if you, for one single minute think that cumberland could sustain 100% tournament mortality on smallmouth without a negative impact then you are as out of touch with reality as your "article".
and as far as the statement goes about "lakes being restocked with bass from our sportsmens dollars"????????
i have NEVER seen a kdfwr truck pull up and start dumping smallmouth in to lake cumberland in 45 years of fishing/living on this lake.
NOW, FIND ME ONE FISHERIES BIOLOGIST THAT WILL STATE THAT 100% TOURNAMENT BASS MORTALITY IF SUSTAINED OVER A PERIOD OF TIME WILL NOT HAVE A LONGTERM NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE FISHERY.....I WANT TO TALK TO HIS BOSS, WE NEED TO DRUG TEST HIM
those statements alone reduce the credibility of the rest of the "article'