guist creek?

[crappiehunterchris]

Man your logic doesn't fit with this scenario at all. The guy threw back the smaller fish and kept the largest one he caught. And where do you get the idea that a 5lb bass is too old to breed? That fish, was probably no more than 7 years old, LM in KY have a much longer life span than just 7 years and that fish had many more egg laying years ahead of her, have you not seen LM on the nest before? most of the ones I see on the beds in the spring are well over 5lbs!! The KY State record was almost 14lbs and was probably close to 20 years old. I don't disagree that selective harvest can be a good thing, but this is just silly. Besides, after looking at that fish, it would be lucky to hit 4lbs.

http://www.fish.state.pa.us/pafish/b.../pics/fig1.gif

I understand that i think i got it backwards as i was half asleep but harcesting the small bass is a better idea but also why would therr be 12-16 inch protective slot limits their eggs seem to be the healthiest of the bunch i think and stand a better chance of surviving think of it this way a bass 5 lbs and up is kinda like a woman befor menopause some eggs survive but more die due to being inadequate than a fish that is 2 years old (12inches) granted they dont lay as many as a 5 lb sow would but keeping 1 bass that size wont hurt anything unless its a lake thats in dire straights and guist dont seem to be i do preety good down there for crappie bass and big gills from the bank by the bridge

[kyriverblues]

I don't think a person keeping 1 **** bass is going to hurt the bass population in the lake. I am sure the fish and wildlife would not leave the size limit 12" if bass were low. It is also his legal right to do so. He could have kept them all and I do see an issue with that but he did not. I am sorry that they guy called you an idiot but all fisherman around here are not like that. He probably is one of those fisherman that thinks if you don't fish for bass that you should not be on the lake. it is sad the way some people are these days.

[fishinfreak]

You guys that are jumping all over this guy are the idiots! He kept one fish in which he was perfectly within the law in doing so. There are limits on these fish for a reason. So ppl can keep a select amount of them to eat without hurting the population. I don't keep bass unless it's a spot and I have a mess of crappie to go with it. In my opinion crappie and catfish just taste better. If this guy kept this fish and said it was his biggest bass of his life and he was mounting it you guys would've been celebrating with him but since he decided to not waste it by mounting it like some of you idiots do he actually benefited from it and ate it. Stop acting like people keeping a bass here and there is going to destroy our bass population.