Quote Originally Posted by bandchaser View Post
I live 40 minutes from Ky and Barkley Lakes, and fished 87 days last year. You fished during one of three different spawn times last spring that our biologist can verify. I'm not a guide, not a professional fisherman, but chase them year round in multiple states throughout the year.
From a statistical standpoint, you don't have enough data samples, and time on these waters to give a consistent analysis of the current conditions and situation that these waters are under.
Not trying to insult you sir, but 1 trip per year during the spawn doesn't really mount up to much.


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With all due respect weren't you doing something similar in your opening post that you accuse him of doing when drawing conclusions of the fish in our lakes because of your success on a trip to Louisiana?

That said I tend to agree with you and the premise that these invasive species have to be having some negative impact on the local ecosystem and the native fish. I simply can't believe that millions of large plankton eating fish couldn't. I guess the question is the extent of that and how it impacts the future. One thing I hope is that just the shear size of Kentucky and Barkley will allow them to coexist where in comparison it appears that in some smaller waters that they are in it seems they smother out most everything else.