Quote Originally Posted by Jman5626 View Post
I see what you are saying, who wants to keep a 6 inch fish that’s so skinny you can almost see through it tho? If they are wanting people the take those small fish out to help the population, I’d think they should advertise it. Put up a sign at the ramp or something. Most people put the small ones back thinking they will grow up, but if that’s not the case they should let us know.
I agree, it would be helpful if they advertised it that more fish should be taken out, but it could be that there's potential backlash from doing so in this world we live in with PETA and similar groups. KDFWR advocating increased destruction of fish might fall under the "negative publicity" category so they probably have to tread lightly about it, even if it is the right thing to do. It kind of reminds of what the Forest Service is doing in LBL with the logging and prescribed burns, those things are necessary to increase the wildlife carrying capacity of the property, but people have been trained to think that both logging and forest fires are bad so they get groups together to try and fight it........I could easily see the same happening over trying to reduce crappie populations in Grayson Lake.