Does This Make You Mad? 2024

Western-Mass-Bass reply : 

For some reason now that I believe Ive become a more serious fisherman. As I'm in my boat fishing and Im watching folks on the bank keeping everything they catch. From the mishandling, metal stringer in 3 inches of water etc etc. If your feeding your family without other means than im for it i guess but I often wonder how much of this fish is never eaten or ruined by sitting in a 5 gallon bucket in the middle of the summer.? I don't know maybe I'm just ranting.... Lee

 

 

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Catch and Grease reply : 

As long as they're eating them and not breaking regulations it doesn't bother me much, around here you have to get used to it.

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Western-Mass-Bass reply : 

  On 10/5/2015 at 4:05 AM, Catch and Grease said:

As long as there eating them and not breaking regulations it doesn't bother me much, around here you have to get used to it.

Ya, I here ya on that. And couldn't agree more, lets just say I fish a very public river. And have for a long time. Seems to be getting real worse. Hell I cant say Ive never done it growing up as a kid with my dad. Maybe me just Ranting

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A-Jay reply : 

C & R is my routine as well.

 

But do you think that there might be an occasion where an angler on the bank who does not, is looking out as a boat angler releases a catch and thinks to themseleves "What's the point?"

 

To each his own.

 

A-Jay

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Western-Mass-Bass reply : 

  On 10/5/2015 at 4:14 AM, A-Jay said:

C & R is my routine as well.

 

But do you think that there might be an occasion where an angler on the bank who does not, is looking out as a boat angler releases a catch and thinks to themseleves "What's the point?"

 

To each him own.

 

A-Jay

Education is key. Well said A-Jay

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Western-Mass-Bass reply : 

I am not trying to cause a hornets nest here. I'm sure there is alot of opinions on this. The local club I fish with have management days where we clean up some shoreline and its just amazing what we find. Folks I'm talking about abandoned fish on stringers that have been left behind and become turtle food. And nice mature fish here. Hell as a kid we ate us some fish at my house. But never left the banks like this!!! I am a catch and release fisherman. Have no problem with people eating there catch. But at least respect it.....

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MickD reply : 

I don't think it is as much about eating the fish as it is in the culture of keep.  I also think a good percentage of the fish don't really get eaten, but it's the culture.  The key is in education, as someone else said.  We just have to keep plugging along, teaching that a really good fish can be caught more than once.  We have two similar lakes here, both private, one a lot more private than the other.  I went five years without catching a legal bass on the less private lake.  My son lives on the more private one, which has a strong catch and release culture, and we go out and catch 20 or more legal bass in a couple hours, usually with a few 4 pounders, two five pounders the same day this summer.  That can only happen with a catch and release culture.

 

It's pretty easy to convince people if you have the time to talk to them that the fun of fishing is not in the cleaning and eating as much as it is in the catching.  So why not catch more and clean less?

 

In some instances where lake management indicates it is better to take the fish out of the lake.  In those cases, I don't even care whether the fish end up as food or fertilizer.

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MFBAB reply : 

Doesn't make me even a tiny bit mad, if they are within the law.

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BooyahMan reply : 

If they are keeping within the daily quota and are actually eating it, I'm okay with that. What I'm NOT okay with is people keeping over their limit and just throwing everything they catch into a bucket. Here Bass are considered invasive and most people have a poor opinion of them and thus chuck in the bucket, in the bush etc. What most of them don't realize is that we DO have a limit of 4 Bass per day, so all the guys dumping the bass thinking they're fixing the "invasion" are  actually just breaking the law.

 

You know what really made me mad this year? A couple of months ago I heard of a couple guys keeping 70+ Pink Salmon in one day. The limit was 2 per person. Stuff like that makes me sick.

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Senko lover reply : 

As long as it's within legal ramifications, keeping fish shouldn't drastically harm a body of water's population. I'd say there's more C + R anglers than ever before, I certainly see far more throwing the fish back than eating them, especially with bass. 

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everythingthatswims reply : 

People who eat fish just need to learn how to crappie fish. It's way easier to get "a mess", they taste better, and they do a good job keeping themselves populated.

