The "Good Old Days"

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Nice write up Pat.  

Thanks for sharing that.

I'm not far behind you age wise and I have shared a lot of the same experiences over the years just with some different waters.  

Even though we reminisce about the good old days we still have some amazing fishing opportunities in our state.  

Gotta agree with you on that.  Even though some of our ponds are not as good as they once were, others are a lot better.  DWR has done an amazing job of management and introducing new species where diversity was needed for establishing a better balance.  Unfortunately, you can't manage the unmanageable.  And with the wild swings of weather, precipitation and other factors fisheries management can be tough.  No matter how much edumacation you have on fisheries management, there is no crystal ball to predict what adverse changes there will be from one year to the next...and DWR has to try to plan a year or more out in the future.  Still, they probably do a better job than a lot of meteorologists in predicting weather.