Originally Posted by
Fishin is life
I think the unusual slot limit was put in place to make the lake a trophy smallmouth fishery. If you keep all the 19-20" brownies from being hauled around in a livewell all day, the better chance they have to grow into trophies. Those big ones are the ones we want reproducing, and we want them to reproduce with the bigger males. See what theyre doing in TX with the share a lunker program using the male offspring of monster females to reproduce with other monster females to try to create a broodstock of giants and putting them back in the waters they came from.
Note: Tournaments and hauling fish in the livewell isnt a huge problem right now, remove the slot on smallies and watch tournies start flocking to Dale like they do to our other lakes