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Fisher-O-men reply : 

I would to see them educated to keep the small ones and throw back anything 4+.  In our neck of the woods it costs $8 a day to fish the lakes. That would buy a nice family meal of Tilipia at the store. 

 

I saw a shore fisherman fishing with shiners for Crappie, so I pointed him to a good spot.  I sat in my tube and saw him catch three progressively bigger bass, starting at 4lbs.  As he caught them he threw them in the dirt behind him and rebaited his hook. Wish I could take back that pointer!

 

So, yeah, it bothers me.

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Western-Mass-Bass reply : 

  On 10/5/2015 at 8:01 AM, Fisher-O-men said:

I would to see them educated to keep the small ones and throw back anything 4+.  In our neck of the woods it costs $8 a day to fish the lakes. That would buy a nice family meal of Tilipia at the store. 

 

I saw a shore fisherman fishing with shiners for Crappie, so I pointed him to a good spot.  I sat in my tube and saw him catch three progressively bigger bass, starting at 4lbs.  As he caught them he threw them in the dirt behind him and rebaited his hook. Wish I could take back that pointer!

 

So, yeah, it bothers me.

And you now know how I feel. Nail on the head Fisher-O-Men!! Thanks, Lee

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d-camarena reply : 

Im mexican, i was always taught to keep everything and at the end of the day we used to celebrate by cooking the fish and having a nice meal. Exept bass, i was alwqys told that bass wqs no good for eating. To many bones lol. I guess my uncle taught me good. And all the fish we kept were legal size. We didnt want to risk our fishing priveledges

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Fried Lemons reply : 

My dad got into fishing when I was around 5 years old and would keep absolutely anything we caught. We didn't specifically target bass, we would just bait with some nightcrawlers and take whatever happened to come by. As I grew older and I started learning to target bass, I noticed that some of the productive areas I had been fishing since the beginning were no longer producing fish of any size.

 

We were by no means the only fishermen in those areas with the harvest all mentality. I've seen firsthand the impact that over harvest even within legal limits can have on a local fishery. I now release almost all of the bass I catch. I feel it also sets a good example for people who are interested in getting into the sport.

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EvanT123 reply : 

What makes me mad is riding around in my boat and seeing all those fish on the fisher finder, that I can't or don't catch. Littering makes me mad too.

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RoLo reply : 

Does This Make You Mad?

 

Nah

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DogBone_384 reply : 

I sometimes think about it, but in the world we live in today where 'everyone's right and nobody can be offended', I pretty well mind my own business.  You know the old saying about opinions....

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the reel ess reply : 

Not mad, but it does resolve me to be responsible. But I'll keep some fish from private places if I'm in my buddy's boat. I can clearly see it's not harming the fishery and I always let anything over a three pounds go. Plus it's very healthy meat.

 

I'm keeping a small slot from 1-2 lbs. only when I'm not in the kayak. It makes me madder to see people abuse one dragging it on the bank, carrying it around for 10 min. and let it go. And don't keep it in the livewell for hours for the video and then release it. Take the pic, weigh and release it. Act like you've caught a good fish before.

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the reel ess reply : 

  On 10/5/2015 at 7:52 AM, everythingthatswims said:

People who eat fish just need to learn how to crappie fish. It's way easier to get "a mess", they taste better, and they do a good job keeping themselves populated.

I always wonder about this. Why makes a bass's life more valuable than the crappie's? Just because we think it is and we want to catch more. I like the taste of bass from clean ponds and they do need to be managed by thinning the herd of dinks to improve size. The C/R at all cost mentality doesn't apply to ponds.

 

This isn't an opinion, it's documented by fisheries biologists. They say to remove 20 lbs/acre/year of bass min. even if you just turn them into fertilizer. If you don't, you run the risk of overpopulating the bass and stunting their growth. Most owners need help to accomplish that. I know my buddy does and I help him whenever I can. I take half of my catch and leave him half in a wire basket.

http://www.bassresource.com/fish_biology/slot.html

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Scarborough817 reply : 

it kind of bugs me but it's more so the attitude about it. in my area a lot of people seem to think it's fun to kill bass or any fish just because. if you're eating them it's a different story but if it's just for entertainment then why do it? you can only kill them once but with catch and release you can catch them multiple times.

