You must be having a bad hair day. I don't "****" at bass fishing and I occasionally clean a bass. They are great on the grill smoked and I sure don't have any problem catching them. In a year's time I release 99% of the keeper bass that come into my boat and never clean anything over 3 pounds or brown. The key to this thought is in thoughtful management. Most of my fishing happens at Barkley which has plentiful keeper sized bass. To eat a few out of that lake does not have a significant impact on its fishery unlike all of the hundreds and hundreds of bass that get hauled into the weigh ins for tournaments on all of our lakes and many of these fish don't make it. To me it the tournament fishermen living in denial who **** at this topic.

kc