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Old 01-24-2022, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Penner View Post
Lakers make for poor table fair. I find it damn near criminal that the large lakers in Cold Lake have been all but fished out. A 20lb laker could over 30 years old and the fact you could drive to a lake and catch one is what we should be protecting. Set a slot up in Cold where one 54cm - 58cm trout could be kept (or something like that) those little guys are way better eating and let’s those big ones to spawn and a chance to catch a trophy. Bait ban also. I miss catching those 20-30 lbs’ers in there.
I like the smaller idea and you right they just make better table fare....bait ban might be tuff to enforce as people target burbot, eyes etc with bait and the lakers they will at pretty much anything...unless the complete lake was 100% bait banned.
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