Yeah, I know… I just hope that if the precedence of a 1 per season limit is alreaady set, as part of matching the management plans goal of reducing the exploitation rate, that they won't ignore the other parts of the management plan that call for protecting fish till they have spawned enough times… 10 year olds are 50+ in a LOT of waters in Michigan…

It's a good thing we are here to remind them of all of these things [smilie=bud.gif] The tough part sometimes is when you show them data, because of the whole "scientifically significant" crap, they can dismiss pretty much anything. But, in reality without surveying every fish in a given system there's no "significance" to any fisheries data, it's entirely statistical. A good example is the age distribution data that they put out on Black Lake, and it shows entire year classes missing and a lack of all but one fish over 13 years old. The outlier was 17. But when you point out the trends in the data, they point to not having enough to be scientifically relevant. It causes me to drink heavily.