Why Catch and Release Got Started

[Garyv]

I posted this picture many years back and since many on this board have come and gone so I thought I would post it one more time. It was taken in 1911 about 400 feet from where I live today on Lower Lake Huron. Sorry for the quality but the picture was emailed to me after being taken at a local museum.

 

The caption reads

"The total catch of 143 fish included 28 Perch and 115 Black Bass Seventy fish were given away before the picture was taken" No one realized then what would/could happen but must admit it had to be one heck of a good time for these two guys!

 

[vance]

My dad is only a few years younger than this picture and an avid fisherman ,always said if you are not going to eat it today put it back and catch it later when you will.

 

vance

[PERCHER]

Vance that sounds like a very good saying.

[snag]

First timing seeing it.

 

Wonder who got the privelage of cleaning?

 

Thanks

[Eddyk]

You have to love those old pictures. Thanks.

[fishdawg]

the guy on the right sorta looks like crappiesteve

[Rizzo]

That IS crappiesteve, saw him wearing those exact pantaloons just last week.

[GbayGiant]

I hope his wife was good at cleaning fish.

[OhioFisherman]

http://www.ofncommunity.com/forums/index.php?showuser=547

 

Wow still looks good after all theses years! LOL

[fishindevil]

wow....gotta love those early fishing pics,i saw one where they had about 30 muskies they caught while dragging a net through their spawning areas in wisconsin around the 1920's they had no clue back then about conservation or letting the fish spawn ...oh well im glad thats not the case anymore...cheers

[Guest gbfisher]

 

different spieces and sizes..

 

..I'd call that selective harvest.

[Greencoachdog]

If it's got a pair of eyes and a butthole... It's A Keeper!!!

[Canuck2fan]

Now if we could only get the commercial fishing boats to practice catch and release on the Great Lakes.... They still take catches 20 to 200 times that big everyday they go out.

[POLLIWOGG]

C+R was started because the sport fishing industry sponsored TV fishing shows were breaking the law every show and the regs were changed to suit the poachers. Unlimited C+R was not legal till I think somewhere in the 80's. Before C+R the limit was a catch limit not a keep limit but was not enforced.