Quote Originally Posted by mhall View Post
By no means am I trying to say they don't have a right to do what they are doing I'm not that selfish. I think stiffer reg's on the fishing would help alleviate some of the pressure and actually boost our fishing.

I asked this question on an email to the KDFWR a few years ago and it went like this.
Are we managing our lakes for tournaments or are we managing our lakes for quality fish? I got a typical government response and I kind of understood it. I have been blabbing for years now about placing the slot limit on the smallmouth at Cumberland that is at Dale. I keep hearing, it won't work but no one single person can explain to me why it won't work.

I brought it up on here a few years ago and asked why and the best I got was Cumberland isn't Dale Hollow. What the hell does that even mean and it makes NO sense at all. Oh it will work, guaranteed.

In closing I feel our lakes are being pressured to death. A few Saturdays ago there was an estimated 250 to 300 tourney boats on Cumberland at one time. I was told this by a few that were fishing a BFL down there and there was a huge tourney going out of the dam. If that is even close to being true and I think it is how can a lake sustain that much pressure for very long its just crazy.
The world would end if they closed the season on bass, much like they do up north.......Could you even imagine not being able to take a bass off the beds.........

NOT saying I'm an advocate for that, but you know.......it cannot be good for the fishery to pull those fish off the bed, or close to the bed, and throw them in a tank of sub par water, and haul them down a lake 20-40-50 miles away.

I'd love to see the big tourneys go to a catch, weigh, release method, and using digital scales with a marshal.

Later,

Geo