I am no authority on anything about fisheries . Am not disputing anything . The state lakes in north MS .were loaded with large redear and bluegills back in the 70's and they were caught by the hundreds daily . When the state started charging 5 dollars a day per person to fish from the banks most quit fishing them . You can still catch a fair number of good ones but nothing as they did earlier . IT would take a season now to catch what was weekly back then . look at the record fish from Lamar Bruce , Tippah, trace to see what yr. they were caught .there are a few that have caught a bream from these lakes lately but 30 yrs. ago it was not a big deal as it is today .