I don’t have any strong opinions on the limit change. This would have effected me only 3 times this year and this has been my best year yet. I have only caught the limit once in my life. I did have a concern about the ones that are able to catch the 20 fish limit. I wondered if a lot of culling would be going on, reducing the largest egg layers. I am sure that the officials considered this.
They have been wanting comments on the proposed changes for a while. Out of 43 E-Mails only 2 have opposed the reduction.
I did read the article that Rister wrote about the lack of small fish in their serveys and this shocked me because everyone that fished in the area I fish (including myself) had to catch 4-6 fish to get a keeper. When I would mention this to others (including guides) they said that the serveys were taken someware else. Maybe the population is not as bleak as they think. I also hope that Politics are not involved.