Re: Freshwater Cookout
i'm almost totally C&R when it comes to fresh water but anytime this stuff comes up I have to say this: anglers keeping a few smaller sized legal fish to eat will HELP the fishery. If you know someone who likes to keep fish to eat, convince them to keep all the smaller legal fish they want but release the bigger ones with better genes and more eggs.
It's a good compromise and is actually better. If you have a small lake where nothing is ever kept you're going to see a lot of stunting. If you have an identical lake where smaller fish are taken (at a reasonable amount) You may not have quite as many fish in there but you will have many more bigger fish.
I don't feel like looking it up right now but if you want check out how they manage those small lakes down south to be trophy bass producers. (like the one bill dance fishes out of on his tv show haha)
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