The adult lake trout population is way too high IMO. With the two bad year classes from the hard winters, the adult numbers need to be knocked down or the alewives could be in trouble. The DEC knocked the king stocking back to help take the stress off the alewives. They did not up the creel limit on lakers to help take the stress off the population. If everyone sits back and throws all the lakers back, you may not have a king fishery in the future. If the alewive population drops more, you can bet the farm that the Kings will go away before a natural federally funded species. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United