You can twist the numbers all you want guys and it is awesome to hear the stories of yesterday. The big problem is that everyone wants to play god with our natural resources and only mother nature can make the rules. Look at the bass explosion from Canada to Superior and even the TFF. Bass are growing in numbers in many places. The walleyes on the TFF are still very plentiful. Definately time to stop trying to fix something that isn't broken. Nature will ALWAYS find ITS own balance. Numbers may have been better in the past but nobody will change the fishery as a whole.

Throwing back big fish is the only way to help your odds and help the numbers for reproduction. Eating more bass is what we've tried to do.

I would also like to know how the perch bite has been this year? We haven't had time to fish this year with the little guy taking up all our time. It just seems that in the past few years the perch have gotten less and less? That concerns me a little more. If the primary food source goes down, you will see dramatic changes. Worse yet it will take a few years before the affects are really noticed. So please, someone tell me that they are hammering perch out there somewhere.

We have to look past the prize to play the game.

Thanks for all the awesome knowledge shared in this post.
Feel free to start a new one about the perch bite and maybe some of the other species that need to be monitored.