KY Lake Guide Service Blood River Area

[mfishyboy]

woh cares even if they are eating bass they are just as legal as everything else. One person is not going to hurt any fishing... i even keep a few about once a year.

[artcarney_agr]

Have you guys ever been to Islamorada, FL sailfishing? The captain on our charter boat told me,

"Sure, you can keep a sailfish. It's legal to do so. However, if we bring one in to the dock, we will be kicked out of the marina for good! Those fish are our livelihood. Killing one never goes over good in the eyes of others in our business."

This could easily relate to bass fishing...

[Pogafisher]

I know nothing about sailfishing but I do know that thousands of bass a year are stocked into our lakes. The size and bag limits are put there for a reason. If it was a detriment to the fishing to keep some fish then they wouldn't have it in place. Tournaments are a lot harder on the bass than keeping a few legals every year. Get over it guys.

[mfishyboy]

i agree ...when you keep a fish in the livewell that lon git does something too them and how do you know they all live ... you dont for all we know half of them could die later after they swim off

[Moose1am]

I have seen some reports of studies that showed that some bass don't make it after they are released. I guess the stress is just too much for them.

I guess what we don't know can hurt the fishing after all!

Bottom line is that we now have a lot of fishing pressure on most of the lakes. That is exactly why the state dnr's put limits on the size and number of the different type of fish species. This is done to help protect the fish stocks. I have found that where I live a few people don't read the regulations or don't abide by them. All it takes is for a few people to keep or kill too many fish in any lake to reduce the numbers of fish in that lake. This is really true for some of the smaller lakes that have a lot of fishing pressure. Now take Kentucky lake with all that water connecting it to the other Tennessee Valley lake and rivers and I fail to see how it could be fished out. There is just too much water. Yet the TN and KY DNR have size limits on Crappie of all things. You would think that a fish that can lay over 300,000 eggs each spring would be hard to fish down but evidently that's what has happened on KY lake. Maybe we can blame the lack of big fish on the Corp for not raising and lowering the water levels for to protect the fish and doing that to protect the land from flooding instead. Dropping the water levels after the fish have spawned is sure to wipe out a lot of the next generation of fish.
Regards,

Moose1am

[mhall]

>I know nothing about sailfishing but
>I do know that thousands
>of bass a year are
>stocked into our lakes.
> The size and
>bag limits are put there
>for a reason. If
>it was a detriment to
>the fishing to keep some
>fish then they wouldn't have
>it in place. Tournaments
>are a lot harder on
>the bass than keeping a
>few legals every year.
>Get over it guys.

I have no dog in this fight, but only to clarify one thing. That is,there hasn't been supplemental stocking of black bass, not temperate in most of our Kentucky lakes in years. Don't flame on me I just wanted to clear that up, tightlines, Mark.

[Danny]

I've not seen anyone address the issue that the first poster is asking a guide to mark is map. The poster is not offering to pay for the information, just looking, apparently, for free intellectual property.

THAT to me is the question.

If he wants to keep fish in a legal fashion, I have no problem with that. If he wants to pay a guide to help him learn the area, I totally support his hiring of a guide, and I would reccomend Dave Stewart.

Danny

[the_donger]

The original poster is also not demanding free information, he politely asked for said information. There is a difference and a polite question does not hurt anyone and it just might be his lucky day.

[SNIPER_01]

OK OK LET THE POOR MAN REST, HE JUST WANTS TO GO FISHIN, GIVE HIM A SPOT OR TWO AND GET OVER IT. HEY FISH4FOOD IF YA EVER WANNA CATCH SOME FISH LET ME KNOW, I KNOW BOTH LAKES REAL GOOD. GOT ALMOST 30 YRS ON EM, SO IF THOSE FOLKS WONT HELP YA, LET ME KNOW........SNIPER GONE