Quote Originally Posted by twise7 View Post
Just thinking outside the box...has anyone thought that perhaps the reason why you're seeing less and less of the larger sized stripers might be due...in part...to that fact that whenever you catch one of them you put it in your livewell and add to the mortality rate of that particular size of fish?

As a bass angler it never ceases to amaze me that a guy can complain about the lack of "size anymore" when he'll be the first to tell you he will take his legal limit of LM or SM home to eat. My response to his complaint...well DUHHH!!! The bigger fish are no longer in the lake...they're in your belly!!

So taking a stocked fish that doesn't reproduce and putting it in the live well has reduced the population? Well of course, those are probably fish that were going to spawn in Lake Cumberland!!!

The "I am more sportsmen than you are" attitude by some blows me away. The fish are put in there to catch and if they meet the requirements, keep if you like. Jeez, comparing native smallmouth and largemouth to stocked stripers that wouldn't exist there otherwise is like comparing apples to footballs!