Originally Posted by
goterdone1;32078u05
From being in the tackle business in the past , the people that buy their license and permits could give a damn about huge fish , they want to catch fish , 1 3 pounder,no, they want a basket full of 10 and 11 inch fish, that makes their day or their kids day . The wildlife dept. does a great job at determining what lakes need limits or lengths based not on fishing pressure alone but all factors like a lake with stripers or big blues or flathead birds and animals all eat fish and a lot more than any fishing pressure that the public put on them . lakes like Granada may have 3+ lb. fish but may not have big cats or stripers or even pelicans , this argument has been going on for 40 plus years that I am aware of just in this state . 40 years ago I was saying the same thing as others about small crappie in lake thunderbird until I fished with a man named Bob Brown , inventor of fishmaster fishing tubes that had no problem catching 2 and 3 lb. crappie, I was humbled , OETA even did a show on him back than , like Bob told me ,the fish are there , learn to catch them ! I was sold, I still have one of his original tubes .