Quote Originally Posted by dabassking View Post
I think that managing a lake for tournaments and managing a lake for quality fish can be one and the same. We live in KY. A 15" bass IS a quality fish in this state. It's not like 5 pounders are as much common place in lakes here as compared to Guntersville, Chick, or lakes in Florida and Texas. Dale Hollow is regulated to be a Trophy Smallmouth lake. Cumberland has an 18" size limit on SM and that is, without a doubt, a quality fish. I think a lot of you guys that want a slot limit on Cumberland only want it to run off the tournament guys. It won't! Look at Dale. It gets heavy tournament pressure and it has a slot limit.

Also, if you look at the tournament pressure that the previously mentioned lakes like Guntersville and Chickamauga get, you would see that the pressure put on Cumberland is not even close to theirs.
Your wrong about me I want the slot for several reasons.

1. To increase the average size and increase the number of quality fish. I love catching 18 smallmouth I have caught more than you can haul in a truck but 21 inch plus fish make me MUCH happier.
2. It will stop the 400 million Striper guides clients from taking every 18 inch fish home to a skillet they catch. Believe me that is huge on that lake. BTW I am not slamming the guides they are doing what is legal and most encourage their clients to release these fish but most do not.
3. And this is dead last to decrease some of the tournaments and yes it will slow them down just like it did at Dale and still is to a degree.