Well, you touched on a subject that I believe, in that size limits are the way to maintain a healthy fishery by keeping quality fish in the lake to reproduce. I have fished Dale Hollow and Laurel Lake since the mid 70,s I saw Dale Hollow die from over harvest & tournaments and I saw it reborn with the 18" size limit now the 21". I do fish tournaments and have caught numerous limits of smallmouth over 20lb. in the last 2 years on Laurel Lake..With the best limit March 25 of this year in the Midwest tournament of 5 smallmouth that weighed 25.54lbs. This has been accomplished by size limits. I think the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife have been doing a good job lately to protect our resource. I think one of the things we could do as tournament fishermen is to have tournaments where there are no dead fish weighed,,that single rule would be the best for the fish,,not necessarily the fishermen. I am seeing a decline in the smallmouth at Laurel just this year due to increased pressure and the winter time practice of using a popeye jig and a minnow..Alot of these guys are keeping these big winter time smallmouth,,so in my opinion,,,the best thing to do is to cut back on the number of fish that can be kept,,,whether that be addition size limits or two fish per person per day .Just my opinion based on facts,,,John