02-26-2007, 11:50 AM
The cuts are getting bigger. If you think back to before the slot regs. there was a one cutt over 18 inch limit. And you would catch 50 fish and have 1 or 2 over the 18 inch limit. Lots of 16 to 18 inchers. Now half the fish I catch are in that 18 to 22 inch size. with 1 or 2 over the 22 inch upper end of the slot. The fish seem to push the upper end of the limit.
In my opionion I think too many people harvest that 22 1/4 inch cutt. If you look at the stocking reports and look at how many rainbows are stocked there should be a higher percentage of them in a daily catch. But no protection so the Im taking a fish home crowd (nothing against them they have the right to take them) harvests every rainbow they catch. I believe if you added a slot limit on the rainbows you would get a lot more rainbows to the upper end of that slot, but not many more than now above that protected size.
I would like to seethe fish protected to 30 inches. But a slot adjusted up to say 25 inches, but at the same time raise the lower end of the slot to say 17 or 18 so that the catch and keep crowd would still be able to take some fish home. Protect them longer and let more people have the chance to catch that true fish of a lifetime. Strawberry has fast growth rate. I read a report about 5 years after they poisoned it last that compared the growth rate to Bear Lake. And fingerlings in strawberry grow to 18 inches in three years were as fingerlings in Bear Lake take 8 to 10 years to reach that size.
Would'nt it be amazing to have a real good chance at a ten plus pound cutt or rainbow every single time you went fishing at the Berry.
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In my opionion I think too many people harvest that 22 1/4 inch cutt. If you look at the stocking reports and look at how many rainbows are stocked there should be a higher percentage of them in a daily catch. But no protection so the Im taking a fish home crowd (nothing against them they have the right to take them) harvests every rainbow they catch. I believe if you added a slot limit on the rainbows you would get a lot more rainbows to the upper end of that slot, but not many more than now above that protected size.
I would like to seethe fish protected to 30 inches. But a slot adjusted up to say 25 inches, but at the same time raise the lower end of the slot to say 17 or 18 so that the catch and keep crowd would still be able to take some fish home. Protect them longer and let more people have the chance to catch that true fish of a lifetime. Strawberry has fast growth rate. I read a report about 5 years after they poisoned it last that compared the growth rate to Bear Lake. And fingerlings in strawberry grow to 18 inches in three years were as fingerlings in Bear Lake take 8 to 10 years to reach that size.
Would'nt it be amazing to have a real good chance at a ten plus pound cutt or rainbow every single time you went fishing at the Berry.
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