I didn't mean you, but there are people who do. I put a picture like this on and you'll see them from time to time...




BUT, all released,,,,



Still get judged for not rod and reeling them. lol You just can't please everyone.

~ADC~

I catch fish year round, so there's no reason to freeze a bunch.

Fresh, never frozen fish is the best!

When my wife and I go to Lac Seul we experience 100 walleye days sometimes, does not happen every day. We keep a couple take home guys and shore lunch, let 95 guys back into the water. Same with northern pike, whitefish and whatever else we might hook into. Never had a need to keep over my limit, a guy can only eat so many fish.

Zim

I like to eat fish but I usually never bring home limits. Maybe a couple of meals worth. I am the only one in the house that enjoys fish. I don't like to freeze them.

....if I wanted the fish to be swimming in the water instead of in my grease I wouldn’t bother catching them at all lol

It's hard for me to kill any trout I catch. Once in a great while one will take a fly all the way into it's gills. If that happens, and the fish bleeds heavily, I will creel it.

I keep the good eaters pretty often-perch, walleye channel cats...

Same here. I feel very badly if a trout deep-throats a hook...Jane Fonda style.

I keep em in the spring when the water is cold,May and early June.I don't like eating fish from warm water,so I don't fish in summer,except for a few cold water stream brookies if I am doing nuisance beaver work.October is a great time to fish here,and the fish are good eating then,but I am busy on the trapline that time of year.

We eat fish 2-3 times a week in my house with a family of 4 and usually other relatives over for dinner most of the time as well. Usually a big fish fry for 15 people or so every weekend. If the law says I can keep em they go in the box

PA trout are nothing but farm-raised put and takes. Don't know why anybody would want to mess with them. Maybe to make fish oil...

Lug, you don't know where to fish.

I keep very few usually 4 steelhead a year that I smoke for the holidays.I may keep 6 salmon a year and I catch a lot of steelhead and salmon.On trip last year we brought 23 steelhead to the boat it was an epic day for four of us fishing and we kept one14 lb male.

I don't fish for put and takes.

Thanks for the thoughtful replies. If it is legal, no one should judge anyone else. I may actually start keeping more fish.

Thanks for the replies! Keep em comin

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in your boat making up lies and drink all your beer.

Zim

Catch and release 95% of the time....but a Salmon and a Good size Brookie always make it to the pan.

Quite a few streams with native and wild trout if a guy can catch them.
I fish a few put and take streams, but when there's a heavy hatch going on, I enjoy catching and releasing lots of fish, especially the streams and rivers that have lots of hold-overs swimming around.

Some motivation... lol

Dang ADC! That looks awesome! I gotta get the propane fryer set up at the cabin now!

Yeah same here,

They say though that prolific fish like crappie and such you should keep them to the limit of legal? Not a biologist at all but seem to remember a discussion about this especially in ponds?

I love fish as a meal and fish a lot, freezing them is not on my agenda? If you do more power to you! All about eating, lol

I fish blue crabs a lot too, just had crab cakes and scallops for super. Crab and scallops and such I will freeze but it doesn't last long! Wife knows it is in there and it is the first to go!

J