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That question is crazy huge.Depending on the species of fish it can be very easy to over harvest or it can be near impossible to over harvest. Some species are very productive and have extremely high fecundity (reproduction) these species are hard to over fish. Some species can't establish natural reproduction and are present only due to stocking efforts. As you can imagine, these fish can be over harvested rather quickly.
The bite here is SLOW...I mean SLOW, right now. My neighbor has the "It's been fished out" theory. I do not agree with him and told him I guessed there were thousands of each species in the lake we were on when the discussion came up (177 acres, Bows, Brookies, all the pan fish and both Bass)177 acres is a pretty big lake, does thousands of each species seam high? I think not. The lake has 80 feet and is generally deep everywhere. You can find 18' no more than five steps from shore. Can a small farm pond be fished out with constant pressure? I guess we would have to define fished out. your bite is slow because your fishing the worst possible time of yr. and month.as far as your statement about deer and fish playing at night,...well....fish and deer are a lot different. Fish play at night and day and everything in between. Deer play at night mostly due to human pressure. Now if you want to talk about different age classes of deer and fish....thats a whole other topic. Just my two cents worth. Let me know how your fishing goes in 19 days[/quote
Good stuff Osage - Can You give the name of the book? Thnx
Osage,You post from WV?If that's West Virginia, what kind of ice fishing season do you have?If you are in Wyoming, and the WV is a typo, then I get it.Chas