This was emailed to me yesterday! Which even further backs my statement of you will never fish out trout with rod n reel...
If you keep your estuary healthy,your trout population will remain healthy....Its 2 + 2 math...
What is going to kill Big Lake in the long run is our controlled marsh. When you interrupt mother nature you are bound to destroy something! Rita was a sign that no matter what man builds she can take away any time!
Which then go back to the 15 trout limit( Again I like the limit) but we have no proof to show this was needed! Ship channel is home to millions of trout along with a constant flow of new gulf water daily.
15 trout limit is plenty of fish for anyone person but in the long run will it help? I personally dont think so due to the fact of: you can only hold so many fish in one bowl.
Since the 15trout limit was applied can anyone tell me what is different? No more bigger fish than normal and over the last 10years this lake does not know what big fish are. Back when my dad was in his 20"s-30's and some of your dads will tell you. Going to big lake was a automatic 100trout and most were in the 3-5lb range. Pictures of my dad and grandpa with a table full of trout over 6lbs up to 8 or maybe 9lbs. Talk to anyone who fished the lake in the 80:s and early 90"s and they will tell you what big trout were.
Who knows what kind of sizes were being caught in those days ,because I know my grandpa was going to eat a 10lb trout and never look back on how much it weighed. As many old timers on that lake use to do.
Go sit down with the guys who ran gill nets and let them tell you story's about monster trout and numbers of them. They will tell you a 10lb was common and probably caught ones up to 14lbs.
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