Crappie,

I agree with you some fish need to be taken from the water. I would not take big fish, ones that are picture worthy to eat. I would prefer for those fish to remain in the lake so that the breeding stock stays up so that is is not overrun with the dink dna that you refer to that will start to over populate a fishing area.

Furthermore here in Indiana I have been on very few fisheries that are so over populated with bass that it is creating an issue with big bass kill offs. On the otherhand there are plenty of lakes in Indiana that are struggling to build a bass population to make the fishery more viable. 16 inches at raccon 20 inches at turtle creek just to name a few. Are these restrictions in place because of the over abundance of large fish in the lake? or is this to protect the small and dwindling population of bass in the lakes.

I am not an animal activist I love to kill and eat deer, on the other hand I prefer to kill a doe because it tastes better and I would prefer to let the big bucks keep on mating so that my kids will have the ability to see them in the wild instead of on a ranch or dead on the highway.

Just like Marie Antoinette said let them eat cake. Well let them eat panfish.