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ColdSVT reply : 

  On 10/5/2015 at 6:43 AM, MFBAB said:

Doesn't make me even a tiny bit mad, if they are within the law.

This right here

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Fishing Rhino reply : 

Look at it this way.  No matter what you do for fun, there will always be someone around to muck it up.  For fishermen, it's jet skiers, water skiers, party barges that pass close by, litterbugs, you name it.  Golf?  You have to put up with the same type of people who are not courteous to others, or the course.  They don't replace divots, or fill them depending on the course's policy.  They don't repair their ball marks on the putting green.  They toss their cigarette butts on the ground.  The list is endless.

 

In most cases, there is nothing you can do about it, so you need to learn to ignore it, or accept it.  If you can't, you'll end up being miserable doing something intended to be fun.

 

Hunting?  I don't, but I'm sure there are basic rules of etiquette.  Some of the ponds I fish also have hunters who set up blinds, and I see fishermen who will fish, or pass close to their blinds when there are plenty of other areas they could fish and allow the hunters to share the same resource for a season.

 

Relax, lighten up, and you'll get more enjoyment out of your fishing.

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Sam reply : 

Ticks me off all the time.

If you want some fish to eat then go to the grocery or a seafood store.

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the reel ess reply : 

  On 10/5/2015 at 11:16 PM, Sam said:

Ticks me off all the time.

If you want some fish to eat then go to the grocery or a seafood store.

That's like telling hunters to stop shooting wildlife and go buy some steaks. Harvesting some of earth's bounty is how nature intended it. It's usually healthier, cheaper and environmentally friendlier. A lot of that fish in the grocery store was caught with a net by people who were "keeping everything" on a huge scale. If it wasn't wild caught, it's farm raised and probably lacking in nutritional value.

 

Some lakes that are designed and managed for trophies, the owner will pay someone to shock up fish and kill a portion of the smaller ones to maintain trophy size. If you're a bass fisherman, you need to see this video. It's the besat video I've ever seen about fact/myth regarding the largemouth.

 

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=facts+and+myths+about+bass&FORM=HDRSC3#view=detail&mid=648612463D2D8FA8DECA648612463D2D8FA8DECA

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the reel ess reply : 

  On 10/5/2015 at 10:14 PM, Scarborough817 said:

it kind of bugs me but it's more so the attitude about it. in my area a lot of people seem to think it's fun to kill bass or any fish just because. if you're eating them it's a different story but if it's just for entertainment then why do it? you can only kill them once but with catch and release you can catch them multiple times.

That right there explains why I fish when others are hunting. I can release a trophy bass but not a trophy buck. I see no wrong in keeping fish, but I do like to catch the big ones. If I catch a 5 pounder this year and the same fish next year at 6 pounds, that's two trophies to me. If I killed the 5 pounder another has to grow up to take its place and that might take 4-5 years. People who keep EVERYTHING don't realize what a miracle a 6 lb bass is compared to the average dink. 99.6% of those hatched don't have a birthday. So I'm going to protect and release the big ones. My family's not starving.

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Scarborough817 reply : 

  On 10/6/2015 at 12:36 AM, the reel ess said:

That right there explains why I fish when others are hunting. I can release a trophy bass but not a trophy buck. I see no wrong in keeping fish, but I do like to catch the big ones. If I catch a 5 pounder this year and the same fish next year at 6 pounds, that's two trophies to me. If I killed the 5 pounder another has to grow up to take its place and that might take 4-5 years. People who keep EVERYTHING don't realize what a miracle a 6 lb bass is compared to the average dink. 99.6% of those hatched don't have a birthday. So I'm going to protect and release the big ones. My family's not starving.

that's my thoughts exactly why keep something and deplete the population for no reason. i'd much rather get a weight and a picture then send her on her way for someone else to catch. i feel it is up to us to teach people about catch and release as well as the safe handling of fish 

