{"id":5422,"date":"2024-07-23T07:40:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T12:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/23\/eat-more-bass-slot-limits-help-grow-bigger-fish\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T11:25:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T16:25:54","slug":"eat-more-bass-slot-limits-help-grow-bigger-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/23\/eat-more-bass-slot-limits-help-grow-bigger-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat More Bass: Slot Limits Help Grow Bigger Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DFYDYwK9RPc?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In this video produced by the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center, Alton Jones explains why slot limits are in place at select Texas lakes. The goal is to encourage the harvest of small bass in order to leave more food for the big ones so they can continue to grow and spawn and ultimately produce more trophy bass. Slot limit lakes include Lake Fork, Pinkston, Joe Pool, Walter E. Long, Georgetown, Bastrop, Bridgeport, Sweetwater, Davy Crockett, and Fayette County. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tpwd.state.tx.us\/publications\/annual\/fish\/limits_freshwater\/index.phtml#limits\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.tpwd.state.tx.us\/publications\/annual\/fish\/limits_freshwater\/index.phtml#limits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video produced by the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center, Alton Jones explains why slot limits are in place at select Texas lakes. The goal is to encourage the harvest of small bass in order to leave more food for the big ones so they can continue to grow and spawn and ultimately produce more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[4789,224,4788,4787,1898,4790,1055,4791,236],"class_list":["post-5422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-go-fishing","tag-alton","tag-bass","tag-center","tag-fisheries","tag-freshwater","tag-jones","tag-limits","tag-slot","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8509,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions\/8509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}