Here's the kind of bass you are SUPPOSED to catch. I caught this one and 5 more like it on a private pond for a local Sciences center's 500g aquarium. Yes, I have a permit.
My heart was nearly broken - how i almost hung up my poles - can you help?
- Thread starter Redearsunfish
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i went fishing last week at night. caught some kind of grouper. dude litterally swallowed the hook. couldnt get it out and it was late at night. so i just yanked it out and it died.
you mad OP?
took it home and made soup out of it. it was delicious nom sayin?
you mad OP?
took it home and made soup out of it. it was delicious nom sayin?
man, this thread ........ i wont say any more regarding the original post but some of you people are now giving anglers a bad name, ripping out hooks? come on man. hopefully you were just messing about and know that if a fish takes a hook too far down then you simply cut the line ( uncouted steel hooks will rust away in time)
My final comment is that fishing is a relaxing pastime and energetic sport, catching and relleasing is my practice but i don't have anything agaisnt those who dont do it, thats your choice. At the end of the day, catching these beautiful fish is a privilege and in the day and age you shouldnt need to catch and eat wild fish, buy it at a supermarket but again, if the laws and regulations say you can then go for it, you have every right too.
Have a good one-
Dazz
My final comment is that fishing is a relaxing pastime and energetic sport, catching and relleasing is my practice but i don't have anything agaisnt those who dont do it, thats your choice. At the end of the day, catching these beautiful fish is a privilege and in the day and age you shouldnt need to catch and eat wild fish, buy it at a supermarket but again, if the laws and regulations say you can then go for it, you have every right too.
Have a good one-
Dazz
thought you weren't going to say anything about the original post? you basically contradicted yourself by saying it's okay to fish for a meal but tell people to buy them from a supermarket instead of catching their own (how do you think they got there? a fish hatchery? Commercial fishing okay, fishing for your own meal not okay in your book? why pay for shipping, transportation cost, price mark ups etc etc when you can do it yourself for cheaper price PLUS the memories.......and theoritically help the environment?). i just try to respect everyone's style of fishing because at the end of the day, we're all going to have great fishing storeis to share regardless of catch and release or frying em up
Buying fish from market sounds terrible idea to me. The fish from super market doesn't taste same thing as the wild fish, especially trout and catfish. Farmed trout fillets often be grey-colored while the wild trout fillets are pink and very tasty. Buying a walleye fillet from the supermarket can be very expensive than a limit of 6 walleyes....say about $8 to 12 per pound and that's not enough for a family dinner. Not all gamefish make to the supermarket, are you expecting that crappie/sunfish/perch fillets will show up in supermarket? I doubt it. But advise us to not eat the wild fish sounds terrible advice. It's only an opinion.
As i was saying, people will do as they wish, if you want to catch and eat wild cought fish and its not against the law (size and catch limit) then i see no problem with that as i said originaly that in this day an age you shouldnt need to catch and eat fish when there are perfectly good fish in the supermarket, atleast there are where i go. That and most water ways arnt exactly clean what with polution, waste, blue green algea etc etc.
Going over my past posts i see nothing to say ive contradicted myself mate.
As ive stated plenty of times in this thread , this is fishing and there are plenty of different types, some like myself fish for the sport of it and prefer to release the fish, some keep the fish and use them for live/dead bait and some fish for a good meal and i never said there was anything wrong with that, i love a good bit of fish myself, like barra for example.
later
Going over my past posts i see nothing to say ive contradicted myself mate.
As ive stated plenty of times in this thread , this is fishing and there are plenty of different types, some like myself fish for the sport of it and prefer to release the fish, some keep the fish and use them for live/dead bait and some fish for a good meal and i never said there was anything wrong with that, i love a good bit of fish myself, like barra for example.
later
It is your opinion, not an advice. Do you have any ideas how the farmed fish were raised under the conditions? Most fish in markets don't come from the hatchery, especially the walleyes which often were caught from the wild and you tell us that most water ways weren't clean?.......oh wait you has never been to United States.
i prefer eating what i catch over market ANY DAY
i've almost always ate for dinner that night what i caught that day. heck, i've even fillet fish on the spot and thrown on the portable little propane grill. fish on the hook one moment, 10 minutes later it's in mah belly. don't get no fresher than that
i've almost always ate for dinner that night what i caught that day. heck, i've even fillet fish on the spot and thrown on the portable little propane grill. fish on the hook one moment, 10 minutes later it's in mah belly. don't get no fresher than that