 

also just found a very disturbing video on youtube that i have linked below (an angler kills a musky because it eats bass and walleye 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzdesfXfaTY

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the reel ess reply : 

  On 10/6/2015 at 1:10 AM, Scarborough817 said:

that's my thoughts exactly why keep something and deplete the population for no reason. i'd much rather get a weight and a picture then send her on her way for someone else to catch. i feel it is up to us to teach people about catch and release as well as the safe handling of fish 

 

also just found a very disturbing video on youtube that i have linked below (an angler kills a musky because it eats bass and walleye 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzdesfXfaTY

Hell, bass eat bass and walleye. Bass would eat a baby musky.

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RAMBLER reply : 

  On 10/5/2015 at 11:16 PM, Sam said:

Ticks me off all the time.

If you want some fish to eat then go to the grocery or a seafood store.

And get your fish that's caught in some other place where the fish trawlers tear up big chunks of ocean floor to get them and they decimate entire fishing areas. And, while they are at it, kill everything else in the net that they don't want.  As per usual, tear up/destroy the environment in some place other than my back yard.

 

I believe it's better to eat fish where you have pulled them out one at a time and release what you don't want so it can be caught, again.

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PourMyOwn reply : 

I'm ok with it. I keep any bass that is bleeding to the point that I doubt it will survive.

 

The only thing that really grinds my gears is boat ramp/lake etiquette. 

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Bluebasser86 reply : 

I'm okay with people keeping what they're going to eat. It's the "I need to fill the freezer", crowd that bugs me. I don't think many people around here realize that the possession limit is only twice the daily creel limit. I just wonder how much of that fish that goes into the freezer ever actually gets used. 

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zeth reply : 

Ah it gets under my skin. Where  I live all of the smal reservoirs are super dirty and yet people still eat fish out of them. Just a few weeks ago I was out fishing and a group of people on the bank had a stringer of 6-10" bass which were definitely way under the legal limit. Called the park cops (thats what you do here in Cali or at least in theBbay Area.  They didn't seem to care and never came.

 

Last year I was on another local reservoir. One someone just died on and is currently closed down because a baoter wasnt wearing their PFD when they should have been. Theyre searching for the body. At this one I've seen everything from a hundred beer cans strung up in a tree off a cliff like christmas ornaments. They used fihsing line. I climbed up to cut it all down. 30 minutes later probably the same people were on a school of stripers. There was maybe 6 guys and they all had more than their limit so they were throwing back dead stripers they caught earlier to keep fishing. There was nearly 20 or so stripers of 6lbs+ ea. floating around.  Called the park and the police. No one did a thing.

 

I grew up in Wisconsin and if you pulled something like that you would be in some real deep ....

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senile1 reply : 

Deja vu.  Where have I read similar posts before?  

 

I think we can all agree that as long as people follow the creel limits what they do with their fish is their business.  And if they don't . . . . that bothers us.  I'm so caught up in my own fishing I rarely notice what people are doing on the bank, and I definitely don't watch anyone long enough to ascertain if they are exceeding the limits.    

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the reel ess reply : 

 

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Bankbeater reply : 

If its legal, I don't have a problem with people keeping what they catch.  On the flip side, I do cringe a little bit when I see a 5 lber on a stringer.

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Catch and Grease reply : 

I don't like the people that have to have a freezer full of fish at all times ethier, there is a man that fishes at a lake down here that keeps bream and bass everyday he fishes which is very often. He catches so much that he has to sell/gift them to people because I know him and his wife can't eat all that fish...

He is a good person though, I love talking to him about the lake.

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Fishing Rhino reply : 

You want to complain about something?  Try this.

 

You are a commercial lobsterman.  It's late August, early September.  You have 700 lobster traps (35 twenty pot trawls) set in 22 - 26 fathoms of water 30 miles south south west of your home port of Westport, Massachusetts.  You are catching over five pounds per pot worth 3.25 per pound.

