Thanks for the report Stan. I appreciate it alot.

Out of staters put only a little dent in the population. Yeh, they do take alot of fish but no where near what in staters do.

I've put alot of thoughts into fish populations on lakes, and trollers and crank baiters do hurt a lake over all. Single polers, well, there aren't many of them left. Most folks these days have trolling racks for spider rigging, not just one pole, one jig anymore.

Websites? I hate to say it but they do hurt lakes. Used to be that if they were biting on a certain lake, you'd have to call around and tell folks about it so the word was slow to spread. Now it spreads so much faster when the bite is on and alot more fish are taken.
Crappie do reproduce at a rapid rate, I will give them suckers that but between fishermen and natural predators, most don't last long.
Last year when they all those big fish were caught on Sardis, how many boats were out there almost every day on average? what, 40-50. Some days just 15-20 but the reports I was hearing was it was slam packed with boats and everyone catching alot of fish.
What about last fall when Butla was so low and people were piling onto the lake and wearing them out. You don't think that's going to hurt the lake? If you take 5 or 6 thousand fish out of a lake, that's 5-6 thousand fish that won't be able to spawn.
Less spawners means less fish in the future. That can't be good for any lake.
I love to fish as much as anyone else but there's only so many fish you can eat. Why would someone go almost every day fishing and keep all they catch? Keep enough for a meal or 2 and throw the rest back.

Just my opinion and which makes alot of sense when you truly think about it