CA, I don't disagree with you about the pressure on the small lakes. I have a small lake near me and when the fish start moving towards the beds in the spring, you have to take your own tree out there to have a place to fish. 30 fish taken by the number of people fishing that 300 acre lake is to much in my opinion. With that many people out there, I just don't fish it. But going and keeping a limit each time is not the way to raise awareness. We have some good biologists and fisheries people working for the AGFC and I know they run population samples from time to time. Their job is to keep the fishery healthy and I think they do a great job. Sometimes Mother Nature takes over as it has done on Dardanelle and nature will correct itself.

You said you keep very few but give them away. If you harvest 30 fish per day on 20 days a month, that's 600 fish. Over 10 months, that's 6000 fish! Those you see livescoping, are you sure they are keeping a limit? Do they fish as much as you? Probably not