It should be no great surprise that it's true the fishing at Diamond has reverted to 8-10" stockers. That 8 fish limit with use of bait allowed resulted in mobs of meat hogs playing C&R with bait culling
for the larger fish till they all gone to the fry pan. The limit is OBSCENE for any F&G...
Sounds like you played a little catch and release with bait! While Oregon F&G is one of the last backward agencies to not prohibit it,
it should be every sportsman's job to discourage it. Hooking mortality studies done by several state agencies indicate the mortality of
released fish using...
Because of the law of diminishing returns as the fry are thinned out, and the abundance of other foods in East.. There will be plenty enough survival of the fry (who tend to hide in the weeds or shallow water) that the mortality of adults from Browns and natural causes will be replaced each...
It's great that we have a new strain of RB's to fish for. But from my experiences in Canada the Blackwater strain has little chance of denting the chub population if the Browns haven't by now. They just eat the very young fry and I've never seen one with anything over 1" or so in it's belly. It...