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I have an older 6.5 medium weight GL2 that I love. I fish it for tubes and dart heads...has a nice back bone and range to fish lighter dart heads into heavier tegax rigged tubes, etc. Great action, great senstitivity, and I'd imagine that in the last 5 years, things have come a long way.

Mike

What was the winning weight?

Take it easy always. You don't need a big repair bill, the few extra minutes it takes to take extra caution will pay in the long run. There are some large areas of debris right now...use caution.

Mike

Hey Kent, speak for yourself...some of us do manage fisheries for a living!!!!

Mike

...you guys are killing me

There used to be threadfin in Oroville, lots of them. Stony, don't believe everything you hear!!! :D Hey Guys, its not as easy as managing "baitfish" or the "spots" its about manageing a complex, non-natural ecosystem. These issues are complex and managers now have the opportunit...

Who were the DFG gentlemen involved?

Chris, Good conversation. You are right about the recruitment leading to fewer larger fish...but what I failed to elaborate on is the fact that LM are less tolerant and fewer in number than spots when it comes time to spawn. So if all the LM in the lake spawn in a few feet of water in a 3 week perio...

I wasn't eluding to you referring to Oroville being, or implying that it could be a Trophy fishery, but often times I hear things to that affect from other anglers. I've been fishing Oroville for 25 years, I've grown up there, its in my back yard. There is some truth to the numbers and size of LMB. ...

Scenario: Fish Chris, this ones for you. Drain Lake Oroville, start over, no spots. Lets think back to say, hmmm, 1980. Lake Oroville, non-spot dominated, lots of smallmouth and redeye bass. Larger and more abundant LMB, but not by any means a trophy fishery. I can remember many a day fishing orovil...

Biologist...either way, what's it matter, biology is biology.

Granted my thoughts and grammer weren't entirely cohesive, but I had my 2 year old hanging off of me while I was trying to cook dinner, I hope my post provided some insight for everybody.

Thanks,

Mike

I have been waiting all day to make this post so here goes. Slot limits are tools often employed by fishery resource managers to achieve a specific managment objective. In the case of lake oroville, that objective (over twenty years ago) was to manage the large population of red eye bass dominated b...