I tagged my first fish on Dec. 11, 2002 and thus far have tagged 1,411 reds or specks, most of which were undersized. Of these 39 have been caught a 2nd time, most within 100 yards of where I caught it, different years and different seasons. The furthermost one traveled was from Big Rabbit Island to Lake Machent. In my opinion, as long as I'm going to have to release the fish, due to the size, may take a minute to tag the fish so that the Wild Life agency can get some info. from this. I thought I'd tagged a lot of fish but there is a Dr. from Lafayette that tagged over 1,000 fish in one year.
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