 

You get to your gear and find that a dragger or a scalloper has towed through your gear, in spite of it being properly marked with a polyform ball and a high flyer with a radar reflector on the mast on each end.  In all, you have lost about 200 traps at a cost of close to sixty dollars for each trap in the water.  That includes the traps, the line, and the terminal gear.

 

We caught over 2500 pounds of lobster from the remaining five hundred traps.  The missing traps would have netted us another thousand pounds of lobster.  So I not only lost the gear, but I also lost what those traps would have caught.  Not an insignificant number considering that we didn't start bringing the gear home until the middle of October.

 

It is part of the lobstering game, and if you cannot deal with it, you better do something else. 

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hawgenvy reply : 

I love bass fishing and have practiced catch and release for a long time.  But to many people in the world the purpose of fishing is for food, so to them catching fish to toss them back is pointless, and the morality of it can be questionable. I was in Cambodia a few months ago and the topic of fishing came up with our guide. I tell you, the fellow was incredulous that I spend hours catching fish just for "fun," spend money doing it, injure some of the fish in the process, and then don't even eat them. He had never heard of such folly as that. "If it's a sport," he said, "play football. It doesn't hurt God's creatures." So, maybe it's better to eat a few? Of course, most anything is better than keeping them and not eating them. But maybe it's appropriate to feel just a tiny bit guilty about catch and release, too.

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Jrob78 reply : 

  On 10/8/2015 at 10:18 AM, hawgenvy said:

I love bass fishing and have practiced catch and release for a long time.  But to many people in the world the purpose of fishing is for food, so to them catching fish to toss them back is pointless, and the morality of it can be questionable. I was in Cambodia a few months ago and the topic of fishing came up with our guide. I tell you, the fellow was incredulous that I spend hours catching fish just for "fun," spend money doing it, injure some of the fish in the process, and then don't even eat them. He had never heard of such folly as that. "If it's a sport," he said, "play football. It doesn't hurt God's creatures." So, maybe it's better to eat a few? Of course, most anything is better than keeping them and not eating them. But maybe it's appropriate to feel just a tiny bit guilty about catch and release, too.

You make a fantastic point.  It's pretty crazy to think about how lucky we are, from a global perspective.  In some places fishing is quite literally life or death.  

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Darren. reply : 

C&R for me all the time. Only time it was

suggested strongly to me otherwise was 

when I caught a 14 lb Striper in our local 

reservoir where they do not stock them.

 

Local biologist with Fish & Game wished I

kept it for research, aging, etc.

 

Otherwise, I release. Now for the record,

I have eaten fish in the past. Just isn't 

something I like to eat, so I don't.

 

If others do, I hope it is done responsibly.

Sadly, I've had to speak with kids who 

were keeping/killing fish for fun. That 

stuff is just unacceptable.

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hawgenvy reply : 

  On 10/9/2015 at 8:17 AM, Jrob78 said:

You make a fantastic point.  It's pretty crazy to think about how lucky we are, from a global perspective.  In some places fishing is quite literally life or death.  

Thanks, we are indeed lucky. Bass fishing as a personal act is selfish and destructive. But angling provides an incentive to preserve the natural aqueous and surrounding environment. So collectively we are beneficial.

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hawgenvy reply : 

Poor villagers in Cambodia, subsistence fishing with a small net. They are rounding up little fish that collect under floating mats. The river is odorous and visibly filthy, strewn all around with garbage. Yes, I'd say we here are very lucky.

 

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Anantha Patel reply : 

Some of the lakes here in Maryland would benefit from a purge of bluegill. As long as no laws are broekn, I'm fine.

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hawgenvy reply : 

OKAY.  I AM MAD.  DO YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES ME A BIT MADDER THAN ANYTHING DISCUSSED SO FAR ON THIS THREAD?  MADDER THAN THOSE BOYS CATCHING MINNOWS IN THE SEWER. NO GUESSES?   WELL, THEN,  I WILL TELL YOU.

