I personally will at the end of the season keep a limit of keepers about a pound to a pound and a half. Untill theres Ice on the water. As far as tourneys both of my clubs will take dead fish and filet them for an end of the year fish fry. It's like deer you have to cull them or there will not be a healthy population. Big fish yes I will always put them back. But the rest get tatar sauce and hushpupies.