03-28-2014, 09:49 PM
Protecting large fish is certainly Not what is happening at the 12" mark.
The slot seems to be perfectly acceptably at Strawberry where virtually every cut is in the slot. As the fish grew the slot got bigger and bigger. This satisfied who, the DWR's claim to a have managed a trophy fishery for Cutthroat.
That is all that cliff want's, and the slot seems to have been the hub of the Strawberry success.
My point is that the SMB limit needs to be increased on all waters but at some point retaining large fish appeals to the purist fisherman who will never keep a fish, and wants to catch them over and over again. Catching large fish appeals to all parties even those whose intentions are to harvest a full limit of smaller fish.
Utahs only trophy fishery resulting from DWR planning, Strawberry is the result of a very restrictive slot!!!
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The slot seems to be perfectly acceptably at Strawberry where virtually every cut is in the slot. As the fish grew the slot got bigger and bigger. This satisfied who, the DWR's claim to a have managed a trophy fishery for Cutthroat.
That is all that cliff want's, and the slot seems to have been the hub of the Strawberry success.
My point is that the SMB limit needs to be increased on all waters but at some point retaining large fish appeals to the purist fisherman who will never keep a fish, and wants to catch them over and over again. Catching large fish appeals to all parties even those whose intentions are to harvest a full limit of smaller fish.
Utahs only trophy fishery resulting from DWR planning, Strawberry is the result of a very restrictive slot!!!
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