 

A 14 YEAR OLD BOY, PERHAPS A FISHERMAN BUT I PROBABLY NOT A GOOD ONE, IS RIGHT NOW IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM BECAUSE HE PUT A FISHING WORM UP HIS thingy -- ALL THE WAY.    IT HAS CURLED UP IN HIS BLADDER LIKE A SLEEPING SNAKE.  AND HE CANT PEE IT OUT.

 

OKAY, STUFF HAPPENS.  I GET THAT.

 

BUT HERE'S THE PART THAT MAKES ME MAD:   IT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY TO GET IT OUT!

 

I WILL BE BRINGING HIM TO THE OPERATING ROOM IN A FEW HOURS. I HOPE TO SHOW YOU SOME NICE HIPPA- COMPLIANT PHOTOS IN THE NEXT DAY OR TWO.

 

AND NO, THIS DOES NOT MEAN, IF SUCCESSFUL, THAT I OUGHT RUN FOR US PRESIDENT.

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hawgenvy reply : 

I can't believe this site changed an established, proper, and sober medical term to "thingy"!

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Sam reply : 

Reel, I don't mind if you take home saltwater species; crappie; bream; catfish; other freshwater fish; and some small bass.

 

What gets me upset is when I see people along the road fishing ponds and they take the large ladies home.

 

We have a pond in my neighborhood that had some beautiful ladies in it along with some nice male bass.

 

People from outside the area fished from the road and removed the bass and catfish populations.

 

Now you can catch some crappie every now and then in the pond.  Nothing else.

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Sam reply : 

And Reel, your hunting to fishing analogy does not match.

 

Fish are isolated in a pond or lake with no where to go nor being able to repopulate themselves with bass from other ponds and lakes swimming into their pond or lake.

 

Wild animals like deer, elk, fox, etc. have no such boundaries and can move with ease and repopulate the areas after you take home your kill.

 

The guy who hunts behind my house sees all types of deer pass by every time he hunts: big ones; small ones; large antlers; small antlers; does; and fawns.

 

If he kills 20 this season we will have another 50 come through the area by my home in a month's time, if not more.

 

Not so with fishing a pond or small lake. Once you take the bass that are responsible for a successful spawn out of the water there are no others to take their places for a long time.

 

Great discussion and debate. Love it!!!!!

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RB 77 reply : 

Nah. At first it kinda-sorta did, but then then I thought "to each their own". My frezzer is full of Tuna and Dorado. I love to eat fish, just not fresh water stuff. Now poaching (overlimits, undersized fish, snagging, etc), thats a whole other can of worms....

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bassin is addicting reply : 

People keeping fish to eat doesn't bother me. What does bother me is people leaving a mess after they are done fishing

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the reel ess reply : 

  On 10/9/2015 at 6:41 PM, Sam said:

And Reel, your hunting to fishing analogy does not match.

 

Fish are isolated in a pond or lake with no where to go nor being able to repopulate themselves with bass from other ponds and lakes swimming into their pond or lake.

 

Wild animals like deer, elk, fox, etc. have no such boundaries and can move with ease and repopulate the areas after you take home your kill.

 

The guy who hunts behind my house sees all types of deer pass by every time he hunts: big ones; small ones; large antlers; small antlers; does; and fawns.

 

If he kills 20 this season we will have another 50 come through the area by my home in a month's time, if not more.

 

Not so with fishing a pond or small lake. Once you take the bass that are responsible for a successful spawn out of the water there are no others to take their places for a long time.

 

Great discussion and debate. Love it!!!!!

 

I assume you're talking about the larger females form a small pond. There's a problem with that because "larger" is a relative term. In many (most) small ponds, the fish have become stunted due to overpopulation and limited food supply. Too many breeders in a situation like that calls for some fish to be taken out. It's the only way, barring a fish kill or some other natural occurrence, to increase size. 20 lbs per acre per year is the recommended harvest for a pond. These need to be in a slot size from maybe 1-2.5 lbs.

