Quote Originally Posted by brokentrail
Now this I disagree with...The throw it back mentality isn't a bad one but it has its drawbacks as well. Look at The Moses Lake are lakes walleye populations, hence why you now how a more liberal limit and less size restrictions. I am all for managing a fishery but that's why we have biologists to tell us what we can keep and what we can't. They know way more about fish populations than we ever will I'm afraid...

Just my $0.02 USD
I'm with you, I've seen too many beaver ponds swarming with stunted 6" brook trout when they would of had healthy populations of 12-18inchers if they had been regularly thinned out. There is a reason that we can keep 5 brookies and only 2 rainbows/browns.