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Originally Posted by Nebe
But once a fish makes it past the upper threshold of the slot limit, it has a get out of jail free card.
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True – on the flip side if you have a one fish limit at 36” all fish have several good spawning years before they can be legally harvested.
I don’t know what the right answer is but I cringe when I think of all the small bass that would likely be killed with an 18-27” slot limit. Every year a few select YOY classes would be getting hammered up and down the coast. These fish are the future of the fishery. How many small fish would be killed each winter in the Housy and Thames river systems alone if people could keep 18” fish? All of these fish are being killed before they have even had a chance to spawn, that just doesn’t sit well with me for some reason.