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Catch n Release or Catch to eat?

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Poll: Catch n Release or Catch to eat?  

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  1. 1. Catch n Release or Catch to Eat - What do you do?

    • 100% Catch n Release
      10
    • Mostly Catch n Release but occasionally eat a fish caught
      116
    • Target certain fish for eating and put others back
      73
    • 100% Fish to Eat - keep everything within the regs limits
      5

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Patches Minnow

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I believe an important part of healthy fish stocks is to catch and eat.

 

I try to only keep the small and mid-size fish and always release the big breeders (unless the are injured or came from very deep water).

 

I always also keep stocked fish (Chinooks, Coho and Steelhead) as they're are stocked for us to eat and not breeding (sucessfully) in the wild.

 

With Pan fish and Walleye I always keep the "eater size"

 

For bass, I try to kept a limit of under 2lbers each trip, and all the big guys go back.

 

I wish more people would use this method. It's good for the fish and the future fish would all come for bigger genetic strains.

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JerseyDog Almost a Guide

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I'm always looking for the perfect fish for dinner and I never can seem to catch it. And when I do, I usually like it so much, I toss 'em back anyway.

 

I mostly just keep the bad bleeders and I guess the Pickerel (if I could ever actually catch one).

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setomonkey Guide

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#2 for me.

 

I keep only a few fish every year, usually a trout or walleye caught on my annual week-long trip (coming up really soon!). I'm not good at cleaning fish so I have almost never kept perch for the table, even though it is my favourite kind of fish.

 

Mike

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if im really tired and dont feel like cleaning fish, they stay there. but this doesnt happen too often so i usually bring some home for a meal. bass, catfish, panfish, pike, pickeral, trout, salmon, smelt, and the list goes on. muskie is pretty good too yet everyone says it tastes bad?

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danw Net Attendant

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I fish less than a dozen times a year. I keep a few panfish for the pan if they are a good size. I don't land on much other types of fish, mostly get small bass which goes back. If I am lucky I might get to keep few 2lb sized bass for the year.

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# 3 for me mostly perch as i really do love it and its damn yummy!..Only ever kept two bass which was last summer fishing & camping up north. Allthough they tasted great i have tryed them now and does not interest me to keep another one to eat!. So i basically keep the perch i catch and everything else i fish for is released back into the water.

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Rich Clemens All Knowing Angler

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Pretty much catch and release. On one of our trips for bass, we'll keep 2 to have a fish fry. Other than these couple, everything else is released. Of course .. the Lakair fish fry and derby may be a bit of a different story. As I was skunked for both ... my routine stands firm. (Just you all wait until next year).

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#2, I fish for the fun of it, and have been pretty much on a quest for the next trophy sized fish of many species for over the last 25 years.

 

I will keep the odd chunky pike if it's hooked bad and might not make it(generally I don't fish with cranks loaded with hooks because of this)

 

otherwise I keep maybe 6-8 fish a year that's it..more often than not it's less than that...so say 8 fish out of hundreds a year, not a bad ratio :Gonefishing: ..last year I kept 2 pike and 4 walleye all year, I don't like eating fish all that much and don't like salmanoids, I kept 1 rainbow this past winter season out of probably 100 I caught cuz I weighed it in for a derby. That one I donated to my neighbour when i got home.

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My doctor says I need more omega-free-fatty-ass !!!!!!

 

 

So ... I keep the following (within regs) ... rainbow, specks, salmon, brown, pickeral, whitefish .... most saltwater gamefish on the RARE occasion I get to fish for them.

 

But I Normally dont keep Bass, Pike (actually I do sometimes) , Musky (cant take the wrath of the Musky hunters and dont like to kill anything older than 4 years anyways), perch ... too many have to die for a meal :)

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cranks bait Guide

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Last year I kept all my walleye I caught for the table, all one of them. Also kept about 6-10 bass through the season, mostly small. Had to eat a four pounder because it was not going to live. I was really embarassed and felt bad because it was a big one. I try to stick around 2.5. For the amount I fish, that is not much.

 

My wife this year keeps telling me when I go out to get dinner. So far there has been no dinner. Have to make her stop saying that.

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