A few more thoughts on this issue. Stackmaster is exactly right when he said that there are certain people who will catch their legal limit, leave & clean the fish (or give fish to another boat), then come right back for more. And, I’ll bet my boat that just about everyone on this board knows of, or has at least heard of one or more persons who have done so. Granted, this is nothing new … it’s a given that there will always be those who will game the system. What is new though, is the fact that this lower creel limit is going to invite much more of the same. Mark my words, there will be new “gamers” on the lake next year. People who have never exceeded the limit before might now be having second thoughts. I have personally heard as much. If this were to be the case, then it could quite possibly negate any so called (and quite bogus) increase in fish population. So, to all the guides and other greedy self-servers who think they know more than the biologists, as well as their lackey Commissioner and the members of the FWC who voted against their own biologists’ recommendations, be careful of what you wish for… it might just come back and bite you. Personally, I have no intention of gaming the system. I will abide by the rules, even though I think that the manner in which these rules were adopted sucks. It’s well known that cronyism runs deep in Tennessee politics. Obviously, it applies to the TWRA/FWC and fishing as well. Which brings me to my point: If the lakes of Tennessee are going to be ruled by the guides, locals and their lackey commissioners, then why should we incur the expense of hiring fishery biologists? If the guides and self-serving locals are so smart, then we don’t need them, right? Better yet, just do away with the entire fish and wildlife commission and let the local mobs rule…since that’s pretty much what we have now anyway. Or, would the public be better served if TWRA were to use their own research and analysis to establish creel limits, size limits, etc.? We don’t have a say on how many turkey or deer we can harvest, so why should fishing be any different? At a minimum, it will take the stupidity out of the rule making process.