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Originally Posted by Headhunter
I wish it was 50 or maybe even a 100 dollar tag to target rockfish and hybirds for fishing, whether keeping a legal limit or catch and release. It would be a plus and help the fishery.
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I'd also like to propose a "no catch and release" for hybrids and stripers from June thru September.
No culling, no catch and release. Catch your two fish, regardless of size (over the legal limit of 15 inches of course) and you are done for the day. This would eliminate the deaths of many fish that are fought, caught, stressed, mishandled, and released to die from delayed mortality. I'll post just one study out of many that show the mortality rate to be as high as 40% once the water temps reach 79 degrees.
http://www.bigindianabass.com/big_in...ity-study.html
And I would support a striper/hybrid stamp if it would increase the size of the fish in JPP. Old Hickory does not get the pressure as does a small impoundment like Percy Priest'
Old Hickory reservoir contains 22,500 acres (91 km2) at an elevation of 445 feet (above sea level) and extends 97.3 river miles.
J Percy Priest lake consists of 14,200 acres (57 kmē) of water at summer pool elevation 490 feet (149 m) above mean sea level. The lake covers 42 river miles from the dam near Nashville to between miles six and seven of the
Stones River.