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  • Super User
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I only want to kill them when they take my good baits.   :mad5:

 

That's enough for me to go swim after them and strangle them!

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Everyone threatens to throw em on the bank or cut their heads off and they "jest don't git" why they were put in....
 

 

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  • Super User
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Man I would kill to catch a musky, especially a big one!!! And people just want to kill them off like that, call DNR on them man.

Come up to WI and we'll get you hooked into a good one!

 

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You missed it. This animation was in response to "jest don't git". My reference was from an episode of South Park. 

  • Super User
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I was about to pull out my newly setup first successful spinner bait when a 32" pickerel came parallel to the shoreline with 1/3 of his head and body out of the water on the rocks and ripped my spinner bait off my line as it was inches from the water at the waters edge. My jaw dropped and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I was in shock. I don't hate picketed, pike or Muskies there probably the best game fish to catch. I love there fight.

I prefer to catch bass but these toothy critters are welcome to bite too. These big pickerel can be feisty too.

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While I doubt the musky were natural to that lake, they were introduced for a reason. Whether it was for the sportfishermen, or to controll numbers of other species makes no difference.

I would say report them if you witness the butchering and at the very least say something to the offender.  I guarantee you any trout fisherman that saw you butchering a trout and leaving it for the scavengers wouldn't hesitate to report you AND give you a piece of their uppetty mind :punishment:

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I never understood that mentality either.  Around here i see people tossing chain pickerel on the bank because they kill everything apparently and God forbid if they catch a bowfin.....those get dispatched too even though they have been around sicne the age of the dinosaurs pretty much.

sometimes a 10lb bowfin makes a fishing trip......

 

IMHO, folks should focus more on the vegatation that they transplant from one lake to another. The lake we fished today (Western Branch in Suffolk VA) has lily pads and hydrilla sprouting in places we've never seen.... not good....

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I recently watched my buddy catch a 26 inch bowfin on a 1/4 oz humdinger on 12lb test with a 6'6 M/F rod. We had already hooked onto multiple 3 and 4 lb bass that day and for a minute he thought he had a big ole momma. Fun to catch, disappointing to land! Haha.

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  • Global Moderator
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A little lake I bass fish once in awhile is also a very popular crappie lake and MODC happens to stock muskie in it as well. Of course some of the crappie guys need an excuse for those days they can't find any crappie in the maze of trees so they blame the muskie (even though the large population of above average sized bass surely eats more of them). The popular thing to do is rip the gills out of any muskie caught and put it back, but apparently it isn't 100% effective, thankfully :). This one blasted a buzzbait at boatside, gave a hard pulling fight, then swam away strong all despite it's gills being torn out and hanging out on one side.

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  • Super User
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I want the biggest, hardest fighting fish mother nature is going to give me.  If there is a choice I'd rather catch a mean 30# fish over an 8# bass anytime.

  • Super User
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That passes me off blue. Animal cruelty.

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I think its interesting how depending on where you go in the world people always seems to have a "trash" fish. Europe for example loves the carp, it is considered a prized and highly sought after catch. But carp here in America are often considered a trash fish.

I have had the opportunity to fish up in Canada a few times and always loved catching the pike, but alas several Canadians I spoke to considered it a trash fish. Of course the Canadians were far to polite to rip out their gills or harm the fish. They just tossed it back and tried again.

Heck, even 100 years ago the bass was considered an unrefined low class fish, the trout was king in America. It took extensive stocking efforts and a few key people to stand up for bass and see them for what they are...a highly adaptive predatory machine!

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  • Super User
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I find the discussion of trash fish very interesting.  Trash is something that YOU don't want, I don't think any fish are trash, only the attitude is trash.  A so called trash may be a great fight, excellent table fare or used for cut bait.   One could not convince a die hard fly trout fisherman that anything tops that, stripers guys on Long Island feel their fish is the best, many bass guys feel bass is the greatness gamefish.  Trash or gamefish to me a great fish is one that I can't catch everyday, one that takes me quite a while to land and after it's landed I don't want another, I'm too whacked out.

  • Super User
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Well, I think there are a lot of "trash fish" that should be eliminated from all waters.

Snakehead and Asian Carp are at the top of the list. I would add drum, suckers and

spotted bass to the group. I very rarely run into European carp or gar, but they probably

belong on the list, too.

  • Super User
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I'd like to see the invasive species eliminated, don't think it will happen.  May as well enjoy them, snakeheads I hear are wonderful to eat, I can attest they are very feisty fighting fish.  I don't want to see native fish eliminated, mother nature put them here for a reason.

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