Thank you Bill. That may even help me out in my situation. Initially I was told to harvest LMB when they get to 14" for large BG, and some of mine are getting very close to that. I suppose that's why the yellow perch are suffering. Perhaps I will start harvesting some of those 12-14" and see how that affects the YP in the next few years. I can only imagine that will let more BG populate for harvesting?