Catch and Release

[Fish-Bait]

I would like your input on Catch and Release fishing. Please vote! (Consider this practice for the upcoming elections):clap:

[gonefishin]

Keep only what you're going to eat in my opinion. Some people are strictly catch and release which is fine too.

[jmack]

Who thought up this sport?

[Fish-Bait]

Who thought up this sport?

A hungry caveman.

[jmb]

Most of the time we keep the big ones and release the rest. If we don't eat them that day, we freeze them up and save 'em for a rainy day. And sometimes we don't catch enough to feed the family so we freeze them and add to them until there's enough for a mess. Sometimes though if they're not biting good, we don't want to mess with cleaning a few and throw them back for another day.

[Fish-Bait]

I wouldn't let me pick the top 3 and I couldn't honestly go with the top 4.
I don't trow back bream. As my gandpaw use to say, "If deys big enuff to bite, deys big enuff to eat." I remember a lot of little bream being fryed so crisp you ate the whole thing, bones and all, like tater chips.

I don't keep large bass, there's just little flavor there. Bream is my favorite tasting freshwater fish.

I abide by the salt water limit 'cause I don't care to get my ass in a crack, and those wardens take no prisoners.

I didn't set it to multiple choice. I had figured I covered it all and then boom....here you come along.....:smt118:-D
bream are good to eat. I got a couple dozen in the freezer just waitin' for me to get off my lazy butt and fry em'.

[bpitt]

Typically, if it don't eat me first, I eat it. I'll throw the small ones back. As for as saltwater, you gotta play by their rules. Sometimes though, I just fish for the hell of it, just to piss of PETA.

[58ford]

For me it depends on the state of the local fishery. Bluegills in a pond all go to the pan. Trout in the Smokies all let go.

[Fish-Bait]

I just fish for the hell of it, just to piss of PETA.

Yeah, like "swingin'" a hardhead catfish off of your line.:-D

[bpitt]

Been there, done that brother. I usually smack'em in the head with my pliers, kill'em, them toss'em back, the little turd eaters.

[bpitt]

For me it depends on the state of the local fishery. Bluegills in a pond all go to the pan. Trout in the Smokies all let go.
Acid rain won't kill you, will it?

[58ford]

Acid rain won't kill you, will it?
Only if you're Al Gore.

[bpitt]

Then why throw back the trout from the Smokies? Are they infected with something? I'm going in October, just needed a heads up.

[Fish-Bait]

I generally don't keep any of the trout I catch up in the National Park outside of Gatlinburg. They aren't that big and the fishery seems really fragile. Last time I went up there I kept 3 browns and a rainbow my last day. Now when I fished the Chatahoochie all the fish were stocked so out of prolly 60 or so I caught I think I brought home 25.
bpitt, if you are going up around gatlinburg go to Greenbrier State park. Go all the way to the top till you can't drive anymore and look at those trout in that hole. There used to be some nice ones up there. I wish I would have revisited it the last time I was up there. That creek is loaded with little brookies (a few big ones mixed in two) Black, brown, white rooster tails on that creek. You cant fish any higher up than the park boundary though.

[Butterball]

What's with all this 'sport' stuff.

I was brought up "Catch & Eat"

Grandad always said "if they're

big enough to bite, they're big

enough to stink the grease".....

spoken like a true Southerner who

lived through the Depression!!


Actually, I try to abide by limits

and eat it if I keep it !

In a pond, if you throw back all

the small ones, you'll wind up

with a pond full of small ones!

Off the coast I abide by the size

limit but have been known to bring

back an extra one or two.... but not often.

[jmb]

I chose 1-4 because I do a combination of them EXCEPT that I don't keep over the limit. We only fish in private farm ponds here and there is no limit. BUT if there were a limit, I would abide by it. Just wanted to clear that up. :)

[Conveyor Belt]

After doing it in Disney World one time, I really like the challenge of fishing on barbless hooks. Fun, fun fun!!!

[Fish-Bait]

After doing it in Disney World one time, I really like the challenge of fishing on barbless hooks. Fun, fun fun!!!

You know belt, I don't think I have ever been to a place where you had to use barbless. If I have I just can't remember it.

[Baloo]

My Dad taught us to throw the babies and big breeders back and only keep what we are going to eat... He also taught us that when we are fishing strictly catch and release, which we often do, clip the barbs on the hooks so that we don't hurt the fish... I just love fishin', no matter if we are keepin em or not... nothin like fresh fish you just caught fried or grilled up for supper...

[big john]

After doing it in Disney World one time, I really like the challenge of fishing on barbless hooks. Fun, fun fun!!!Even more fun is to fish with just the line with a knot tied on the end :clap::clap::clap::clap:
when the fish tug at it you have to jerk it up as hard as you can and if the fish is locked on to it when you do this it sends them flying up in the air then you catch em in your net.YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!

[dasmybaby]

i'm going fishing this weekend with family, and i'm so freakin' excited!!! my freezer's sayin' "here fishy fishy fishy fishy!!!!"

[Conveyor Belt]

At Walt Disney World's Port Orleans Resort, they have a 'Fishin Hole', which is basically this 1/2 acre pond situated above one of their other larger water bodies. Anyhow, the water is crystal clear. For $4.50, you get a 1/2 hour of fishing with a cane pole and a cup of worms. The hooks are all barbless, because it's strictly catch and release, and these fish get caught many times a day, which brings up the issue of learning how to bait a hook to fool a fish that gets caught many times a day.

http://www.wdwplanner.com/Images/Port%20Orleans%20Riverside/fishinghole.jpg

You go out on the pier and there are bass and bream and catfish swimming in the water below. Bait your hook and drop it in the water and watch the fish. Man, if they even get a hint that there's a hook in the worm, they'll pass. We got to the point where we'd drop a few worms in the water along with the baited worm and try to fool them by causing a mini feeding frenzy. It was about the only way to get them. I got pretty good at baiting the hook to fool the fish. I'd never had to do that before with a fish. It was definitely a learning lesson on fish behavior! Nothing like watching the fish go back and forth, trying to make it's mind up about whether or not it wants to eat your worm...

[pimpalert]

Catch and Release? That's like knocking someone over the head, stealing their purse, then giving it back to them.

[Fish-Bait]

Catch and Release? That's like knocking someone over the head, stealing their purse, then giving it back to them.

Yeah, but what are you goin' to steal from a fish? You gonna squeeze him and steal his poop? Oh, I got it, you think you can steal a scale and weigh some of that pimalert dope on it....hahahahahahahaha you must me a LP!:laugh::laugh::laugh:

[Fish-Bait]

If you haven't voted please do. This is the first poll I have done. It'll close tomorrow morning at 9:30.

I want to thank everyone that has voted ahead of time.
Fish-Bait!

[dasmybaby]

i'm not plannin on releasing any this weekend, unless they're just too small. they're going to visit some much colder water.... in my freezer!

[EricStratton]

Man....somebody mentioned bream fishin'.....Mr. Stokes who lived off OG Road used to let us fish behind his house in his pond....he had this pellet looking stuff he used to feed those bream off his pier.....We'd spread some of that around, then bait our hooks with a piece of it and catch them suckers like they stole something from us.....Yeah...I know...not much sport in that, but it was fun, and we'd have to take turns carrying that stringer home it was so full.....Good Times! Thanks, Mr. Stokes....

[dasmybaby]

i'm going after trouts :-D

[Ted]

i'm not plannin on releasing any this weekend, unless they're just too small. - - - - - - - Some of us call those Bait.;)

[Fish-Bait]

Thanks again everyone, Sorry I made the poll public, it's my first time to do a poll on here.