 

My buddy has a pond that we take smaller fish from and it still remains stunted. Most of the bedding females are small. That indicates too many small fish that are still re-populating the pond-an endless cycle of stunted growth. We take these when we catch them too. I caught over 50 there on one spring day and only one was large enough that my conscience told me to throw it back. I did leave maybe 10 that were also too small for my self-imposed slot. I leave half my catch in his basket and text him to let him know. He complains that I don't catch him enough bluegill, but the bass really need attention. He doesn't want to add any other sources of food for fear of screwing up the balance.

 

Of course, you don't want to be seeing 3 lb and larger bass on any stringers. Anybody who fishes a place regularly should really frown upon that. And I never keep those.

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HoosierHawgs reply : 

  On 10/8/2015 at 10:18 AM, hawgenvy said:

I love bass fishing and have practiced catch and release for a long time. But to many people in the world the purpose of fishing is for food, so to them catching fish to toss them back is pointless, and the morality of it can be questionable. I was in Cambodia a few months ago and the topic of fishing came up with our guide. I tell you, the fellow was incredulous that I spend hours catching fish just for "fun," spend money doing it, injure some of the fish in the process, and then don't even eat them. He had never heard of such folly as that. "If it's a sport," he said, "play football. It doesn't hurt God's creatures." So, maybe it's better to eat a few? Of course, most anything is better than keeping them and not eating them. But maybe it's appropriate to feel just a tiny bit guilty about catch and release, too.

Well C&R is certainly better than throwing em on the bank for fertilizer. That sounds like more harm to ms.

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HoosierHawgs reply : 

  On 10/9/2015 at 12:38 PM, hawgenvy said:

OKAY. I AM MAD. DO YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES ME A BIT MADDER THAN ANYTHING DISCUSSED SO FAR ON THIS THREAD? MADDER THAN THOSE BOYS CATCHING MINNOWS IN THE SEWER. NO GUESSES? WELL, THEN, I WILL TELL YOU.

A 14 YEAR OLD BOY, PERHAPS A FISHERMAN BUT I PROBABLY NOT A GOOD ONE, IS RIGHT NOW IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM BECAUSE HE PUT A FISHING WORM UP HIS thingy -- ALL THE WAY. IT HAS CURLED UP IN HIS BLADDER LIKE A SLEEPING SNAKE. AND HE CANT PEE IT OUT.

OKAY, STUFF HAPPENS. I GET THAT.

BUT HERE'S THE PART THAT MAKES ME MAD: IT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY TO GET IT OUT!

I WILL BE BRINGING HIM TO THE OPERATING ROOM IN A FEW HOURS. I HOPE TO SHOW YOU SOME NICE HIPPA- COMPLIANT PHOTOS IN THE NEXT DAY OR TWO.

AND NO, THIS DOES NOT MEAN, IF SUCCESSFUL, THAT I OUGHT RUN FOR US PRESIDENT.

I now cannot sit straight. That is all.

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hawgenvy reply : 

  On 10/15/2015 at 8:43 PM, HoosierHawgs said:

I now cannot sit straight. That is all.

A Yamamoto Senko 5" in Watermelon Red and Green Flake was removed intact and safely from within an adolescent human male bladder by means of direct visual cystoscopic retrieval using flexible alligator forceps, under general anesthesia. The patient recovered fully within a couple of hours and was discharged home. To my knowledge, this situation has never been reported in the medical literature. The exact mechanism of retrograde propulsion of the lure along the urethra so that it ended up completely within the urinary bladder is a mystery, but may be related to the lure's described "seductive side to side tail action," which was enhanced by vigorous masturbatory stroking. Documentary photos shall remain confidential.

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Big bass hunter reply : 

Well here's my problem where I'm at we have a size limit of 12 inches or bigger for bass and the fishing pressure is high there's been a lot less three pounders and even less 5 pounders so now we have a huge amount of juvenile bass so for me I feel like they are having a harder time becoming a trophy bass do to haVing a high catch and keep Coulter. But we have bigger fish still but I'm kinda concerned about how it will effect the upcoming years.

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Missourifishin reply : 

On the rare occasion I see one of the live bait fishermen out at one of my spots catch a bass I would have been thrilled to catch, photograph and release and they throw it in a bucket, do I cringe? ABSOLUTELY. I don't like seeing that at all. But to go as far as saying I'm mad? No. If they're not breaking the law and they are taking it home for dinner, I don't think I really have the right to be mad. 

