What is your belief on Catch and Release?

[bigbadfish711]

fyi, new threads show up as new threads regardless of which forum they are in. This one asked for opinions and I gave mine. As for your claim that 98% of fish survive c&r, I highly doubt it. What is your source for that info?




Not all aquarium fish are kept in small boxes. Some live in nice roomy clean tanks and blossom in captivity while eating a great diet, mating and LIVING as opposed to suffering and dying. Id say thats quite less harmful.

I practice catch and eat. People have been doing it ever sense they could walk up right. I do not believe in catch and destroy. Meaning people catch and keep the fish only to throw them away.

I second the prof of "98 percent of c&r fish survive". I do not think any one can say defiantly what percent of fish actually survive. There are just too many variances in every catch. Like fish size, age, type of fish, how hot or cold the water is, and so and so forth. If you catch a fish and release it back into the lake, river, or ocean you are not going to be able to tell how many of those fish survive. Unless you tag every single one with some sort of transmitter. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Aquanero]

I release most of what I catch. I will keep a fish to eat every once in a while. My favorite game fish is the Striped Bass, I fish mostly from the surf or inshore. I also fish for LMB on occasion but surf fishing for Stripers is my favorite. I'm surprized they're not on your list.

 

[Gruntking]

I believe in FILLET AND RELEASE, for example if i catch an undersized snook or a goliath grouper down here in florida i will fillet them and remove the skin and dump the carcass overboard..................................J/K!! LOL

In all honesty the freshwater fishing i do is 100 % catch and release, and the saltwater is a bit different. Usually when fishing saltwater down here in florida my main target is snapper for now since the grouper season is closed. I keep what my family and i will eat that will not get frozen. Frozen fish all tastes the same IMO and you cant compare anything to some fresh fish. The laws down here have been getting stricter every year, and as of last year they started a grouper closure from january-april i believe it is. It sucks because ive got quite a few keepers, but the season is closed :/.

 

[sbuse]

fyi, new threads show up as new threads regardless of which forum they are in. This one asked for opinions and I gave mine. As for your claim that 98% of fish survive c&r, I highly doubt it. What is your source for that info?


Not all aquarium fish are kept in small boxes. Some live in nice roomy clean tanks and blossom in captivity while eating a great diet, mating and LIVING as opposed to suffering and dying. Id say thats quite less harmful.

just about every fishing research articale ever written has this info in it. also every tagged fish that you or i catch has been released. oh ya also every stocked fish in the world has been caught several times in nets and other stressfull methods like tranquilizers to be checked for size/illnesses before they are transported in large bins through traffic to the lakes were they are pumped out a tube filled with water into the designated lake. only for you or i to catch them later. muskies are a prime example of c&r succsess just for an example. i have caught and seen caught muskies that have 3-8 hook marks in the mouth. not only are they living after they are caught, but they go on and spawn to creat more of the sp. i have also caught steelheads that were caught and milked by the DNR only days/months/years(as it has happened more then once) before that were in a different river to try and spawn again. if what you say is true all these fish would be washed up on shore dead, and not like these examples of a c&r success'(see pics all except trout have been c&r). you don't have a clue what you are saying so just stop before you make an ass out of yourself.

as for the other part. all my fish are thriving, arowanas, gar, triggerfish...ect... just cause they live and breed(witch is all they understand how to do) doesn't mean that they are not kept in small boxes. most of the fish kept in our houses never see the wild max sizes, witch we should be exceeding them since we give them all the food they can have without predation or natural selection. if they are sick we medicate them to cure them, yet with everything we do they still seem to top out smaller then their wild counterparts, strange huh? i have a 180gal with one of my aros in it, i will be getting a 450gal or building a 10'x10'x3' pond witch is more then "enough" room for the fish. yet some how i still see it as a small box when you compare it to the amazon river witch is were the fish belongs. i have it in my box because i dirive pleasure from seeing it, feeding it and caring for it. regardless it is still in a box, witch is not what it should have. we just see it as suffitiant due to our warped ideas of entertainment and how we justify it to ourselves to sleep at night.

you do have your opinon, but i would advise you not to open pandoras box on this one. what do you think would happen if me, a hunter and fisherman, were to go to a PETA meeting and asked them "where the are steaks?"


also i forgot to add ALL the fish in your box/boxes and everyone esles have been c&r many many times, yet they are all LIVING. damn i find that to be quite the pridicament to find yourself in now since you are avocating what i am saying.

 

[Yellow_Perch]

I release most of what I catch. I will keep a fish to eat every once in a while. My favorite game fish is the Striped Bass, I fish mostly from the surf or inshore. I also fish for LMB on occasion but surf fishing for Stripers is my favorite. I'm surprized they're not on your list.

lol sry i forgot it was freshwater species i also forgot catfish i believe

 

[NCStateFisher]

release all that you won't eat, realistically i C&R almost all of the freshwater fish i catch, i've only kept freshwater fish to eat once in years. saltwater if it's within limit I say it's fair game, catch 'em while you can because soon enough commercial fishing will kill it all off. C&R won't make a different it'll probably just become by catch to be tossed back in to the water dead

 

[SSmokinn SS]

when I was younger, and more selfish, I would keep the big fish I caught. Several can be shown on my wall...

now that I am 24, I release everything...

here are a **** load of large mouths I have caught this year. The biggest was 25" and 7lb's. By far the biggest large mouth I have ever caught.

every single fish was released un harmed. These are only half of the big fish I caught this year. Smallest large mouth I posted was over 4lbs

 

[Yellow_Perch]

try the X-Rap from Rapala i only use Rapala and Storm unless i see something cheaper but i will sometimes chip in on Atlas Mike egg sacs for salmon and steelies..but yea nice bass..try Texas or California there thriving so much..but i wont lie i see some huge lunkers here in Michigan..

 

[studd muffin]

Us asians (where I live) take anything we catch that is the size limit lol.



Me I do believe in catch and release. I rarely go fishing and catch something big enough to take home anyways. When ever I bring a fish home my parents make it for dinner.

 

[YOOPER]

I have my own trout pond(s) and 95% of non-gill hooked rainbows/brookies survive if cared for correctly after the catch. Herons and otters kill more than my 8 year old son does. I also have hybred gills and some good sized chubs swimming around. As for the other 5%? Man's gotta eat.

Im torn about C&R because at least the fish is getting a chance to survive, however its often a futile effort because the fish dies as a result of being weakened and exhausted and it only gives the fisherman a false sense of harmlessness. I think the humane thing is not to hook a fish in the first place so those fishermen who regret the harm they do would be better off finding a less harmful hobby, like fishkeeping.

I assume you drive a car? How do you live with yourself after seeing all of those insects dead on your grill? I would suggest a less harmful, more humane mode of transportation, like walking.