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Originally Posted by yak'em-n-stack'em

What is to gain by depleting breeding stock to freeze fish that are too big to taste as good as a 15-20 inch fish.

Most of you who are saying you don't care aren't the ones who are targeting trophy trout. You are filling a freezer. That's fine if that's what you want to do.
But what you don't understand is
BIG FISH BREED BIG FISH

Go ahead and kill the big ones and tell me how that affects trophies in the next few years

Every fish caught is breeding stock if you think about it. Every fish of legal size is big enough to breed the next season whether they are 14" or 30" fish. No science says big fish breed other big fish. Big fish are OLD fish, simple as that. IF big fish bred big fish, then with ALL this catch and release crap that has been going on with bass fishing in the last 20 years or so, wouldn't the world record be broken at least once a year. The record was set by an old man in Georgia a LONG time ago, and he ATE IT