Thread: Keepers

There should be basically no difference whether you are keeping legal 11's or 12's. It just delays or increases the amount of growth time when they can be legally caught. When the lake limit was changed to 11 inches and they were all caught out, and the fishing was worse the next year, this points to not enough 10 inchers the year before. You can't release all the 11 inch fish and have more 12 inch fish than what you had when they were 11s. You can bet your boots that if 12 is the legal limit after a bad spawn year, you will have a shortage of 12's a few years later.

My opinion is that all is fine. Some years you catch more, some years you catch less. Sometimes you catch big ones, sometimes you catch little ones. Now that I think about it, it is just like......fishing.