As always, the regs are chasing a receding tide. They usually wind up doing what they should have done a few years before, and when they finally get them in it's too late to stop further loss of the fishery, so then they have to tighten them up yet again. At this point, I've pretty much resigned myself to never seeing good SB fishing in my lifetime fishing window. I'm guessing it would take a decade for the fishery to recover with any kind of reasonable measures, and by that time I'll be too old to bother. At least, like a lot of people on this board, I have many happy memories during the restoration about 15 or 20 years ago. Will have to fish for something else in the coming years.
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