Eat your catch or release?

JaSla74

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Re: Eat your catch or release?

I release what I don't want to eat.
 

Part-time

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Re: Eat your catch or release?

I release... into the frypan!
I don't even need to take my boat out to go fishing. I just stand at the end of my dock and cast out.
A few cast with a red devil on the end of the line will usualy land me a northern or a musky.
I do have to take my boat out and take a 2 minut ride if I want pickerel.
 

sasto

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Good luck, Sasto. Catch a big one! Don't forget pix.......;)

Thanks, WIMUSKY. Since I was a young'un growing up in WV I have always wanted a Musky. We didn't have that many, which made my desire more prevalent. My Boy Scout leader would take me to his favorite hole. Those lures we used were about as big as I was. If anybody could catch one, it was him. (RIP Perry Adams, you made a little man out of this young boy) We would come home without catching one many times.

I have made Perry proud many times fom his teachings. He was a wise and spiritual man. I was lucky to have him around. A big smile will come from the heavens when I land that big Musky. I won't give up! :D
 

aspeck

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Hey sasto, mostly troll for musky around here ... About 8 hours of trolling per 40+ incher. Mud flats about 20 feet deep. Great fun. Just shy of the magical 50 here. Did make it over the 30 lb mark, however. Come up and spend a few days and bring a deep sea trolling rod. We will get you to hang a musky.
 

Davem3

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catch and release, unless it is really a good big one, then release into frying pan

a bad day of fishin' still beats a GOOD day at work.................
 

Captain Shikaboo

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I apply the lazy approach: I catch and release. The first fish I catch that I like to eat will decide what restaraunt I eat at when I head home.

Where did that rabbit with the pancake go?
 

coastalrichard

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I obey the four step rule for catch and release:

Step 1 - Catch a keeperimages.jpg

Step 2 - trim excessimagesCA2AA42V.jpg

Step 3 - initial release into the oil with some pupsimagesCAFR0HCR.jpg

Step 4 - final release to the tableimagesCA8EUQV3.jpg

Help me if my technique needs any modifications:D
 

Captain Shikaboo

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It does need mods coastal, It needs to happen on my patio!! :D

Looks delicious! I love homemade hush puppies!
 

sasto

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Hey sasto, mostly troll for musky around here ... About 8 hours of trolling per 40+ incher. Mud flats about 20 feet deep. Great fun. Just shy of the magical 50 here. Did make it over the 30 lb mark, however. Come up and spend a few days and bring a deep sea trolling rod. We will get you to hang a musky.

I just may be up your area in the fall, aspeck. Planning on taking a couple months off. Hope to see you....OK, bluewater poles it is!

Thanks for the invite.:D
 

aspeck

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I just may be up your area in the fall, aspeck. Planning on taking a couple months off. Hope to see you....OK, bluewater poles it is!

Thanks for the invite.:D
Always an invite for you, my friend. Always. (Just give me the dates early so I can be sure to be out of town, er, I mean so I can be available. That's it, available! LOL!)

I am looking at the possibility of being in your area in August. If that happens I will let you know.
 

sasto

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Always an invite for you, my friend. Always. (Just give me the dates early so I can be sure to be out of town, er, I mean so I can be available. That's it, available! LOL!)

I am looking at the possibility of being in your area in August. If that happens I will let you know.

Very good, Art. May we get together again soon.
 

canoemang

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I never have fish in the freezer..ever.

I practice catch and release to keep the fisheries alive and it seems as though most of the generations ahead of me didn't.

I have a lot of buddies whos dad's must have taught them to keep everything and freeze it and keep everything again..

Ill keep a meals worth once in awhile, but if i do it is going to get eaten that day or night.
 

bouttime007

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I dont really eat fish, so I release 98% of what I catch.

Sometimes I'll bring a few brookies over to Dad if I have a good haul though.
 
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it seems as though most of the generations ahead of me didn't.

Nothing against your comment canoemang, but a comment in general. The lack of fish today really has little to do with the recreational fisher keeping catch. Between pollution and commercial fishing/netting, the populations have been decimated. Your keeping or releasing, my guess, would not amount to a hill of beans. I remember fishing the Everglades as a kid and catching dozens of bass at a time. Then Big Sugar began and its pollution, then the Corps of Engineers redirected waterways, and before you knew it the Everglades was dying...and no one could understand why. Morons. They should have gone to the fishermen and asked...we could have told them. Unfortunately, this is repeated throughout the world.
 

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Nothing against your comment canoemang, but a comment in general. The lack of fish today really has little to do with the recreational fisher keeping catch. Between pollution and commercial fishing/netting, the populations have been decimated. Your keeping or releasing, my guess, would not amount to a hill of beans. I remember fishing the Everglades as a kid and catching dozens of bass at a time. Then Big Sugar began and its pollution, then the Corps of Engineers redirected waterways, and before you knew it the Everglades was dying...and no one could understand why. Morons. They should have gone to the fishermen and asked...we could have told them. Unfortunately, this is repeated throughout the world.

They killed the Great Black Swamp even before the Glades. They knew what they were doing.
 
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