Trout Limits

["W"]

I agree on the 14inch trout size limit!! Dont think 15 trout per person is necessary but I like the 15 trout limit!!! I release a ton of trout a year and keep a lot of trout per year!!! In what I learned is if you manage a good healthy estuary you fish take care of them selves!! One of the most Knowledgeable guides on Big Lake wanted to keep the 25 trout per person!!! He said you can only hold so many trout in one area and you will never fish them out with rod n reel

I think if you lower your trout limites to low then you will over pouplate your area!!
Take a crawfish pond for example....You must take crawfish out of you pond everyday to get them to grow in size....If you dont take out the right number in a given area you will have overload with small crawfish.....

Same with trout!!! Most lay eggs under 14inch and there are millions of trout 14inchs and under!!! I think too many trout willl shrink your size per trout as small ones eat up the food resource quicker!!! Thats my outlook!!!!

[cmdrost]

Originally Posted by "W"

I agree on the 14inch trout size limit!! One of the most Knowledgeable guides on Big Lake wanted to keep the 25 trout per person!!! He said you can only hold so many trout in one area and you will never fish them out with rod n reel

That same guide has been quoted as saying that a 15 trout limit was the best thing to ever happen to Big Lake.

But I agree with you, that you have to correctly manage the population.

["W"]

Originally Posted by cmdrost

That same guide has been quoted as saying that a 15 trout limit was the best thing to ever happen to Big Lake.

But I agree with you, that you have to correctly manage the population.

I love the 15 trout limit myself!! Don't get me wrong!! I have been fishing Big Lake for 25 years and I find you have GOOD years and Bad Years!!! The one thing I dont like on our lake is the Weirs!!! They should let it flow like mother nature wanted it to!!! Put rock to keep erosion down but dont manage the water flow!!!! Im just a fisherman what do I know!!!