After talking with a couple people that attended the summit and have a relationship with the PFBC, I have a little more optimism that changes may eventually take place. It's not worth arguing about because it will be years before any changes made take effect, if it ever happens. Andy's right...you can't make everyone happy. But, you should do what's best for the majority of anglers and the resources you have available.

I just wanted to clear one thing up to help people form their own educated opinion. Pymatuning is the only broodstock lake in PA that really matters. It has Linesville Hatchery (the best muskie hatchery in the state) right on it. Some of those other little Crawford Co waters may be called broodstock lakes, but they aren't very capable of contributing much. For years, every purebred muskie raised in the state from PA fish, comes from Pymatuning broodstock. The Union City hatchery does trap net some of the other smaller Crawford Co lakes. They don't get enough from them to do any more than cross-breed those muskies with pike to make their allotment of tigers some years. Even their purebreds come from Pymatuning broodstock. Those little lakes would be easily replaced in the muskie production process for our state.