I'm reading several issues here.

1. Concern for big fish and making sure we have some big fish in the lake. I'll throw this out here since Grenada was mentioned. Every year in the winter, Grenada is drained. If you have ever fished Grenada then you understand the incredible number of fish that are in the lake. When it is drained, where do you think those fish go? Out through the spillway for most of them. But every year that lake is full of fish and plenty over 3 pounds. The biologists I talked with for over an hour down there don't understand it either. Nature takes care of itself even when mankind doesn't help.

2. Advanced electronics. I have Livescope as many do. I don't always use it but most of the time I do. I do that by choice. Some that have Livescope can't catch fish. Just because you have it does not mean you automatically catch fish. You have to learn it and use it correctly. This is a matter of choice much like you get to pick which vehicle you buy and drive. We all have to live with it until the law says other wise.

3. Overharvest of fish. CA, you keep putting it out there and you get the same results. This is not the first thread you have mentioned that you keep fish because the boats around you were and then complain about overharvest. I really don't care how many you keep or catch(I'd even get in the boat with you and go catch some). I'm not concerned about the other boats around you that were "filling their livewells". Evidently you and the other boats are not good enough to dent the population as you guys have been doing that on your particular lake for years and years. Carry on. I have a lake near me that I hear the same argument over. I still fish it and I still catch good fish. I can't dent the population and neither can the 100 plus boats per good day. I'll refer back to my last sentence in my first point.

The best thing that I think we can do, let's all go fish and each of us can keep what we need/want and enjoy our day on the water. Let the AGFC do their studies and figure it out. I know from past experience that even a lake that has been over harvested will produce some monster fish. With fewer fish, the fish there get age on them and grow. Their job is to survive. Just like deer, they do that well.

Tight lines to you all.