Quote Originally Posted by Rowdy View Post
The possesion limit is to be voted on this spring, it was in Ky Game and Fish Mag. last fall, I disagree with you about the meat hogs but thats O.K.
About 12 of us spend $3oo-4oo each to stay a week, no one around ky lake fusses about that. The locals that catch 10 or 15 a day 15 times a year =150 and probably trophy fish. With the weather in April you may get 3 or 4 day of fishing out of 6 with the wind.
Thanks
Rowdy
Do you remember which month/year that article was in ?? I have all the KY F&G mags, back to July '98 ... and the Oct 2007 article only mentions the daily limit decrease on KY/Barkley being presented ... nothing about the possession limit interpretation. If you can't find the article ... do you remember if it was specific to KY/Barkley, or if it was to be statewide ??

I wasn't implying that anyone in particular was a "meat hog", for trying to get the most out of their trip (legally). I was referring to "meat hogs" as those that illegally try and sneak coolers full of fish out, with numbers well over the legal limit, or size of fish below the legal limit. Big difference in a "meat hunter" and a "meat hog"

I understand what you're saying about the "economics" of a fishing trip I spend around $200 for a 3day trip to Watts Bar Lake ... usually twice a year. With the daily creel being 15/person/day, even if I limited out on my possession limit, I'd still be paying nearly $7/fish. Even counting my KY fishing license, truck gas, food, boat gas & oil, and launch fee ... it'd be cheaper for me to drive to Herrington Lake, back and forth for 3 or 4 days, and take my chances closer to home. And I've actually caught more 2lb Crappie from Herrington, over the years, than I have from Watts Bar. I just enjoy the lake, the type of fishing that produces fish there, and the trip as a whole. It's more of an "adventure", than just fishing my local haunts ... and I'm willing and able to pay to play. I'm less about catching limits, or even catching Slabs ... and more about just fishing because I enjoy doing it. If I do happen to catch a limit, or get into some Slabs ... that's just icing on my "cake". :p

... cp