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big_p
Minnow Username: big_p
Post Number: 9 Registered: 7-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Monday, August 9, 2004 - 9:14 pm: |
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Do you practice it and if so on what species do you do it on? |
picou
Minnow Username: picou
Post Number: 28 Registered: 8-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Monday, August 9, 2004 - 9:47 pm: |
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Personally, I practice catch and release on Bass all of the time. If I have plenty of fish in the freezer, I also practice catch and release on sand bass & stripers. If I can get at least 5 crappie in the box, I keep them. Same goes for catfish. When the freezer is running low or empty, I keep catfish, crappie, sandies, and stripers. Everything else I throw back. Personally, I prefer to throw them all back. But, I sure do like eating fresh fish. It drives my wife nutts, but to me it is more about catching them than number that I keep. I don't hold it against anyone who wants to keep every legal fish they catch as long as they do not go to waste. I just hate cleaning fish. Good question "P"... Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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big_p
Minnow Username: big_p
Post Number: 10 Registered: 7-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 11:26 am: |
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I release every bass I catch no matter what the size. If I am out fishing for crappie or catfish I am fishing for the meat so I keep everything that is legal. I only fish for stipers and sandies once or twice a year. So it just kind of depends on my mood on what I do with them. |
audra
Minnow Username: audra
Post Number: 3 Registered: 8-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 10:01 pm: |
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If we get into stripers or sandies, we will keep them if it's worth the trouble to clean. If they aren't really biting, we turn them all back. I don't eat fish, but everybody else in the family does, so I love to help contribute to the feeding of my family! |
charles
Minnow Username: charles
Post Number: 9 Registered: 7-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 10:07 pm: |
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I pratice C&R on most occasions. However, I have been known to keep under the slot LMB. |
chad
Minnow Username: chad
Post Number: 4 Registered: 8-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 10:50 pm: |
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I nearly always practive Catch and Release, we have a ranch with 2 big rivers going through it, and thats my main fishing locations. So I dont wanna fish it all out, we have kept 3 bass, 1 crappie, 2 yellowcats and quite a few perch in the 8 years that we have owned it. But I enjoy just catching them, I'm with Picou, I'm not crazy about cleaning fish. -Chad Critchfield-
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bluecat
Minnow Username: bluecat
Post Number: 5 Registered: 8-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 8:42 pm: |
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We eat fish once per week..Electric knife does wonders. M&M
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picou
Minnow Username: picou
Post Number: 70 Registered: 8-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 9:18 pm: |
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I like that cleaning setup.. nice mess of fillets also. I remember the good ole' days (last year and previous years) when I always had fish in the freezer. We would either have fried fish, BBQ fish, or baked fish every week. I have not done anything other than 4 bass trips this year and my freezer is void of fish. It has been months since I have fried fish at home. I am a sorry excuse for a fisherman... Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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Barnaclebill
Minnow Username: Barnaclebill
Post Number: 48 Registered: 8-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 12:33 am: |
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Mike that kind of behavior will get ya on "the list" around here hehehe Born to fish-Forced to work
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Picou
Bluegill Username: Picou
Post Number: 250 Registered: 8-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 9:21 am: |
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I have since taken care of it and hopefully gotten off the list... Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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Fishinaggie88
Minnow Username: Fishinaggie88
Post Number: 86 Registered: 8-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 9:29 am: |
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I will C&R most of the time in fresh water, will keep Crappie, the occasional catfish or white bass. Will keep Flounder, specs and some reds when in Saltwater, to a point. Like to keep fish in the freezer so I can have it every couple of weeks. Love to fish and hunt.
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Barnaclebill
Minnow Username: Barnaclebill
Post Number: 51 Registered: 8-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 8:00 pm: |
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I don't keep LMB, don't really the taste of them, but will keep whites and crappie, and of course bottom dwellers (Gatos) Born to fish-Forced to work
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Javelin
Minnow Username: Javelin
Post Number: 25 Registered: 8-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 8:39 pm: |
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I throw 99.9% of my bass back, but do keep some when friends want one or two. Also, if and when I ever catch a big un he is going straight to the taxidermist, just don't like replicas even if they do look real. |
Barnaclebill
Minnow Username: Barnaclebill
Post Number: 59 Registered: 8-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 12:48 am: |
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Mike, the jury ius still out on you being on "the List" just for admitting it I might just endow myself to be "the Lister" Born to fish-Forced to work
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Picou
Bluegill Username: Picou
Post Number: 266 Registered: 8-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Sunday, August 29, 2004 - 10:38 pm: |
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Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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