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

[KR]

I normally target wood cover or chunk rock banks with finesse worms, jerkbaits, flukes, and bitsy jigs for 11-13 inch kentucky's on Cumberland. No better eating!!!!!

[jrbass]

I'll keep the short fish if it's legal I love to eat bass.I won't eat anything over a pound though

[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.

[kyriver]

I have to admit that I ocassionally take some kys out of c-land during the winter(better out of cold water). Never any lm, just not the flavor I like but smallies, those are sacred so they are not even considered. But ANY walleye that I catch get eaten.

[bobber]

ill eat some bass once a month, i beleve all lakes should have slot limits, so all the smaller, more aggresive fish arent eating everthing up.i think their would be bigger fish to be cought. ive read on this site before,that the smallmouth fishing is much better at dale hollow since the slot limit was put in. the catch and relese is great but that puts much more hardship on biger fish to eat, well thats what i think anyway.

[dpage70]

crappie, walleye and catfish are the only fish i'll eat. preferably walleye but those things have gotten hard to come by on nolin(which is the closest lake to me). #1 rule of my boat is that no type of bass goes in the livewell unless i'm fishing a tourney. those babies are sport.

[plowboy]

Mostly Long John Silvers here. I kept one stringer of bass in two years and felt bad about it. I don't think there is any shortage of Kentucky bass on Cumberland so I don't see a problem with it every now and then. I sure hate to see a smallmouth cut though, I guess its because I have so much respect for them. I wish they would put a slot limit on Cumberland similar to Dale. But I'm probably in the minority. They say its hard to win a tourney on Dale with smallmouths anymore. Wonder if drum are any good. I catch a monster every now and then bass fishing. If I ever catch a monster smallie I will probably keep it to mount. I have never seen a replica that looked realistic of a smallmouth. I don't seem to be in any danger of breaking the 6 lb mark though I catch several 4 and 5 lb fish.

[charlie1]

Never - not even spots - but that's only because I wasn't informed that they (the spots) were good to eat recently. Even if I was told the LM and SM were the best eating fish out there I wouldn't keep them. I will start keeping the spots though. The TWRA is recommending keeping all you can for some reason, especially on Norris.

[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!



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[glassport]

I think it is good to keep bass on overpopulated lakes to help balance out the size of the bass. Too many bass stunts growth like in Wilgreen for instance you can catch 20 bass 10 to 14 inches and one over 3 pounds every couple months. I have fished there for three years now and it seems I catch teh same bass over and over. There are ALOT of bass in this small lake.