Yes I've read everyone of your posts. Bass champs, TTZ and smaller clubs. And you said limit hooks and time in the water. That's why I kept saying you can't keep over 25. The live bait boys at the coast were still bringing in limits of trout and reds. The ones everybody i know knew of that we're bitching were guys fishing artificials. Now you load up drive 2 to 6 hours to get down there and can only keep a handful of fish. I think social media paints a picture that has always been there it's just getting exposed. And there's two sides to an argument so mine would be.I don't want to tell my daughter how it used to be. More laws lead to more laws, and I'd hate to see where we end up.

I have never kept more than 25 keeper sized cats and like I said, I jugline just for fun, so most of the time I keep none, I'm usually Crappie fishing and just toss some jugs to watch from the brushpile we are fishing, because I like to catch big cats on jugs (even though I haven't caught many). I have lost a jug once in high wind & waves and found it the next weekend with a dead 3 lb fish. Felt terrible because it was one of the only times we have left them unattended and sure enough we lost one. I also agree with the post that said what about guides taking 3-4 limits of fish a day 200 to 300 days a year?

Used to be a bunch of guides that only allowed fish under 10 pounds to be kept. But they had to change that because some of their clients said they paid to catch big fish and they were keeping them. So the guides changed because they like to eat and buy new boats.

No one group is causing lake catfish populations to change (if they are changing). I think a lot of the problem is a few people know how to catch fish, and a bunch don't know how so that small group is being blamed.

I saw the picture, and it was a guide wasn't it? How many clients did he have on those trips? Do you think guides need to be banned? How about guides only allowed to catch and release? Did those guides use trotlines? Did they use jugs? Are they the problem?

Any bets on how much longer this thread gets to stay here?

Its real simple to fix cut the limits down on all the lakes On all the fish

And also add in a slot limit!

And big10. I guess some people just cant see through the forest on here about what the post is all about. I think its be stated enough times by several of the same members of the forum postin under this topic over and over!

Im all for catch and release of any blue or yella over 15 pounds. Hell i run lines on the river every weekend for three months in a row and its purposly for CATCH and RELEASE of any blue or yella over 15 pounds!