I really don't see any way of making the fishery any better without having some serious restrictions on when you can fish for them and what size you can keep. That is never going to happen. LC is too much of a money maker for those kinds of limits to be put on. Another casualty has been the walleye. I was told by this same friend that it wasn't anything to bring in a string of big walleye. Not one 15 lber on a stringer, but two of them. A friend of his caught an 18 lber. When was the last time anyone caught a walleye even close to that. My personal best out of that lake is 9 lb in 16 yrs of fishing. But I digress. I put personal restrictions on myself. I would rather fish for stripers when I have an option to keep or release and there still aren't any guarantees the fish will live if released. I released a striper that was easily over 20 lb last Nov. that I caught out of some jumps. As far as I know that fish made it because the water temps were ideal for stripers survival. All I know is I know he would have been dead if I kept him or released him in the summer. On a good note, the white bass seem to have made a good come back.