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Posted by }<)))*> StriperChaser on August 13, 2005, 9:02 am The Smith Mountain Striper Club has announced its Dan Wilson, DGIF biologist, believes current Link: Read the Article
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Striper club says “no”
By Bill Cochran
ROANOKE.COM COLUMNIST
opposition to a number of management changes for
striped bass that are being recommended by
biologists of the Department of Game and Inland
Fisheries.
regulations need to be adjusted in order to enhance
Smith Mountain’s declining population of large
stripers. He has recommended eliminating the
current 20-inch minimum size limit and
implementing a 26- to 37-inch slot limit from Oct.
1-May 31. During this period, anglers could keep two
stripers outside the slot limit measurements. From
June 1 to Sept. 30 there would be no size limit and
the catch limit would be four. (See “A new approach
for Smith Mountain Lake stripers,” March 24.)
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