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1099gl reply : 

I have a hard time watching anyone keeping a fish no matter what species. I know its good for the fish population but I do agree I see many people mishandling fish and It makes me want to say something to them. Just my 2 cents.

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BaitMonkey1984 reply : 

I was pulling my boat out one day. Two older people were in a beta up canoe that I was honestly surprised it floated. They threw, and I mean threw the canoe on top of a station wagon. Canoe wasn't registered, didn't see any lifejackets.

 

They had a 5 gallon bucket, filled to the top with fish. Bass. Pickerel. Crappie. Bluegill. Perch. Up in this area we have an overpopulation of white perch, yellow perch and bluegill. Plus there is no limit on those- so I have no issue with those fish kept.

 

But they had way over there limit of bass, and several shorts. I thought they had a tiger muskie, as I saw stripes. I asked to look at it, and they agreed. It was a bass. It had some odd stripes. They had treated the lake for aquatic nuisance vegetation the day before. I kept my mouth shut, and let karma run its course. So yes, it makes me so mad because in my experience its the people who do not even pay for the state to maintain the resource. They don't have fishing licenses, registered their boats, etc. Then they are depleting a resource that we pay the lions share of protecting and preserving. 

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BassThumb reply : 

  On 10/6/2015 at 4:55 AM, RAMBLER said:

And get your fish that's caught in some other place where the fish trawlers tear up big chunks of ocean floor to get them and they decimate entire fishing areas. And, while they are at it, kill everything else in the net that they don't want.  As per usual, tear up/destroy the environment in some place other than my back yard.

 

I believe it's better to eat fish where you have pulled them out one at a time and release what you don't want so it can be caught, again.

 

NIMBY

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BassThumb reply : 

It only upsets me when they take the big lunker bass for their dinner tables.

 

A few years ago, I severely gill-hooked a 6-pounder (a big bass by Minnesota standards) with a frog and then wrestled it out of the lily pads and 80-degree water. The gills were detached in places, and the fish had nearly bled out and died by the time I got a hold of it.

 

It was clearly going to die, so rather than give it to the turtles, I decided to take it home, fillet it, and deep-fry it in Shorelunch breading, like I used to do with sunnies as a kid. The taste of that bass still haunts me to this day! Without a doubt, it was the most terrible meat I have ever eaten; it tasted just like how lake-bottom muck smells, even after being soaked in soda water, breaded, fried, and drizzled with hot-sauce, lemon, and tartar.

 

For the life of me, I cannot understand how people actually enjoy the taste of big bass. Cat food would be more appetizing.

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Catch and Grease reply : 

  On 10/24/2015 at 4:03 AM, BassThumb said:

It only upsets me when they take the big lunker bass for their dinner tables.

A few years ago, I severely gill-hooked a 6-pounder (a big bass by Minnesota standards) with a frog and then wrestled it out of the lily pads and 80-degree water. The gills were detached in places, and the fish had nearly bled out and died by the time I got a hold of it.

It was clearly going to die, so rather than give it to the turtles, I decided to take it home, fillet it, and deep-fry it in Shorelunch breading, like I used to do with sunnies as a kid. The taste of that bass still haunts me to this day! Without a doubt, it was the most terrible meat I have ever eaten; it tasted just like how lake-bottom muck smells, even after being soaked in soda water, breaded, fried, and drizzled with hot-sauce, lemon, and tartar.

For the life of me, I cannot understand how people actually enjoy the taste of big bass. Cat food would be more appetizing.

Do you like the taste of smaller bass, just wondering.

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Last_Cast reply : 

As long as they feed their family, do what you gotta do.

Personally I've kept very few.

The ones I did keep, we did eat for dinner.

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the reel ess reply : 

  On 10/24/2015 at 4:07 AM, Catch and Grease said:

Do you like the taste of smaller bass, just wondering.

I do. They're the best eating. And they're the only ones I keep.

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