While you are looking for those two studies, see if you can find one
that gives an idea how many of those bass released at the dock live.
It is my guess that organized tournament fishing depleats bass much
faster than bed fishing.

On the small lake that I live on, Pomme de Terre in Missouri, we can
have as amny as 20 tournaments on some weekends. That is just too
damn many boats and too much organized fishing for any lake. The bass
population is down drastically from 5 years ago. The crappie
population, which has not seen the same increase in pressure, is
holding its own.

We were once a great bass lake. Today we are a fair crappie lake.

Win