I LIKE IT!!!! Thanks for the input. Maybe instead of limiting the range of yakers (2 casting distances to somebody with a phone) we just let em on their own. If they want to go 2 miles away from somebody with a phone and kill fish, they take the penalty. I'd hate for somebody to have that attitude, and kill those fish though. We'll figure something out. I'd hate to limtit people's range, but if that's what we have to do, that's what we have to do. I do like your 10 fish "temporary limit" deal. ooooo I just thought of a problem- DFG probably won't like me driving around with 30 calico bass in my boat. I wonder if I could talk to them and see if they'd allow it for conservation purposes. Maybe I could get a permit or something. I'm sure they'd understand as it's for the best interest of the fishery (but, you never know...). We'll see. I'll try to talk to em as soon as I can and see what's up. If that doesn't work out, I don't know what we'll do. Something kinda crude, that probably isn't much better, would be to set up some floating livewells, anchor them to the bottom, mark it on the gps (and have it in an easily findable location, maybe with a flag or something) and then once I get 10 fish on the skiff, go dump em in the "pens" and shuttle em to shore 10 at a time. I think the regs say you can't have more than 10 fish in your possession, right, so I wonder if there's anything about penning fish up. I'm sure there must be. We'll see.
-Brian