Anglers over 80 must undergo tagging in 2021

(Taylor Canyon) Elderly fisherman must submit to stage one tagging if they seek the plateau of legality in cold-water pursuits this year. The labeling, promoted as a cost-saving inventory, is in actuality an attempt to keep from losing people on the banks.

“We love it that these charming old farts are out there catching fish,” said Ernestina Perch of the Colorado Dorsal League, the entity responsible for safe tagging. “The tagging is only a precaution. It allows us to monitor movements of the tagged and facilitate pinpoint searches if someone wanders off.

Most of these seniors lose sensitivity in their earlobes long before anything else goes according to Perch.

“It’s no more than simple vaccine, except that instead of a shot the unsuspecting quarry suffers a small incision in the fleshy part of the ear,” she smiled. “The slight sting is similar to the pinch of a staple gun and often stops bleeding within hours.”

All Colorado trawlers and casters should expect to be tagged before 2025. An in-home tagging kit is expected to be available by snagging season. Advocates of the program are pretty exited about the possible results.

“For now you should do nothing,” flipped Perch.

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