On today's episode of Bass Fishing for Noobs - Susie talks with Virginia's Fisheries Management John Odenkirk.

For the past 20+ years and managing over 12 counties, John gets to have the job of his dreams. Spending time out in the field surveying fish, there are 2 primary objectives to he job to find out, abundance and relative abundance of fish.

This data helps to find out recruitment (spawn), growth, and mortality for a given body of water and fish species. The only trick is, certain species can only be targeted for survey during certain times of years (such as bass).

John also gives us some very good insight into the year cycles and how the recruitments will greatly affect the quality of fishing.

John gives us some great insight to how everything ties together and how tournament fishing doesn't hurt fish populations, especially when bed fishing. Tune in to hear more into the science of fisheries management!

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