The post above that claims my argument was with someone other than a guide on the St. Johns goes a long way toward demonstrating who is credible in this debate, and who is not. My argument was indeed about the St. Johns, and it was indeed with a man who guides on that river; his moniker on the board at the time was Southern Young Gun. Here is the thread:

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/panfi...vation-10.html

Of course you know more about bluegill than I do - I bet you've studied them all of ten minutes. You have zero experience or education in fisheries management, and yet you blithely dismiss research done by fisheries biologists when in truth you don't know what the heck you're talking about.

It would be one thing if you made such comments to yourself; but to post them on a public forum read by tens of thousands, where they have the potential to reinforce behavior by other fishermen that will further harm public fisheries, is pretty reprehensible.

As I have already noted multiple times: just because certain regulations are in place in a particular state, does not mean said regulations are what are needed to preserve and enhance the fisheries in that state. It is legal not just on the St. Johns, but every water body in Florida, to keep fifty bluegill per day per angler; a person who thinks can probably deduce that the state of Florida has not put a lot of time into adjusting bluegill regulations to specific water bodies. A thinking person might also realize that it is not required ever to have done a study on bluegill population dynamics, to become a biologist for the state of Florida; this same thinking person might then conclude that perhaps, just perhaps, fisheries scientists who have studied bluegill on a hundred different lakes, to use just one study that I linked to as an example, might know a little more about bluegill than someone who has never studied bluegill at all.

I have fished the Apalachicola three times and the St. Johns twice, and I would wager a good amount of money that I could go down there right now and catch as many or more bluegill in three days' fishing than any guide or angler you wish to choose, including yourself. You didn't even reply to my observations about Lake Perris and Skinner in California because those are large water bodies and they completely eviscerate your argument.