Quote Originally Posted by mperry View Post
I’m not a fish biologist but I would think a 12” size limit would be a bad idea. Wouldn’t that allow taking the big fish out of the lake? ��
We’ve had a 12 inch minimum for decades already and still pumping out 3s and a few 4s per year. I’m not a biologist either, but that’s what we’ve got.

One modifier to my original thinking. There are over a dozen guys including guides that are tagging and releasing big fish and a handful of guides are releasing anything over 2 lbs. I’ve been doing the same for close to 2 years.

I’ve always wished that MDWFP would put a 1 fish over 15 rule to try and preserve what makes MS, especially Grenada, special. Bilologist argue that big fish are at the end of their life and the survival rate in release is low, but to my thinking, if the survival rate is only 5% for a month, that’s an opportunity for someone else to catch a trophy.

I’ve personally only had 5 of my 70 tagged fish reported as having been caught again and 4 of those were kept, but the one that was released was caught by a lady from IL on a trip with her husband it was her biggest fish ever. And was released again hopefully to make a PB for someone else. Thats pretty special to me and well worth whatever I paid for the tag setup.

Wannabe…


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