[rickstr66]

Tyler, Think about what John said and how averages are decided from creel census'. Lets say you and I go out on Winni for a day of fishing. You catch 5 fish that weight 15 lbs. I catch 2 fish that weigh 3 lbs. The "average' fish for that day is 2.57 lbs. But we can assume that you had several fish over that size to get to your 15 lbs and I had none even close. I had fewer fish and smaller fish which dropped the average fish weight considerabally. One way to "fix" a creel sensus, if it needs fixing at all is to "throw out" the top 10% and bottom 10% of the total creel. I dont think this is possible at the curent time because when conducting the creel they only count total bass caught then devide by # of anglers to get to ther numbers. They would have to monitor each individual angler weighing in or take the actual results from a tournament, eliminate the top and bottom 10% and then calculate. In my opinion though this will not change the results that much. For every good angler, there is a bad. For every 4 pound smallie caught , there is a 1 pounder brought in, or close to it.