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I agree with oscar 73 about keeping all on a 200 acre southern lake.
Smaller lakes and ponds and hard hit city waters can easily be overfished and in those cases returning largest males to the water will insure a better overall size.
It is interesting that I had a fisheries bioligest at Reelfoot Lake in TN. tell me it is impossible to overfish bluegill also. Bring that same so called expert up here to the midwest and he would get an education in a hurry.
I'm no activist by any means, but in this area ,it is not hard to overfish ANY of the smaller waters. I sure envy your southern bluegill populations. Mike
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Good post! I guess fishing Sam Rayburn and Toledo Bend especially, the size of those lakes must be quite larger than what yall are talking about. Both Rayburn & Toledo are loaded full of big bream, particularly TBend! I usually go once a year to TBend and bring home anywhere from 100-400 (300-400 only happened once) bull bream and it usually is mostly males with some females thrown in...about a 7:3 ratio. If I fished them regularly where I could bring a few home each time I'd go, I probably would be more selective.
I do like fish and would rather eat fish more than beef just due to all the additives in the feeds they give our livestock and poultry nowadays, that's one reason why I hunt so much.
It would be something new to have a daily bag limit placed on bream in Texas, and I should say there was on a little lake called Purtis Creek where all sunfish had to be a minimum of 7". That was removed about 3-4 years ago since it did not prove to enhance their population.
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jimdiana,catch a few and compare.The male's are more colorful and tend to have larger scales.Also you're larger males have a large black lobe at the outside center end of their gill.If still in doubt catch some next month and filet them.See whitch one's have egg's and compare.You will surley notice the difference
