There was actually a serious study done and recently published about the effect on a population of Bass. Done over a 10 year period, The study suggested that the effect was that fish were being selected to become harder to catch since the bass were returned to the lake that were caught by tournament fishermen. Therefore, the population migrated to fish that were easier to catch and more suseptible to being caught. On the control lake, the opposite was true, a whole lake full of fish that were harder to catch. Applied to Crappie, the effect would seem to be similar, but different in that the fish that are caught (the more suseptible) are usually harvested, and the ones that aren't(the less suseptible) are left in the lake. Therefore, over time, the only fish left in the lake are ones that are harder and harder to catch.

Therefore, it's reasonable to assume that the reason I stink at Crappie fishing is that all you older guys have ruined my lake.

This has nothing to do with the original hypothesis, but it makes me giggle when I realize that I wasted at least 3 minutes of Bigger's life forcing him to read it.

Wannabe...

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