IMO that makes you smarter than the people that do have the degrees a lot of the time. I definitely am not an expert on fisheries management, as previously stated, but I learned a lot while there doing what I was doing. But what you said sums up what true intelligence is all about, because with any information, the only thing we can do is take it in and apply it with our own experiences to make the best judgements. With the bass stuff though, I have seen it with my own eyes, if a lot of the 14-16 bass aren't culled it will severely stunt the whole bass population. Now this applies from 1 acre ponds to 150 acre lakes. Beyond that I am not sure.