i know how you feel,the water supply lake here is getting hammered,evrytime i go someone has a few around 3 and a 5 or 6,going home with them.if you aske why they keep the big ones to eat instead of the 16 inchers they litterally want to whip your assss and tell you how they have the right to keep what they want,and they actually think it is overstoked with big ones.
there are guys jug fishing and taking 150 or more cats a weekend out.It had its own pressure conrol,it would get too low to put a boat in about june and it wasn't fished except from the bank til the next spring,the last 2 years it's been full all year and getting whipped.