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Posted by }<)))*> StriperChaser on October 30, 2005, 6:39 pm DGIF might change striper fishing rules at SML A handful of issues promise to get a good bit of the attention Thursday when the For sportsmen in the Roanoke region, two issues are getting most of the attention. The department's fisheries division wants to take radical steps at Smith Mountain One change would impose a protected slot limit for 26- to 36-inch stripers from The other change would eliminate the 20-inch minimum size and expand the daily Link: Read the article
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The Roanoke Times
Department of Game and Inland Fisheries board of directors votes on proposed
changes to fishing, hunting, wildlife and boating regulations.
One would impose major changes to the striper fishing rules at Smith Mountain Lake.
Another would ban deer feeding from the beginning of September through the end
of the deer-hunting season.
Lake, saying the changes might help the lake regain its stature as Virginia's best
inland fishery for trophy stripers. The lake's population of big stripers was almost
completely wiped out in 2003 by a double whammy of a forage shortage and a
massive infestation of copepod parasites.
October through May. Recycling stripers that are not quite trophies but are on
their way could help keep more large fish in the lake, biologists say.
bag limit from two to four stripers during the summer months.
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