Doug wrote:


The possible implications are food for thought, such as Bass populations
declining in a particular watershed to a point of where it could effect the
entire balance of the system, simply by releasing the fish in another
location. It's rare that they make it back home after weigh in.


http://www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/publi.../largebass.pdf

Thoughts? Opinions?

Doug


I'm really taxing my rememberer here,(do you smell wood burning?) but I
seem to recall an article several years back on the Texas Parks and
Wildlife website about tagging bass to see if they hung around weigh-ins
at Lake Fork. I've tried searching for the article but can't locate it.
This study showed them returning to the area they were caught in rather
quickly, even when released miles away. It impressed me because I had
expected the opposite result.