Well chum man the drift I get is that unless you have a controlled farm pond situation there is NO WAY to keep spiney ray infested lakes in balance. The theory is to balance the predator Smallmouth,largemouth,walleye etc. with the food base, ie. the spineys like bluegill, crappies,sunfish. Well it just don't work. Regardless of slot limits etc. The lake becomes out of balance and NO ONE likes to fish the results.

It is in my humble opinion partly the problem that our lakes are NOT suitable in food base for spiney rays or bass,walleye. Sure there exceptions mainly the large resivors with many species for preditors to eat. BUT by and large out small lakes are only suited in food base for TROUT.
Those that insist on polluting them with spineys need to go home to Arkansas,Texas,Georga or wherever where the lakes are suitable for their fav. fishes.

Our Dept . of F&G knows how to stop this ruinous practice by the bucket brigade. In fact they did it once but failed to stick to their guns.

You just make in illegal to fish for or possess spiney rays on the lake (after rehabing it and planting trout.) It then becomes useless for the spiney lovers to recorrupt the water with their junk fish.
In the present complaints case, I suspect the cut to the bone budgets and our F&G leaders ban for 3 years on useage of Rotenone has left Spectacle the Spectac le it is right now.