Thoughts on slot limits

[66Birdman]

I totally agree with that idea. Dont stop with bass though. The crappie, perch, bluegill and catfish would also do well with a limit like that. Idaho is decades behind the rest of the country on size and creel limits in my opinion. Lets take bluegill for example (I am a huge fan being from the midwest). I dont think folks realize how much the population of those lil buggers affects the rest of the ecosystem. It is very easy for them to get out of wack with over harvest, under harvest (of themselves and predator species), loss of spawning area (like the dredging and cutting of trees at cottonwood or folks using every lil sandy bank at CJ as a swimming beach) and things of the like. I realize I am not a biologist and the water systems up here are differant than Missouri but I find it hard to believe that Idaho is the only state that has "self regulating" populations of panfish and catfish with no involvement from fish and game.

p.s. This is probably gonna get pretty ugly
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