Quote Originally Posted by ricky View Post

He did say that the bass fishermen have learned how to manage the resources and we need to learn also.
Really....?

http://www.bassresource.com/fishing/...ease_bass.html




Quote Originally Posted by Speck View Post
I hope if they make pole restrictions, it will be based on sound biology.
Don't count on it....

Quote Originally Posted by ricky View Post
Through the years he has said that the no. 1 thing that affects crappie populations is water fluctuations during the spawn. He uses a lot of charts and graphs that illustrates the results from their surveys, trappings, taggings, and etc.
 According to him, when the limit was reduced from 30 to 20 a few years back the research they did indicated that a 5 fish limit (or there about) would have been the one thing that would have made a significant improvement.
F&W is torn with it's own internal conflicts and being under the control of the department of tourism, which is political to it's core.... which in itself is in direct conflict of what KDFWR was originally created for. Tourism's marketing department has done a fabulous job of overselling our resources and now the ones that are affected are the ones that will bare the burden.