Personally, i am a little disappointed with myself if I don't bring home my limit........................

Pretty sure I put back more legal fish in most years than I keep.. Only took 1 time years ago getting chastised for keeping bass, by some 10 year old with his dad in a sparkly bass boat.. Boat landing experience like that one. Make me what to cut a legal bass up the belly throw on the bank next to him..Love how some of them die hard catch and release bass guys, keep every legal walleye they catch while bass fishing.

I believe to each his own if your with in the law just go and fish.


Mac

Mostly I keep a meal of Bluegills ...bass and northerns go back.

I fish memorial day weekend and labor day weekend while i'm camping pretty hard usually. Coincidentally there is usually a bass fishing tournament then. Makes sense. Man they lose their minds when they see a boat not in the tournament catching fish and putting them in the livewell.

Yea, the tourney guys need to screw off. Goes back to the law. Its legal, and despite you not wanting to keep any, how dare you chastise me for it?

most of them kill more than the meat fisherman they just don't wanna admit it and loose their fuzzy feeling.that being said,thank god i don't have to eat bass.

bass are prolific breeders. make a good fillet sandwich also. if your legal, if your not just killing for fun only, killing for food, money, or to protect livestock or other property, I say tell anyone that has a problem with it to stick their head in the lake and scream till they feel better.

i'm one of those people that you don't wanna let know something bothers ya.kinda like to take it and run with it.

i release 99% of what i catch.
most of my fishing is for relaxing on the water and sport, not food.

when i do keep fish, in freshwater, its only what I'm going to eat over the next few days.
saltwater I'll keep more in the freezer for later

keep in mind they say 10 percent of the people catch 90 percent of the fish.

They don't call them pan fish because they have a handle.

It amazes me when people try to tell others what to do. There are times when I go fishing and dont intend to keep a single fish. Most of the time I go fishing for something to eat. I want to get 2 meals minimum of crappie(at a place with no limit) or bluegill. Granted it depends on if Im in the mood to clean fish or how many Im in the mood to clean.

Fillet and Release is my motto...

Catch and release into the live well is what I practice if I want to eat them (today or ?) , I keep the ones I like up to the limit. Most bass are released because I don't care for them. Trout are fun to catch but poor table fare imo. Cold water crappie, walleye, blues & flats are the best for me. And I don't know who Lee Wulff is but next time someone sees him please tell him I appreciate him training the fish to bite a hook. Easiser to fill the freezer.

I converted my entire boat into a fish fryer. If a fish comes in my boat, it's cooked before I can make a decision. Lol.

Trout and bass will always make it back to the water, unless I hook them bad. Crappie and blue come home if they're of decent size. As for cats, they all make it home, as long as they're legal. Wife might kill me if I didn't lol.

Sometimes.

I keep fish like a democrat I'm going to keep all fish legal to keep …...but think you all should all catch and release and worry that too much catch and release may inadvertently hurt populations . then to many boats pollute the water sooooo .I'm the only one smart enough to decide what fish can be fished for so you all need to just stay off public water ill take care of it for you .

When I was a pup, my dad and I would keep all the bullheads and bluegills, and clean them. He loved fish, I do not like the fishy taste and I really hated cleaning them. I never keep fish, always give to whoever I am fishing with, or put back in the water however I do enjoy fishing. My son, who loves eating fish as much as dad did, just found out last year that it's legal to keep fish here! He was not too happy with me after finding out that catch and release all these years, were my rules, not the states! I told him I would teach him how to clean fish, and after all these years it came right back to me. Not how to do it, how much I hate it!

I do not keep a limit just because I can. I will keep some, but not usually a full limit. We got fish in the freezer and every couple years find ourselves throwing some out because its really old. I love to eat fish, but get tired of cleaning them all the time and sometimes just dont have the time or energy to clean them, and just dont need the fish at the time either. It actually makes me feel good to throw back a 10lb wiper. They keep getting bigger lol. Crappie are a different story because when we catch them, we usually cook them that night, and they are some tastey little fish.