SSKY you always talk bad about having stripers in the river. Well i have to say i do not agree with you one bit. I fish the river for stripers and i must say they do not grow anywhere in the world any faster than in the cumberland river. And as far as the trout go the guys who only fish for striper in the river still must have a trout stamp so we are paying to stock trout that we don't fish for. The state of KY does not protect the stripers at all in the river. They have a rollover limit from the ohio river. If you get down into Tenn. they protect the stripers now because they know how great of a fishery it can be. the limit there is a slot of no fish between 32" and 42" and only 2 fish a day of which only one can be bigger than 42". I would love to see that happen on all of the cumberland. I release all of my fish there and encourage others to do the same. And by the way many people say the river is better for trout now than it ever was. And hasn't the state record been broken twice in recent years. Just seems the stripers don't have the impact that you seem to think they do on the trout. Not looking to create an enemy or anything but just trying to make a point. We probably will never agree on this but someone has to speak for the striper fisherman too.