Originally Posted by ewest
A quality lake/pond requires proper harvest in conjunction with natural mortality. Catch and release can be just as bad as keeping them all. A BG/LMB pond with only hook and line (fishing) as the method of harvest will move toward uncatchable fish quickly (3 generations). Lots here on these subjects.

Yes, I agree with that, I was referring to anthropic's mention of Lake Jackson, which I assume is a public BoW, and people harvesting too many trophies from it back in the day.


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