[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Jun-21-06 AT 04:57PM (EST)[/font][p]what a crock did you read the article?

""Id rather hear a 40-year-old man say he'd never eaten a bass in his life than have everyone taking their bass home to the table," Scott says. But in certain fisheries - farm ponds, especially - regular havesting actually benefits the fishing."

Field and Stream pg. 34 ph2 lines 10-15

I am sure these points were just left out of the discussion as an oversight, right?

Eating bass is not a taboo, but taking fish from public waters should be, as far as tournaments go they do damage the fishiries, but they also generate a lot of money for the economy around the lakes as well as for the lake itself. The fees that are paid to hold these tournaments go back to the DNR coffers to help pay for stocking and lake reserection projects.

There was a post on the KY site a few months ago about keeping fish alive in the well. It pointed out that fish do die, but even if you release a fish immediatly after it is caught it can die. So to use that as an argument you might as well say, lets not fish.

The point of the article is taking smaller bass is good, but your really can't do that from our lakes in Indiana. There just arent enough quality fish out there to do it.


I posted the following on the Spinnerbait article, well I will amend it to make some of you happy:

Just like Marie Antoinette said let them eat cake. Well let them eat panfish, or bass from private waters.