How long can we afford to ignore what happening to our rivers throughout Indiana and Kentucky. As it stands right now, there are no size limits or creel limits in Kentucky and this means you can catch and keep as many 40-100 lbers you like.

This trend has been going on for several years now as the pay lakes have been doing some major promotion advertising huge catfish. Catfishing has become popular in all aspects of the sport and i totally understand that some folks don’t have access to the big rivers, thus they go for some action at the pay lakes. But I don’t think we can afford to continue to supply the pay lakes demand, without depleting our natural resources form the KY and IN rivers, this issue also goes deeper than just KY and IN though, other states have the same issue and if the demand is there, commercial fisherman will travel to permitting states to collect these trophies.

I think if this going to work for both parties, the pay lake owners along with the pay lake goers should practice some sort of conservation efforts to help insure that the trophy size catfish population stays strong in our natural water ways. Anglers that fish our natural water ways are already aware of the conservation issues and are taking steps to improve it. But it’s going to take everybody’s cooperation with the conservation efforts to make sure we keep our states natural water ways strong.

Ive noticed in the past few months with the growing popularity of Social networking and catfishing, that more and more folks are on the hunt for trophy cats, and thats cool, everybody should have a chance to catch a monster! however only about 50% of the pics i see are of fish i know could be released, water in the back ground of the pic! the other 50% i see these monster cats hanging from a tree in a dudes back yard by a stringer. some only have one hangin and other have more.

PLEASE JUST BE AWARE AND JOIN THE ACTION!