10-09-2024, 01:52 PM
(10-09-2024, 01:10 PM)wiperhunter2 Wrote: Looks like a great haul Pat and those Willard cats sure are some pretty fish. Strange there were so few folks out on the water, guess a few of them followed us up to Echo, as we saw 9 boats up there. It's a good thing that the wipers moved on, as I was hearing reports of the bucket brigade keeping way more than their limits.Yeah, the "happy harvesters" are usually quick to pass the word among themselves and show up in numbers to do their part to reduce the "over-population" of any species available. I had a report last week of an encounter at the cleaning station. Their were two guys with a "bunch" of small wipers. When confronted, they said there was "no limit on the small ones". Ya gotta wonder where that stuff gets started...and how anyone can be so stupid as to believe it...without checking the regulations.
With the abundance of survivors from last year's heavy planting there is reason for hope that at least the next couple of years will be good for bigger fish. But if enough "bucket bozos" show up in the meantime that will reduce the numbers somewhat.