Fish stories are just that fish stories, don't expect me to believe any of it.

If the fish are in the water someone will catch it and turn them in for the record. A healthy fisheries will also have good number of large fish that are approaching the record size. People will catch them.

Per lake Lewisville, I said it before in another thread, not just catfish, white bass, hybrid bass, all come out, small, long and skinny, definitely not a sign of healthy fisheries.

But the lake records are the strongest evidence on how fish grow at the upper end of the scale. For a lake that produced a 90 lb flathead, 63# is at about midsized for blue catfish, yet no one broke that record for 15 years.

Fish stories like yours fluctuate as wide as the grand Canyon, there are stories that fisheries are in decline throughout texas (even at Tawakoni) at one extreme end, and there are stories that a guy catch lake records 20-30 times in last 4 months on the other extreme end. I'll take anecdotal fish stories with a few grains of salt.

Bankfisher-welcome to my ignore button-you are not the least bit interesting to me with your thoughts on this matter-enjoy your turmoil-
Bye-

The world needs ditch diggers too!!

Is there a delete button for people who just want to argue and try to talk down to people?

You posted 4 times in this thread all of them I have ignored because there is nothing constructive or relevant in them. Why don't you invite yourself out of my thread? Unless, you have some relevant things to say, then by all means state your points intelligently.

Well let's see.....I posted a thread with a petition on it and you joined the forum just to go on a thread looking for support to a worthy cause just to bash it and tell people how wrong it is. I (as I think most did)considered your ramblings as closed minded needless verbal vomit. Now, you see why I put dumb comments on yours? If you can't take your own medicine perhaps you shouldn't give it. Your "thoughts" are nothing more than copy and paste articles that mean nothing for conservation. Rather the thought of "there are plenty of fish today, so they will he there forever."

If you disagree you can state your view intelligently, and provide support to back up your points of views.

There is no use trying to get someone like you to listen to anything. I get better listening from my basset hound. That is all. Closed minded ignorance is free. That is my last statement to you ever. Have a nice time ranting.

bankfisher50,i want to thank you for posting this thread,but as u can see, no matter what you try and tell some of these cpr people (that condemn my rights as a fisherman) , you will never get thur their one way minded thinking that its okay to eat a 50# fish out of taw.

You are quite welcome sir, I'm sorry that those misguided (pun intended )catfish vigilantes said those unkind words to you especially those who questioned how you raise your children, those vigilantes remind me of the the Talibans. But as you said in your post you had done nothing wrong. Just keep taking those kids fishing, enjoy your fish as you have. Don't worry about those cpr people, it's just a carried over culture from bass fishing which does not apply to blue catfish and that is the main point of this thread. Keep fishing sir, the science is on your side, the law is on your side. Don't let mean people ruin paradise, BTW, fish were biting yesterday.