Hey guys I’ve been using this website forever but never felt the need to post until now. I can’t believe this disturbing trend of keeping a large bass to make a skin mount of it is still a thing. In this day in age cameras and fiberglass mounts are so good that there is literally no need to kill a fish to make a memory of it. So many lakes near me have been absolutely destroyed because of people keeping all the 5lb+ bass and I don’t understand the point of it. Some of these lakes are under 5 acres and can’t hold many bass over 5lbs. Why wouldn’t you wanna release it to catch it again another day? Especially if it’s not even a state/world record... don’t get me wrong a 5lb bass is a greasy catch and not very easy to come by in NJ but don’t these people understand they’re making it so much harder by taking them out and putting them on their wall? It just seems like we need to do something about this because it’s so ridiculously stupid and harmful to the fisheries and the only thing I can think of is making skin mounts illegal. Does anyone else agree or do I just care too much about these fish?
