparisson.  We tend to eat fish for 2-3 meals on a 10 day trip, try to keep the eating size rather than the trophy size, and plan meals so that we never are required to eat a fish meal.  Our major consumtion is smallmouth bass, which are an invasive species.  Therefore, I don't ever feel bad for catching as many as we can eat, which is certainly less than the legal limit.

I don't begrudge Stu about his opinion.  I bet he feels that he's providing good information and hopes that people will be responsible with that info.

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I agree completely. I can understand that on certain lakes that get heavy traffic overfishing can be a problem.

I also know that fewer people fish that used too.

Some fish and catch and release or limit their meals to a few times a trip.

I don't see a problem on the more remote routes and in areas where the lakes are all interconnected and not land locked.

^-----Paddle Guy, I like that line of thought.  I'd eat it every meal if so inclined.

Sometimes I feel those consumption regs don't really apply....at an arthritic 50+, I'll be dead in 20 years anyways....

monjon wrote on Feb 1^st, 2012 at 5:30pm:


I quit reading Stu's stuff about that far back.  I'm just not into wearing jeans in the bush or carrying a refrigerator on my back. I also disagree with with philosophy that most every article must be laced with the litany of the manufacturers of gear used, especially when you can find it in the back of the issue.  But then I'm not trying to make a living in the northern bush.

I do still scan each issue to see what people like Jimbo and Kingfisher have written.

pine_knot wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2012 at 1:41am:

Not to criticize, but maybe you need to visit one of those on-line life expectancy calculators.  Based on your life style and physical condition, I suspect that you might be pushing your 90s before you pass on to the here after.

dd