This topic is still fascinating to me. Someone, I think it was Dave, compared it to managing a pond. That's what I think also, except I consider this pond to be public water. The way I see it, if it's legal, there's no gripe coming. "Meat hunter" or not.
Back to the pond scenario. A few years ago I decided if I was ever going to catch that one pound BG, I would need to produce it myself in one of my own ponds. A 1/2 pound BG in public water will never make it to a pound, if it goes home in a bucket with the first angler who pulls it off a spawning bed....legal or not, great genetics or not. A public resource is just that, public.
High fence, anyone?
