Quote Originally Posted by smljaw View Post
I'm with Rich... 1) Buy a replica if you really feel the need to display a bass on you wall. A good digital camera does the trick as well. Frame an 8X10 photo and display for all your buddies and family members to see. 2) Bass don't taste good.

Keep a few to eat from time to time. That's fine. Just put the big females back. This will enhance our resources for years to come. And something else! Anyone mounting a 5 or 6 pound LM out of Cedar Creek, or any other lake, should be ashamed of themselves. What a joke! If you fall in this boat you either don't fish much or you lucked into catching it.

This topic heats me up so I'm going to stop now.
I still don't keep bass over 3lbs to eat, and I usually put the bigger ones back unless he dies on me or something, but I'm almost to the point on keeping my daily limit of legal size bass that I do catch, with the amount of tourney's that now go on the fish don't have a chance to reproduce and get big like they use to.. NO one is gonna convince me when you catch a fish especially a spawning fish and take it 40miles and beat it to death in the livewell that all of them are going to go ahead and spawn and live! So I'm starting to think well if someone is just gonna take the fish to a weigh in and it may die, why not just eat it so at least it wouldn't be wasted!! I think the state really needs to get a hold on the amount of tourneys that are going on in the lakes in our state!I'm not paticulary talking about Cedar Creek