Quote Originally Posted by jigflinger View Post
I understand the problem. CA and I have discussed it before. If a lake is overpopulated, then more need to be removed. Increased limits help. But so does a concentrated effort to remove a lot more smaller fish in order to leave more forage to support a healthy population. I, too, enjoy catching larger fish, but I won't complain about too many small fish if I'm unwilling to harvest the smaller fish. Smaller fish will never reach maximum growth in an over populated body of water. I'm not trying to insult anyone, but I just don't see how refusing to keep small fish will ever help the resource.
I don't keep most of my fish but give them away . Easier to giveaway a limit of good fish . Not many willing to take a limit of dinks .