striped bass age versus egg viability

[beachwalker]

Originally Posted by baldwin

Those huge cows may have a smaller percentage of viable eggs, but if they're producing a greater volume of eggs, that may, at least partially, make up for it. Secondly, if even a few of those eggs survive to produce a couple of more fish with those superior genetics, I believe it's worth it. Enough of those excuses to take the best fish out of the gene pool. If you have to kill the fish and show people that you can catch them, you're fishing for the wrong reasons. Give it up and buy some golf clubs.

but I like golf ....?