You'd think this would apply to our Ozark impoundments that have smallmouth.
..TWRA proposes that anglers could keep 5 smallmouth bass each day and there would be no minimum length limit – except only 1 smallmouth or spotted bass could exceed 16" long.
> TWRA Fisheries Division chief Jason Henegar said...due to hybridization with spotted bass, particularly AL-strain spotted bass, they can no longer manage smallmouth as a species on its own now.
> Henegar said in one survey, biologists shocked up fish, visually identified them and then sent those fish for DNA analysis. "In 50% of the cases our visual identifications were wrong. Half of those fish (biologists visually identified as smallmouth) were actually hybrids and that's going to deteriorate even farther as time goes on. You can't manage specifically for smallmouth anymore."
The final holdouts of a group of monkeys that escaped from a research facility in South Carolina over two months ago have been recaptured safely, the Yemassee Police Department announced on Friday.
The 43 rhesus macaque primates escaped after a caretaker failed to secure doors. All are back at the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemassee. The last four, recaptured this week, “appear to be in good health,” Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard said, according to police.
I've recently been looking at Lake Sakakawea in ND. HUGE lake, 130,000 acres. Smallmouth, walleye, muskie, pike, chinook salmon, and catfish. Supposedly the smallmouth are abundant as everyone goes there for the walleye. Too far for me to haul my boat but looks to be plenty of shore access and camping of all types available. If you could time it to hit right around the smallmouth spawn I bet a guy could walk the banks and do well.
Hunted quail, pheasant and chukar back in mine and your old stomping grounds. Opener for quail, we'd run across coveys of blue quail that would have 100 birds. Burned lots of ammo. That was fun, I really miss it.