Bought some baitfish with something extra...

[TheWolfman]

Feed it to the O

 

[BMG94]

Feed it to the O

Pfft he been shat out already.

 

[BMG94]

Sad, for the last few years people have been trying to get a source for smallmouth bass, then someone gets one, annnnd feeds it to his fish....... wtf?!!!!!!
Stop killing the goose that lays the golden egg!!!!!!

Dude it wasn't something I actually expected to get... I don't have a pond or 400 gallon aquarium to drop it in.
So instead of putting it into a lake and potentially getting a fine or spreading diseases I fed it to my Oscar. Plus since I live in Wisconsin I'd need some type of special license to keep that type of fish I already looked all that up and it's not worth it.

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Dude it wasn't something I actually expected to get... I don't have a pond or 400 gallon aquarium to drop it in.
So instead of putting it into a lake and potentially getting a fine or spreading diseases I fed it to my Oscar. Plus since I live in Wisconsin I'd need some type of special license to keep that type of fish I already looked all that up and it's not worth it.

I'm going to take mercy on you and tell you what to do if this happens again.

(Btw feeding it to your oscar means that you can now get fined twice instead of 1 or no fine).

1. Take it to a local aquaria,outdoor store or zoo.
2.explain the situation to a local biologist
(Get the phone. number for your area out of the free fishing pamphlets available at Walmart or sporting goods stores).

3. Take it to your buddies private fish pond.

 

[BMG94]

I'm going to take mercy on you and tell you what to do if this happens again.

(Btw feeding it to your oscar means that you can now get fined twice instead of 1 or no fine).

1. Take it to a local aquaria,outdoor store or zoo.
2.explain the situation to a local biologist
(Get the phone. number for your area out of the free fishing pamphlets available at Walmart or sporting goods stores).

3. Take it to your buddies private fish pond.

I agree but it seems as though whoever caught those baitfish didn't thoroughly I wouldn't have had this problem.
Either way it was gonna be food now if I wasn't an observant person I wouldn't have known I had a smallie in the batch and it would have been eaten anyway.
Now if it was a Pike or musky id for sure call dnr but bass are very common up here compared to musky and Pike

 

[Deadliestviper7]

I agree but it seems as though whoever caught those baitfish didn't thoroughly I wouldn't have had this problem.
Either way it was gonna be food now if I wasn't an observant person I wouldn't have known I had a smallie in the batch and it would have been eaten anyway.
Now if it was a Pike or musky id for sure call dnr but bass are very common up here compared to musky and Pike

So are these baitfish wild caught or farm raised, either way you can't expect someone to find every bycatch in a group of millions of fish

 

[BMG94]

So are these baitfish wild caught or farm raised, either way you can't expect someone to find every bycatch in a group of millions of fish

Just from a local gas station which is also a bait store, I dont know where they get the fish but I'm assuming since we aren't a city but just a small town with a population of 890 people that these fish are wild caught.