Grab all the fish you want while they're still alive — this Kansas lake is drying up

There's a temporary free-for-all at Ellis City Lake, where the same hideous drought that's killing western Kansas crops is poised to kill the fish. So many of the usual limits on fishing have been lifted to harvest fish before they die.
Grab the fish at Ellis City Lake by net, by hand — whatever. Just take as many as you want.

They will die anyway, the state fears.

So on Tuesday, Kansas suspended catch limits and size rules for pulling catfish, crappies, bass, bluegills and any other fish you find in the dwindling reservoir about 15 miles west of Hays.

It’s called a public fish salvage, and it took effect immediately.