Quote Originally Posted by jastew View Post
That being said...taking a bass off a bed is no different than keeping it at another time of the year. It's gone regardless. It doesn't matter when you take it out of the population.
This just seems counter-intuitive to me.

Scenario A, you keep a female 2 days before she spawns out.

Scenario B, you keep a female after she spawns out.

Under Scenario A, that's X number of bass removed from the population, isn't it? Some fry will die off due to predation and other factors, but others won't.