My lord fellas...true or not..
..if he kept a few bass for the table...it's not a crime...For the love of god....go fishing this weekend!...All of you!
RJ
Bass Fishing today
What is the big deal with pictures? I fish because I enjoy it and because I love to eat fish. I don't need a pat on the back for catching bass. I only shared a report because the clique complained I never do. I've shared my last few outings and now they want more.
Get a life guys.
For the guys wanting to catch the challanging smallies, minnow on a #2 circle hook is the skill involved.
Get a life guys.
For the guys wanting to catch the challanging smallies, minnow on a #2 circle hook is the skill involved.
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MattSymons
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Million Angler, Catch-and-Release Sermon
Never said it was a crime, only that in my humble opinion as a conservationist and smallie lover, keeping a healthy four pound bass is a shame. At that size she's probably a female, all set to replenish the stocks. Or, in this case maybe not. I never even fish the Ottawa, I live in the Dot.
I ate a smallie this summer that died from a brain-to-hook experience and it tasted very nice. I just don't want to be lamenting about how you used to get big bass here, and you used to get big bass there in twenty years when I'm fishing with the kid I'm going to have.
Case in point. I did a seven-day canoe trip into the a remote system of lakes this past bass opener. We anticipated big fish due to the remoteness of the location, athough a fly-in and a shuttle-in outfitter operate on the system Three portages with seven days of supplies. This was supposed to be my money, lunker trip for the year. There are no walleye in these lakes, only bass and pike. We had planned to eat a pike or two on this trip, but we hooked only one, twice. A really nice fish over 40" that bit off my Bass Magnet frog, then hit a spinnerbait immediately but rubbed me off in a jungle of timber. Pike were very scarce. Fished out? You be the judge.
What we found was bass carcasses from what used to be three-to-five pound bass at several sites we visited, left over from pre-season shore lunches. From fresh ones dispatched the day before the opener to carcasses several weeks old (strewn about a campsite and infecting it with ants that chased us away after 15-minutes). Lots of carcasses. Dozens. And the snapping turtles were gargantuan, fat like garbage bears.
We caught mostly dinks, hundreds of dinks. The largest single fish we caught approached four pounds, but fish over two pounds were few-and-far between. As a side note the garbage in this system was made me embarrassed as an outdoorsman. Northern Ontario, trash bin.
I don't condemn anyone who takes fish for the table now and then. But there are millions of us, not just people, millions of anglers. Do the math. If you genuniely enjoy fishing, catch-and-release is just the right thing to do with big fish. Can I get an Amen?
Like I said I'm not trying to offend or condemn anyone here. Just, this is an important issue and I enjoy a chance to debate it and put it in the foreground to see how people feel about it. After all, its cold out.
I ate a smallie this summer that died from a brain-to-hook experience and it tasted very nice. I just don't want to be lamenting about how you used to get big bass here, and you used to get big bass there in twenty years when I'm fishing with the kid I'm going to have.
Case in point. I did a seven-day canoe trip into the a remote system of lakes this past bass opener. We anticipated big fish due to the remoteness of the location, athough a fly-in and a shuttle-in outfitter operate on the system Three portages with seven days of supplies. This was supposed to be my money, lunker trip for the year. There are no walleye in these lakes, only bass and pike. We had planned to eat a pike or two on this trip, but we hooked only one, twice. A really nice fish over 40" that bit off my Bass Magnet frog, then hit a spinnerbait immediately but rubbed me off in a jungle of timber. Pike were very scarce. Fished out? You be the judge.
What we found was bass carcasses from what used to be three-to-five pound bass at several sites we visited, left over from pre-season shore lunches. From fresh ones dispatched the day before the opener to carcasses several weeks old (strewn about a campsite and infecting it with ants that chased us away after 15-minutes). Lots of carcasses. Dozens. And the snapping turtles were gargantuan, fat like garbage bears.
We caught mostly dinks, hundreds of dinks. The largest single fish we caught approached four pounds, but fish over two pounds were few-and-far between. As a side note the garbage in this system was made me embarrassed as an outdoorsman. Northern Ontario, trash bin.
I don't condemn anyone who takes fish for the table now and then. But there are millions of us, not just people, millions of anglers. Do the math. If you genuniely enjoy fishing, catch-and-release is just the right thing to do with big fish. Can I get an Amen?
Like I said I'm not trying to offend or condemn anyone here. Just, this is an important issue and I enjoy a chance to debate it and put it in the foreground to see how people feel about it. After all, its cold out.
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Oh boy, it's gonna be a long winter indeed.
Taylor did nothing illegal, so let's not shoot him for the choice he made to catch and keep legal smallies for food. I don't personally eat bass, but there's nothing wrong with someone else doing it, whether we as individuals condone it or not....it's allowed as long as the fish are in season.
Again, unfortunately Taylor you've been labeled. Hopefully you didn't post that message with no photo's just for the reaction bite....cause on a public message board, that's what you're going to get. If it's a report, then it would be a good idea to show some good photos, while still alive preferably, and tell the story about how you caught them and the fun you had doing it. I don't think anyone is really interested in knowing what's in your freezer. It's a just the choices you make for posts always seem to be those to get the reaction. I'll give you benefit of the doubt, but you may want to consider adding some content to your reports.....or take a break.
For everyone else, if you don't agree with people's choices, and I'm referring to anyone's choices, just state your oppinion on the subject, and move on. Let's not get into singling people out. Respect, Reply, or Ignore.
I think we've beat this one enough. On to the next........
Oh boy, it's gonna be a long winter indeed.
Taylor did nothing illegal, so let's not shoot him for the choice he made to catch and keep legal smallies for food. I don't personally eat bass, but there's nothing wrong with someone else doing it, whether we as individuals condone it or not....it's allowed as long as the fish are in season.
Again, unfortunately Taylor you've been labeled. Hopefully you didn't post that message with no photo's just for the reaction bite....cause on a public message board, that's what you're going to get. If it's a report, then it would be a good idea to show some good photos, while still alive preferably, and tell the story about how you caught them and the fun you had doing it. I don't think anyone is really interested in knowing what's in your freezer. It's a just the choices you make for posts always seem to be those to get the reaction. I'll give you benefit of the doubt, but you may want to consider adding some content to your reports.....or take a break.
For everyone else, if you don't agree with people's choices, and I'm referring to anyone's choices, just state your oppinion on the subject, and move on. Let's not get into singling people out. Respect, Reply, or Ignore.
I think we've beat this one enough. On to the next........
Rob Atkinson
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