Cumberland.. tomorrow

[know1]

Easy big fella I didn't mean to rile you up there. I too will eat Kentuck's and love'em about 10 to 12 inches long, hmmm good. I never keep largemouth or smallmouth bass, and I obvisously read your post wrong. It had the sound of a bunch of keepers being kept, which I guess really isn't my business either. I'm just passionate about Catch and release and promote it whenever I can. Sorry for the misunderstanding, take care.

Not trying to start anything, but I never understood why a KY is acceptable, but a LM and SM isn't. I don't keep any of them, so I'm just asking.

[Cajun78]

Not trying to start anything, but I never understood why a KY is acceptable, but a LM and SM isn't. I don't keep any of them, so I'm just asking.

Probably 'cause there are lots of em.

Thanks for all the tips. I will be going back on the weekend and giving it another try.

[mhall]

Not trying to start anything, but I never understood why a KY is acceptable, but a LM and SM isn't. I don't keep any of them, so I'm just asking.

O.K. here goes and I hope this makes sense. According to the fishery biologist here in the state they encourage the keeping of Spotted bass. This is the reason there is no size limit on them, although they do have the same creel limit of six per day as do the other black bass species. The reason they want people to keep them is the fact thy are much more of a prolific reproducer than that of large or smallmouth. This creates at times an overpopulation and food competion issue with the more desired target species of smallmouth or largemouth. Kentuckies generally don't grow as large as the others and take alot longer to achieve their size. I usually let everything go but will keep the spots at times to eat. I had a fishery biologist tell me at Cumberland once to keep and eat every spot I caught because I was doing the lake service when I did. His words not mine, hopefully this helps a bit.

[know1]

O.K. here goes and I hope this makes sense. According to the fishery biologist here in the state they encourage the keeping of Spotted bass. This is the reason there is no size limit on them, although they do have the same creel limit of six per day as do the other black bass species. The reason they want people to keep them is the fact thy are much more of a prolific reproducer than that of large or smallmouth. This creates at times an overpopulation and food competion issue with the more desired target species of smallmouth or largemouth. Kentuckies generally don't grow as large as the others and take alot longer to achieve their size. I usually let everything go but will keep the spots at times to eat. I had a fishery biologist tell me at Cumberland once to keep and eat every spot I caught because I was doing the lake service when I did. His words not mine, hopefully this helps a bit.

Well...that makes more sense to me. Good explanation.

[jcb]

KYs are much better tasting, also, IMO. I brought a few home last weekend and they were as good as anything you can get in a restaurant.

[know1]

KYs are much better tasting, also, IMO. I brought a few home last weekend and they were as good as anything you can get in a restaurant.

See, that's another thing I do not understand. KYs and LMs are so similar that it seems they'd have to taste the same (if they were of similar size and from the same water).