Awww, man. You're way too generous in your comments. I think what you're really seeing here is 10% me, doing lots of observing and record keeping, combined with 90% gleaning from greats like Bill Cody, Dave Willis, Bob Lusk and Cecil Baird. Scientific literature is really the backbone for any fisheries knowledge and I've contributed zero. I can't tell you how many times I made an observation, then an assumption, then read scientific literature and found out that I was dead wrong. Then after reassessment, found a much more elegant reason for what I was seeing.
Sometimes I get on a roll and can regurgitate some of it.
