Now don't go gettin mad and hittin any ignore features on me please, I just wanna learn more about this... All I know about it is from a short bit of TV I watched one day and when I found out that people reach into the NESTS to grab them my first thought was pretty normal, I think. Now if you do it in an area where they are overpopulating or such, my viewpoint is "more poiwer to ya!", but having no way of knowing if that's the case, all I can do is ask. I mean, I don't imagine there are a whole lotta ppl willing to risk doing this so I don't suppose the number of fish prevented from spawning can be high enough to have any great impact on the fishery, right? Personally, in my area, the fishing seems to be best mid summer through fall, where I throw a line at least, and I've never hauled in any egg laden monsters, so aside from comparing this to the bad things anglers do, what are the arguments in favor of, or supporting the validity of this methiod? Just honest questions here guys, hope no ones gets offended.