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10/25/2006
Lake Columbia largemouth bass rules liberalized
MAGNOLIA – Restrictions on largemouth bass fishing on
Lake Columbia, near Magnolia, will be eased beginning Jan. 1. The
water-supply lake is one of several in Arkansas managed as trophy bass
lakes.
The
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission took the action at its October meeting
in Little Rock after fisheries biologists reported the lake had an
abundance of bass within the protected slot limit and that increased
harvest was needed.
The new regulation changes the current 16 to 21-inch
slot, four fish per day with only one fish over 21 inches to a 16 to
18-inch protected slot limit with an eight-fish daily creel limit, with
only three of these over 18 inches. The change is being made because
fish were stacking up in the 16 to 21-inch slot and their growth was
slowing. The harvest of some of these "slot fish" should improve the
over-all growth rates, the biologists said
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The
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission took the action at its October meeting
in Little Rock after fisheries biologists reported the lake had an
abundance of bass within the protected slot limit and that increased
harvest was needed.