|
|
Article: Smallmouth bass bounty
- Article from:
- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- January 6, 2009
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 2009 Yakima Herald-Republic. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
By SCOTT SANDSBERRY
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
Like all trophy-hunting sportsmen, smallmouth bass anglers want
to keep the big ones.
Fishery managers are trying to convince them to keep the smaller
ones.
So much so, in fact, they're considering paying them for it --
for the very reason, and possibly, in much the same way, that for
the last decade they have paid anglers a bounty to catch and keep
northern pikeminnow. Like the pikeminnow, the smallmouth bass feast
upon enough chinook salmon smolts to affect salmon runs.