what y'all make of this?

[keakar]

Originally Posted by MathGeek

"Generally speaking, you'll see fewer big fish at first," he said. "It takes four years to grow a big (speckled trout). If we're cropping more fish at a smaller size, then obviously fewer of them will have the chance to get big."

This is the biggest lie in wildlife management today. Fast growth rates are more essential to producing big speckled trout than protecting younger fish. In most Gulf coast estuaries, plenty of speckled trout survive to 4, 5, and 6 years of age. FL and TX produce more fish over 10 lbs, not because of higher survival rates to the older ages, but because of higher growth rates in the estuaries that produce a lot of trophy trout.

If you want more trophy trout, it is more essential to protect their forage base.

exactly and if you reduce limits you will have even less big fish because there wont be enough food for them to grow big.

instead of talking limits they should be talking increasing food stocks and creating more food supply.

this old article has been regurgitated every few years by those who want to limit everyone to 5 or 10 specks to be the same as other states for no reason at all just because it makes em feel good to "help the environment".

even bob marshal was spewing this load of manure in the paper and online justifying it solely on the basis that nobody is taking pictures with really big trout anymore. what a load of hooey.

science says if we take more fish out of the water then the ones left will get bigger because they will have an abundant food supply for them to grow. but NOBODY will promote increasing limits but everyone always wants to reduce limits no matter if it helps or not.

DO WHAT THE SCIENCE SAYS YOU NEED TO DO - that's all that is needed