Catch & Release - My Rant

[RickBomba]

Originally Posted by bassballer

i hate cleaning fish. Thats why im mostly C&R or else id probably keep a couple more.

I made some bad ass striped-bass tacos tuesday night.

I also had bad ass striped bass tacos Tuesaday night.

I would say we Sharknadoed them.

[Steve K]

Originally Posted by RickBomba

I would say we Sharknadoed them.

I recorded Sharknado last night. I am looking forward to watching it.

[tattoobob]

I don't give a rats ass what anyone is doing with there fish, all I care about is what I do. The fishery is
mismanaged an until that changes it won't get any better
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[BigFish]

Tattoo Bob for President!
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[nightfighter]

I don't keep many, but if I do, it is going to be eaten that day. However, I had a lot of family in over the 4th, so had to put them on fish to keep. Four days of that chit... Two were from Virginia and are hunters, so they wanted to take some home. They took their four, but I wasn't going to keep another two, which would have counted as my fish. As hunters who harvest deer, they at least understood where I was coming from.
I don't keep fish for the freezer until September, and even then it might only be two fish. I would rather have cod for those winter stews.
As for the high mortality rate of released fish.... I don't buy it. at least on my boat and my releases. If it looks like a legal fish wont make it, I'll keep it. Shorts are going to be given their chance to fend for themselves. Makes me sick to see a floater though....

[Jenn]

Although not raised an actual farmer...I was raised a farmers daughter and that is close enough. If you catch it and its legal you eat it. If your not going to eat it( or give it to someone that will) you let it go. Its only ok to keep and not eat if its a once in a lifetime fish and it will go on the wall (you do this only once, so make it count!)

I have no problem with people keeping fish if they are beingconsumed or as I stated above that once in a lifetime fish to mount. If someone keeps often just to show off then I feel disgusted by it. Also dont like the "holier than though" attitude of the "catch and release" few that feel they kill none. Get over your ego...your still potentially killing some even if you let them go.

Last but not least I would rather see one fisherman take 5 keepers on 5 single lines with hooks to keep multiple pounds of striper than to see a massive boat with a massive net catch one pound of shrimp and throw 40 pounds of dead/or going to be dead "by-catch" over the side. this happening every minute sickens me way more than one guy keeping a 70 pound bass once in his life.