Small mouth in strawberry

[doggonefishin]

I have zero enthusiasm for smallies in strawberry. I do think that they would affect the top end weight gain of the cuttthroats if they become established but the bigger issue here is the smallies themselves. Some of us put these fish on a pedestal and deservedly so when you hook up a good one, but they have a real potential to stunt themselves just like the reviled perch. This very thing happened to my favorite smallie lake in Colorado. Catching endless numbers of potato chip thin smb gets boring in a big hurry. The issue I have with bucket biologists is that they exhibit two undesirable traits. These guys exhibit arrogance (I know more than the dwr) and selfishness (I want smallies/perch/walleyes/etc here and screw the trout fisherman). We all pay the price for these attitudes, as do the fisheries.
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