Smallmouth in Utah

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[quote bassrods]

No lake or water way has ever been helped by fishing the bigger fish out..[/quote]

That's incorrect. You just are looking at things wrong, as usual. Many waters have regulations that encourage the harvest of ANY SIZE fish, including the "bigger fish". You just don't see regulations targeting ONLY those bigger fish because in those scenarios it is beneficial to remove fish of any size. There are lots and lots of lakes that benefit from the removal of those bigger fish.

As has been said many, many times - and many times specifically to Cliff -- is that when you remove a "big" fish you open up a "slot" that a smaller fish quickly fills. This provides that smaller fish the opportunity to enter a "fast growth" period. Most of us understand that we want fish to be in that fast growth range because that's how you get big fish. So, removal of big is very often a beneficial key to growing big fish.


[quote bassrods]

MANAGEMENT how hard is it???[/quote]

management of fish is easy. It's the people (anglers) that are hard to manage.
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