Ky Trophy, Randall, awesome post and dead on the money in my opinion. I have been preaching some stiffer Regs on the bass especially smallmouth for several years now. I usually get called out and told I'm way off base, it's good to see a well known guide ''IN THE KNOW'', feel like something might need to be done as well.

Also I have read many many articles pertaining to stripers and their eating habits. According to everything published by Biologists, their main diet consists off of baitfish. I have also had three different guides on Cumberland who fish for these fish everyday and clean them almost every day tell me they only see shad in their bellies. A study conducted on Sante Cooper by fishery biologist one year involves capture and harvest of alot of stripers. They also got the public involved and local fisherman and discovered it was quite rare to find bass in the bellies of stripers.

Do some research online it's out there and see that most states agree that the diet of a striper is 90% plus baitfish and not other gamefish.