Bill -

Thank you (genuinely) for your well thought replies and influence.

I do not want a “put and take” fishery.

I do not want a fishery that can be angled 10 months (or less) per year, fearing fish mortality in the summer months. We are in lower SC, my pond is shallow and it is gonna get HOT.

I do not want a fishery that I need to feed to make them grow.

I am a traditionalist.

I like the idea of bream that kids can catch year round (or nearly, anyway)

I like LMB. Been catching them for near 65 years.

I am not worrried about being bitten by a bream. Been in fresh water for 68 years and salt for 60 years. No damages yet. Some YIKES moments but no cornerstone ones.

I have tailored the cover in the pond to LMB and bream.

The pond is not all about the fishery. It is about family time and enjoyment.


It seems to me that you potentially take some personal affront at our not embracing hybrid stripers.

I am not contacting Clemson nor SC DNR to ask them to chat with you about what we put in our pond.


I completely recognize your credentials and your history.


What I would have hoped is that you would reply “ok, you are missing the boat on the stripers but here is what I think you can do with bream and bass”……



Respectfully.


Jim

Last edited by Jim Boyd; 12/17/25 08:04 PM.