ok, Here's my rant. I have been fishing for smallmouth for 35 years, I watch the meat fisherman destroy smallmouth fishing at Dale Hollow in the late 80;s to the point that we had to have these special regulations to provide a good sport fishery. These meat hogs that some of you guys want to defend can successfully destroy a sport fishery for smallmouth by using live bait in the winter time and cheap electonics will do the job to locate the fish and they will take their limit every time that they can catch them..There has been eye witness accounts of this happening at Laurel Lake this past winter with 2 meat hogs catching and keeping over 100 bass this winter. The average weight of a keeper at Laurel in the winter months is about 4 lbs., so how can you defend somebody that would do such a criminal act as keeping 400 lbs of smallmouth. The same thing is going on at Cumberland and if things dont change than you can say that we are managing our smallmouth bass fishery just for a small minority of meat hogs who are doing the most damage to our smallmouth fishery