For What Reason Do You Not Release

[Rudypoo4444]

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.

WHOOO BOY! Where to start? I have a nice 6lb largemouth hanging on my wall, I must be a JOKE of a fisherman. I am ashamed.....ashamed that I released the one I caught two casts later that was bigger than the first one. But the first one had already gone in the freezer.

I don't really want to offend you, but there is really no way around it. This is a pathetic post putting other fishermen down that don't see things your way. I'm sorry buddy, but you are DEAD wrong on this subject.

If a guy wants to eat a 6lb largemouth, he is a big boy and he can do what he wants with that fish as long as he is obeying size/creel limits. He is no less of a fisherman than you, and shouldn't be thought of that way. The last time I checked KDFWR is doing a fine job of keeping our resource in check. I never run out of bass to catch at any of the lakes I fish.

What about the guy keeping a limit of crappie every time he goes out? Is eating the big 2-3 lb slabs depleting the resource? You don't see anybody hollering about that and those big slab crappie are trophys to some people.

[CoonCreek]

For the record: Our club keeps all bass that do not safely swim away after each tournament and has a fish fry at the end of the season (no matter what, sometimes a few tournament fish die). I don't see anybody culling those fish - even the bigger ones. Just like anything else that you get in the wilds of Kentucky, it really depends on how good of a cook you are if you want something to taste right.