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It doesn't take many years of poor to nonexistent hatches to really reduce the population, just take the Lake Erie situation where the walleyes were almost extinct, we are not over harvesting here but in a sence it's the same thing. 150 boats with 6 fish in the live well like BS mentioned the gobies and gill are thanking each and every guy out there, next year they will have 2-3 fish in the well, and the following year there might be some no fish boats. They can make the walleye legal size 18" from the first island of the Black River and above the dam 15" but they can't put a no catch and release on certain lake? I don't get it.

Sea horse, isn't that from the 60's?

You'll be going through fishing withdrawal till then Fleet, that sucks. Just think of all the big Yankee $$$ you'll be making.

Are you meaning a free slider or something else?

Damn right Frogger!! I'll take that day any time, congrats to you minion and anyone else on your boat!!

Larry if it thunders there's going to be lightning, please come off the water then, there's no fish worth your life, your friend. PAP

Way to go fella's great job by all!!! Kudo's to the Missdemeaner and crew, work together like a team-win together as a team!!

They squashed that, there is an article on here that states they will not pursue that part. I think the thread is " couple of pics of bass catch and release" or something like that.

There are a lot of guys telling me the smallies aren't in the numbers they used to be, but the ones they are catching are all nice. So the stories go, since the smallies are supposed to be feasting on the gobies are they just that much harder to catch or are the bigger ones nasty enough to keep the gobies from destroying there nest. I watched a show on the fishing channel saying there worried about the smallie population in Lake Ontario, they claim there is 1 gobie for every 2 square foot of lake floor, it showed the smallies totally exhaust themselves to the point of death to protect their nest is this what's happening? I don't know. Maybe the large mouth are doing well, oh one other thing they mentioned about the gobies is they are seeking deeper water than what they originally thought also, I know I caught them out in 30-40ft but they are claiming they are deeper. When the bass are on the nest you can catch them with a bare hook for gods sake why do this to give the gobie more of the upper hand. My brother-in-law is a semi-pro bass angler and last year won a new bass boat and he wins the Beltzville lake tournaments all the time, if you can win on Beltzville Lake you got your $hit together, and he comes up to our camp a few times a year, and he notices a decline in his catch ratio. He normally has 18-25 fish days last year his best day was 6. Yes there's always other factors that come into play, I'm just using him as an example. I don't fish for the large mouth but the smallies are a fun fish to catch, pound for pound I think they got it.