yes my earlier post was in jest, I have about a dozen pool noodle jugs in the garage that I use occassionally when I am wanting some fillets for the table. This being said there is no fishery that is invulnerable to overfishing, an example of this would be the ocean. If everyone started pulling each fish from the gene pool for food we would never be able to keep up with demand and it would become a put-n-take fishery. Kentucky is in the middle of the road as far as growing seasons go, some years are better than others, which provides little room for error for determining creel/size limits . I don't think you can use the studies on bass and the resulting regs for the catfish population, for starters it is rare to see a bassfisherman take a trophy bass from the lake and eat it, whereas there usually is no qualms about catching catfish for tablefare as a matter of fact I would venture to say 75-80% of catfishing is just for that very purpose (just a guess). There just isn't the interest or the money allotted for catfish as there is for the more "popular" species, not whining about it just stating a fact. It would be nice to some size and creel guidelines put into place for the whole of KY including the OH R., nothing super restrictive just something that prohibits the decimation of a fish population. my $.01.