Trout and salmon are ment to be caught and eaten. I fish for trout almost 3 times a month, he killed a sport fish for no reason thats all i was getting at. I didnt realize this was going to turn into a childish fight. Yea the white bucket brigade are notorious up here
Trout and salmon are ment to be caught and eaten. I fish for trout almost 3 times a month, he killed a sport fish for no reason thats all i was getting at. I didnt realize this was going to turn into a childish fight. Yea the white bucket brigade are notorious up here
You dont get to decide what fish are sport and what fish can be eaten. You are joke if a fisherman if you look down upon those who qctually eat their sizeable catches rather than treating them like play things. I have been catching bass for 17 years and do you know how many bass i have taken? 5 - which means one fish taken every 3.4 years.
On top of that, while the state legal limit is 12 inches, i do not take any fish smaller than 15 inches and never take more than one for any given day and that was taught to me by my father.
Have fun pretending that you are better than everyone else.
You do have the right to keep it, people just frown upon it at a sport fishing style site. I think it's less of an issue when it's smaller sized bass. that's a future 7 pounder removed. At any rate whats done is done. I'd be interested to know what it had in its stomach?
a lot of the ponds are contaminated with mercury and other crap. the ponds arent clean and nether are some rivers. id only keep panfish or trout! panfish dont have a ton of contaminants like the bass do.
bioaccumilation is a life time of contaminants in smaller fish like panfish.
Biomagnification is the amount of all the life times of contaminants of each prey fish. so the bass will have more then perch and shiners due to eating them.
plus id rather see a big bass swim away to get bigger.
but if a pond is over run with small bass! cull them to improve the fishery.
bioaccumilation is a life time of contaminants in smaller fish like panfish.
Biomagnification is the amount of all the life times of contaminants of each prey fish. so the bass will have more then perch and shiners due to eating them.
plus id rather see a big bass swim away to get bigger.
but if a pond is over run with small bass! cull them to improve the fishery.
Uncle Homer used to advise people who asked about keeping bass to keep the smaller and let the bigger ones go. Once while on vacation in Maine my wife asked me to keep a fish for the grill. So I caught a 2 pounder and grilled it up. Tasted like weeds. I never ate another bass again. I don't agree with killing a 6 pounder for anything other than an accidental gut hook.
Trout and salmon are ment to be caught and eaten. I fish for trout almost 3 times a month, he killed a sport fish for no reason thats all i was getting at. I didnt realize this was going to turn into a childish fight. Yea the white bucket brigade are notorious up here
He killed a bass. And as long as he is licensed, he had every right to kill it and eat it. There is no such thing as a "sport fish."
My .02 cause it's what I do..... The guy has every right ( assuming he purchased a 2016 fishing license, Care to post a pic of that ) to catch and eat 5 bass a day 7 days a week. Having said that this is a fishing message board where 99% of bass fisherman practice C & R 100% of the time. Posting a pic of a dead 5lber in his living room was going to provoke discussion, He had to know that. Also we who practice C & R have to be open minded and allow for the fact that others think differently and sometimes take a fish or 2 home for consumption. It is a shame to see a big beautiful fish like that gone from the Gene pool . If I may suggest, next time take home 2-3 two lbers for the table
Trout and salmon are ment to be caught and eaten. I fish for trout almost 3 times a month, he killed a sport fish for no reason thats all i was getting at. I didnt realize this was going to turn into a childish fight. Yea the white bucket brigade are notorious up here
He killed a bass. And as long as he is licensed, he had every right to kill it and eat it. There is no such thing as a "sport fish."
He killed a fish that had potential to become much larger that us sport fisherman enjoy catching. I never said he couldnt take the fish, its his right if he does have a license to do so. I SAID he should t have taken THAT fish unless it was gut hooked or bleeding out. Ive caught 9-10 lbers in Florida and in California and i NEVER take the fish. This discussion will go on and on with people who do it for sport and people that do it for food so lets end it.
Here is my two cents on this: I am on the side of catch and release. If I catch a good size fish, I weigh it, take my pictures for evidence and release it. I fish for the adventure and thrill of it and if you throw a good size fish back, you may catch him next season which I think is more fun than hanging him on the wall or eating it.
On the flip side, If I'm stuck in a lifeboat(decent chance as I'm a Merchant Mariner and at sea for half of the year) or any survival situation, your damn right I'm gonna eat the hell out of that fish! But in a world where I don't need to gather, hunt or fish for my food, I'll throw the fish back 100% of the time.
On the flip side, If I'm stuck in a lifeboat(decent chance as I'm a Merchant Mariner and at sea for half of the year) or any survival situation, your damn right I'm gonna eat the hell out of that fish! But in a world where I don't need to gather, hunt or fish for my food, I'll throw the fish back 100% of the time.
I can believe that. That is definitely the trend for the size of bass in the US. Florida has the biggest bass followed by the other states in the South but the further north you go, the bass are generally smaller because of the much shorter time that the water is warm