Just a fun fishing report!

For those people that live near the F.I.N.S lakes the rainbow trout bite is good. I went out with a friend the other day and we caught a bunch with corn on the bottom. The trout shock easily and die in the little lakes so we decided there was no need to continue fishing. More than half the time the die when you try catch and release. Just didn't want to risk harming them. But hey if you want to go catch a trout dinner then your local fins lake is an easy way to do it. Also an easy way to shake the cabin fever! Good luck all

Great tip. Just might do that.
Thanks.

--- once you catch your limit & don't release them, you're done. Giving them away is the same thing as keeping them.

FINS lakes are put & take fisheries, and the stocking is regulated by how much pressure is put on the lake/species, and survival rate potential. They already know that survivors through the cold months are gonna die when the water gets warm. But, if they didn't care that people caught them & passed them on to other people not so lucky as to be catching any ... what would be the point of requiring a trout fishing license or creel limit ?

Now ... I may be wrong, but you'd best ask someone in the KDFWR ... if you think I am wrong.

While it may seem wasteful to put a FINS Lake trout back, knowing that it isn't likely to survive ... it's not, really, since the dead fish will be consumed by various other fish/critters that inhabit the same waters.

... pappy

[QUOTE=crappiepappy;541865]--- once you catch your limit & don't release them, you're done. Giving them away is the same thing as keeping them.

FINS lakes are put & take fisheries, and the stocking is regulated by how much pressure is put on the lake/species, and survival rate potential. They already know that survivors through the cold months are gonna die when the water gets warm. But, if they didn't care that people caught them & passed them on to other people not so lucky as to be catching any ... what would be the point of requiring a trout fishing license or creel limit ?

Now ... I may be wrong, but you'd best ask someone in the KDFWR ... if you think I am wrong.

While it may seem wasteful to put a FINS Lake trout back, knowing that it isn't likely to survive ... it's not, really, since the dead fish will be consumed by various other fish/critters that inhabit the same waters.

... pappy[/QUOTE]


Very logical post. I agree, a limit is a limit.

I think I agree as well. I don't think catching more than your limit and giving them away is following the regulations. I get that trout are put and take, but what if someone went around the lake catching largemouth or smallmouth and giving them away so they could keep fishing? I think we'd all have a problem with that.

where were you catching them? I have had zero luck at Jacobson and Minga, and talking to some of the other fisherman there the bite has been tough for them also.

To me, it's alright to give away fish as long as everyone you give them to has a trout permit and only keeps their limit. I don't think that the state administers a creel limit by assuming that most anglers won't catch and keep a limit. It would only make sense that the regulations are put in place while assuming that almost everyone will take a limit out of the lake. While I do think that it is technically illegal to give away fish in this manner, I don't think people that do it have done anything wrong.

Ive witnessed something similiar with the musky in Green River Lake where your daily limit is one, and i watched the ticket being wrote by a game warden that was watching from a distance. So to answer the question, yes it is illegal

[QUOTE=Fishin is life;541889]Ive witnessed something similiar with the musky in Green River Lake where your daily limit is one, and i watched the ticket being wrote by a game warden that was watching from a distance. So to answer the question, yes it is illegal[/QUOTE]

Fishin is life is correct. So if you really want that ticket keep doing what you are doing. The bigger surprise may come when a game warden charges you for each fish over, Have seen it done sauger fishing