DWR ----says keep fish

[utahgolf]

we'll leave yuba out of this, because management of yuba is too hard with water level and I believe the division was 3 years too late if they wanted to prevent anything... and the spawn the last two years down there has been poor. But again, very hard to predict what to do at yuba....

so, not talking about a specific lake, I'm more trying to understand the basic concept of your broad statement, "The problem is that the water grew the big fish without the regulations." How can you make such a statement without factoring in pressure/harvest before and after? If pressure/harvest remains constant, than yes, your broad statement is true. But if pressure/harvest increases exponentially, then you can throw that statement out the window. Imagine only having 20,000 deer hunters in utah. Well lets say we can now have a two deer limit. Well imagine deer hunting grows in popularity, and there's a 100,000 deer hunters. Well we should have no problem keeping the 2 deer limit because the herd thrived under such regulations.. Would that ring true? The broad statement of leave regs the same cause that's what grew them, doesn't make any sense if pressure/harvest changes greatly. Trying to wrap my head around that. Help!
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