Well two things, first of all, you're correct, that man doesn't need that many fish IMO. The only credible answer he could give you is if he were planning a fish fry for thirty or forty friends and family...that would be about the only acceptable answer IMO.

Number two, you say they were big bluegill and big redear. What's big?? If you're talking eight inch bluegill and nine inch redear, that doesn't impress me much. I went to Barkley Lake in the spring and we threw back nine inch redear while routinely catching 11, 12 and a couple of monster 13in redear. That was my point of the original post, create a lake that's big enough to become a trophy lake. Ky Lake and Barkley Lake are trophy lakes and both are HUGE bodies of water as are the Mississippi crappie lakes that are trophy lakes. A twenty or thirty thousand acre body of water is massive. They old saying big lake ='s big fish is actually true.

Indiana fisherman deserve better or we'll continue to travel out of state with our money.