BE HONEST

[rangertr]

HOW MANY OF YOU GET THE CRAVING FOR SOME FRESH FISH AND TAKE A COUPLE OF BASS HOME TO EAT. I TRY TO KEEP ALL OF MY WHITES AND CRAPPIE WHEN I'M BASS FISHING EVEN IN A TOURNAMENT

[KBB]

dont really like bass to eat.but i usually catch a few stripers and walleye while bass fishing on c-land.all the legal ones go home.

[easy_13]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Mar-18-06 AT 11:59PM (EST)[/font][p]I watched Basscenter this morning and was sickened to see one of the feature stories they had. They showed a fish cleaning station, I think it was on Sam Rayburn. Anyway, there was a full room of people cleaning fish on a circular table. Saw a couple of bass in the 5-6 pound range being hacked up with a filet knife, too. x(

I suppose it's legal and your right to do so, but I'll never eat a bass. I'm strictly catch and release, with the exception of a few Kentuckies, which I keep and transport to a buddy's farm pond. I've been told that Kys are so aggressive that if you don't weed some of them out, they'll overpopulate to the detriment of LM and SM.

[toby]

Too much work. Love to eat fresh fish but too lazy to clean them.

[BardstownFish]

with an electric filet knife it makes it a breeze

[kycrawfish]

The only bass I keep, are the ones that didn't keep (meaning they expired in the live well - and those have been few and far between).

[BardstownFish]

have kept a few LM over the winter, and most legal crappie

[gettingonefishin]

I havn't eat a largemouth in years. Had smallmouth that was dead at weigh in once from Cumberland and didnt like the taste of em. I eat spots, crappie, bluegill, stripers, hybrids, white bass, catfish, sauger, and the best of all Mr Walleye. I love fish and thats it. But I dont eat LM or SM.

[Danny]

LM, Spots, and even smallmouth, they all taste good.

The fact is that what we call bass are really from the Pan fish family and are cousins of the breem (bluegill).

I have no problems with those that hunt deer for the meat, turkey for the meat, and I don't hold anything against those that fish for the meat.

Now I'll admit, my wife won't let me keep fish to eat. She says if I want to eat fish, she will either go get me some from Long John Silvers or some fresh fish from the market. In any case she figures it is best to eat some that are already dead.

Growing up, we always ate the fish. Stay within the limit laws, and I have no problems.

My sister, just like me, grew up eating fresh fish that we caught. My brother-in-law kept asking me if I would let him keep some fish for them to have a fish fry. We had a decent day of fishing. He went home with a nice catfish, a drum, a couple of crappie, and one 15.5 inch bass. I got home from the lake, and it is important to know that my brother-in-law left the lake in his own truck at the lake, and my wife had no way of knowing he kept those fish. Yet as soon as she saw me walking down the driveway she said, "you let Jerry keep those fish, didn't you?"

I now release all fish... my sister just gets no more fresh fish fries from me.

LOL

Danny

[Viking]

People that eat some of the fish that they catch are an integral part of nature, a link in the food chain. People that don't are only spectators.

[redneckshadrap]

Captain D's or McDonalds for me....LOL!



Billy


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[mhall]

Like Kr I will eat the fire out of pan fish and I target small Spots to eat also, but I very, very seldom cut largemouth, small when I do, and NEVER a smallmouth. I worship those ole brown fish.