fishing ethics

[Lawdog]

Do you think it is ethical or unethical to keep, clean, and eat a largemouth bass if it is within the legal limits set by the Commission? Is there a difference between keeping a fish to eat and keeping a fish to place on your wall?

[LRB]

Eat'em.

[Lawdog]

Personally I don't feel that it is unethical, wrong, or even hurtful to keep a few bass every now and then to clean and eat. This presumes that the fish are taken legally. When I do catch big bass I always release them to be caught again by all you guys with 250 hp bass boats.

[redtail]

Its as simple as Selective harvest!!

[bevo]

As predicted ... my post was deleted.


Thanks again for having such a "public" forum!



Lets all stand up and give the moderators a good slow clap for once again displaying keen judgement and thoughtfulness in preserving this top notch internet forum. Good thing no one is allowed to have an opinion around here or it might make for a true learning experience for those who care to think outside the 1" x 1" box inside their heads.

[Dave Stewart]

I have been deleting your posts. I am tired of your "phishing" posts. I don't care if you like it or not. EOM

[apb]

Not sure why it was deleted as it was another admin who did so. My guess is that your slamming of the board and the people who moderate it got someone ticked off. You made a valid post, then ended it with a slam at the board. Stick to the topic at hand and you'll find many more of your posts stay on the board. Just my 2 cents.

As to the topic, I have no problem with people keeping anything as long as it is done legally. Keep undersized fish (of any species) or too many, and I have a problem. For me, I rarely keep any fish anymore. If I feel that the fish does not have a good chance of survival after release, I'll keep it for the table if legal. No sense in letting one go to waste.

Andrew

[Fishhead]

First off, this is not a "public forum" it is PRIVATE message board owned by a PRIVATE individual(s), the owner(s) and moderators can do whatever they want and if they viewed something in your post was not in the best interest of this message board or against board rules then it was and will always get deleted.

Second, I didn't see your message, but have been around here for awhile and IMO the moderators do a darn good job on this site and therefore I trust their judgement. And if warranted, they may even come on here and explain why it was deleted. However, since it is a PRIVATELY owned message board they are not obligated to give you any explanation or reason as to why they deleted your message, it may have been an error, who knows!

Finally, I've had plenty of my own messages deleted from this board, as have others, but never once did I claim it was some kind of "conspiracy" against me! It was only a message on a fishing message board, get over it.

Throw another log on the fire!

[bevo]

>First off, this is not a
>"public forum" it is PRIVATE
>message board owned by a
>PRIVATE individual(s), the owner(s) and
>moderators can do whatever they
>want and if they viewed
>something in your post was
>not in the best interest
>of this message board or
>against board rules then it
>was and will always get
>deleted.
>
>Second, I didn't see your message,
>but have been around here
>for awhile and IMO the
>moderators do a darn good
>job on this site and
>therefore I trust their judgement.
>And if warranted, they may
>even come on here and
>explain why it was deleted.
>However, since it is a
>PRIVATELY owned message board they
>are not obligated to give
>you any explanation or reason
>as to why they deleted
>your message, it may have
>been an error, who knows!
>
>
>Finally, I've had plenty of my
>own messages deleted from this
>board, as have others, but
>never once did I claim
>it was some kind of
>"conspiracy" against me! It was
>only a message on a
>fishing message board, get over
>it.
>
>Throw another log on the fire!
>


While this site may be a "private" endeavor this is still a public message board. It is publicly viewable by anyone with access to the world wide web and the contents contained therein are all public domain once posted. When registering on this site and/or posting one never consents to a EULA or otherwise surrenders their rights which would in turn make this a private forum.

I am curious though how you relate my post to a claim of conspiracy, and perhaps you should heed your own advice of "It was only a message on a fishing message board, get over it" as you seem to have gotten extremely worked up over "a message on a fishing board".

Thanks and eat more tasty bass.

[Fishhead]

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Not worked up at all Bevo, just responding to your post. Actually getting quite a kick out of it.

As far as the conspiracy goes, your the one that stated:

"In every thread that I post a reply it gets canned. Everytime.."

That is why I reached my conclusion.

But now you have me curious as to why you would not put your real name on your registration to the site? Perhaps due to the fact you may want to post items to stir up controversy without anyone knowing who you are. Or you believe there is some other internet government conspiracy that will retain your name if you post here. Or maybe you just did not have the ......

[bevo]

>Not worked up at all Bevo,
>just responding to your post.
>Actually getting quite a kick
>out of it.
>
>As far as the conspiracy goes,
>your the one that stated:
>
>
>"In every thread that I post
>a reply it gets canned.
>Everytime.."
>
>That is why I reached my
>conclusion.
>
>But now you have me curious
>as to why you would
>not put your real name
>on your registration to the
>site? Perhaps due to the
>fact you may want to
>post items to stir up
>controversy without anyone knowing who
>you are. Or you believe
>there is some other internet
>government conspiracy that will retain
>your name if you post
>here. Or maybe you just
>did not have the ......
>



To comply with your wishes and to come out from under my cloak of anonymity I went ahead and filled out my profile for you ole buddy fishhead.

Hey! Looks like we both live in Independence. Wanna go bass fishin' sometime? We'll have to be back by the time the X-Files comes on though.

Be "Big Brother I'm Not A Terrorist Ignore My Obscurity" Vo

[jcb]

>But now you have me curious
>as to why you would
>not put your real name
>on your registration to the
>site? Perhaps due to the
>fact you may want to
>post items to stir up
>controversy without anyone knowing who
>you are. Or you believe
>there is some other internet
>government conspiracy that will retain
>your name if you post
>here. Or maybe you just
>did not have the ......
>

Assigning any importance to whether or not someone uses their "real name" on a free message board is incredibly naive. I could have put "Kevin Van Dam" if I wanted. Or "John Smith". How would you, or the admins, know any different? There are valid reasons someone might not want to give their name. I believe I have one.

I agree 100% with this board's policy, however, that seems to say that if you flame somebody's business or someone directly, your identity should be verified. No one should be allowed to anonymously flame somebody's character or business.

I don't agree with taking down posts that hold a non-inflammatory point of view the board owners disagree with, as appears to have happened here. Then again, as someone else said, it's their board. I don't have to agree with how they run it.

But maybe there's more to the story than I know.

JCB