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Originally Posted by Goose

Catching fish to eat is one thing. What gets me is the dude thats gota bring home 2 fish night after night after night, why? Even if your a wine maker don't you have consceince? Thats where farmers bury their fish gutts...at the foot of the vine. Make the limit 4 or take your 8yr old fishing so you can take home 4, they don't think twice about it. Selfish pigs.

Well for one, I don't think I'm a "selfish pig". I am guilty of often taking my legal limit of Striped-Bass home with me. I don't display my fish thru-out the neighbor-hood looking for admirers. Most of the time it's in the dead of night, and NO-ONE even knows I've come or gone. During the fall I stock freezer(s), there are some who no longer fish but truly enjoy the fruits of my labor and the labor of friends who sometimes fish with me and offer their fish to me knowing where it will end up. Not on the market nor the internet but in someone's basement freezer, not filleted as that wastes too much (meat/fish) in their eyes, so they chop it up and use every possible piece of (meat) that the fish has to offer, head, eyes and all. We didn't ALL come from a deep golden pocket who would rather buy clean, bleached fish rather then undress their own. I enjoy the act of giving. In my case it is very self-less. It's very rare that you see pictures of my fish on the net, normally they're used as Jokes to a thread, not for self proclamation.
I eat fish all winter, had some last week for that matter. It was delicious, even to a "pig" like me. The families that I provided fish for last season were VERY grateful, and there were no gifts exchanged for the fish, only LOVE in one way or another. We all have our reasons for keeping the legal limit. We shouldn't judge unless we're ready to be judged ourselves.


LeCounts1099 - I respect your outlook and your attempt at keeping the fish mortality to your lowest possilbe number. You are following your heart as I am mine, and I admire that quality. Please keep in mind that we ..as 2 different people, could possibly have our heart lead us into taking different actions, neither one being less noble. (Again, not looking for nobility here from anyone, respect is NOT gained on the internet).