Does This Make You Mad?

[HoosierHawgs]

I love bass fishing and have practiced catch and release for a long time. But to many people in the world the purpose of fishing is for food, so to them catching fish to toss them back is pointless, and the morality of it can be questionable. I was in Cambodia a few months ago and the topic of fishing came up with our guide. I tell you, the fellow was incredulous that I spend hours catching fish just for "fun," spend money doing it, injure some of the fish in the process, and then don't even eat them. He had never heard of such folly as that. "If it's a sport," he said, "play football. It doesn't hurt God's creatures." So, maybe it's better to eat a few? Of course, most anything is better than keeping them and not eating them. But maybe it's appropriate to feel just a tiny bit guilty about catch and release, too.

Well C&R is certainly better than throwing em on the bank for fertilizer. That sounds like more harm to ms.

[HoosierHawgs]

OKAY. I AM MAD. DO YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES ME A BIT MADDER THAN ANYTHING DISCUSSED SO FAR ON THIS THREAD? MADDER THAN THOSE BOYS CATCHING MINNOWS IN THE SEWER. NO GUESSES? WELL, THEN, I WILL TELL YOU.

A 14 YEAR OLD BOY, PERHAPS A FISHERMAN BUT I PROBABLY NOT A GOOD ONE, IS RIGHT NOW IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM BECAUSE HE PUT A FISHING WORM UP HIS thingy -- ALL THE WAY. IT HAS CURLED UP IN HIS BLADDER LIKE A SLEEPING SNAKE. AND HE CANT PEE IT OUT.

OKAY, STUFF HAPPENS. I GET THAT.

BUT HERE'S THE PART THAT MAKES ME MAD: IT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY TO GET IT OUT!

I WILL BE BRINGING HIM TO THE OPERATING ROOM IN A FEW HOURS. I HOPE TO SHOW YOU SOME NICE HIPPA- COMPLIANT PHOTOS IN THE NEXT DAY OR TWO.

AND NO, THIS DOES NOT MEAN, IF SUCCESSFUL, THAT I OUGHT RUN FOR US PRESIDENT.

I now cannot sit straight. That is all.

[hawgenvy]

I now cannot sit straight. That is all.

A Yamamoto Senko 5" in Watermelon Red and Green Flake was removed intact and safely from within an adolescent human male bladder by means of direct visual cystoscopic retrieval using flexible alligator forceps, under general anesthesia. The patient recovered fully within a couple of hours and was discharged home. To my knowledge, this situation has never been reported in the medical literature. The exact mechanism of retrograde propulsion of the lure along the urethra so that it ended up completely within the urinary bladder is a mystery, but may be related to the lure's described "seductive side to side tail action," which was enhanced by vigorous masturbatory stroking. Documentary photos shall remain confidential.

[Big bass hunter]

Well here's my problem where I'm at we have a size limit of 12 inches or bigger for bass and the fishing pressure is high there's been a lot less three pounders and even less 5 pounders so now we have a huge amount of juvenile bass so for me I feel like they are having a harder time becoming a trophy bass do to haVing a high catch and keep Coulter. But we have bigger fish still but I'm kinda concerned about how it will effect the upcoming years.

[Missourifishin]

On the rare occasion I see one of the live bait fishermen out at one of my spots catch a bass I would have been thrilled to catch, photograph and release and they throw it in a bucket, do I cringe? ABSOLUTELY. I don't like seeing that at all. But to go as far as saying I'm mad? No. If they're not breaking the law and they are taking it home for dinner, I don't think I really have the right to be mad. 

[1099gl]

I have a hard time watching anyone keeping a fish no matter what species. I know its good for the fish population but I do agree I see many people mishandling fish and It makes me want to say something to them. Just my 2 cents.

[BaitMonkey1984]

I was pulling my boat out one day. Two older people were in a beta up canoe that I was honestly surprised it floated. They threw, and I mean threw the canoe on top of a station wagon. Canoe wasn't registered, didn't see any lifejackets.

 

They had a 5 gallon bucket, filled to the top with fish. Bass. Pickerel. Crappie. Bluegill. Perch. Up in this area we have an overpopulation of white perch, yellow perch and bluegill. Plus there is no limit on those- so I have no issue with those fish kept.

 

But they had way over there limit of bass, and several shorts. I thought they had a tiger muskie, as I saw stripes. I asked to look at it, and they agreed. It was a bass. It had some odd stripes. They had treated the lake for aquatic nuisance vegetation the day before. I kept my mouth shut, and let karma run its course. So yes, it makes me so mad because in my experience its the people who do not even pay for the state to maintain the resource. They don't have fishing licenses, registered their boats, etc. Then they are depleting a resource that we pay the lions share of protecting and preserving. 

[BassThumb]

And get your fish that's caught in some other place where the fish trawlers tear up big chunks of ocean floor to get them and they decimate entire fishing areas. And, while they are at it, kill everything else in the net that they don't want.  As per usual, tear up/destroy the environment in some place other than my back yard.

 

I believe it's better to eat fish where you have pulled them out one at a time and release what you don't want so it can be caught, again.

 

NIMBY

[BassThumb]

It only upsets me when they take the big lunker bass for their dinner tables.

 

A few years ago, I severely gill-hooked a 6-pounder (a big bass by Minnesota standards) with a frog and then wrestled it out of the lily pads and 80-degree water. The gills were detached in places, and the fish had nearly bled out and died by the time I got a hold of it.

 

It was clearly going to die, so rather than give it to the turtles, I decided to take it home, fillet it, and deep-fry it in Shorelunch breading, like I used to do with sunnies as a kid. The taste of that bass still haunts me to this day! Without a doubt, it was the most terrible meat I have ever eaten; it tasted just like how lake-bottom muck smells, even after being soaked in soda water, breaded, fried, and drizzled with hot-sauce, lemon, and tartar.

 

For the life of me, I cannot understand how people actually enjoy the taste of big bass. Cat food would be more appetizing.

[Catch and Grease]

It only upsets me when they take the big lunker bass for their dinner tables.

A few years ago, I severely gill-hooked a 6-pounder (a big bass by Minnesota standards) with a frog and then wrestled it out of the lily pads and 80-degree water. The gills were detached in places, and the fish had nearly bled out and died by the time I got a hold of it.

It was clearly going to die, so rather than give it to the turtles, I decided to take it home, fillet it, and deep-fry it in Shorelunch breading, like I used to do with sunnies as a kid. The taste of that bass still haunts me to this day! Without a doubt, it was the most terrible meat I have ever eaten; it tasted just like how lake-bottom muck smells, even after being soaked in soda water, breaded, fried, and drizzled with hot-sauce, lemon, and tartar.

For the life of me, I cannot understand how people actually enjoy the taste of big bass. Cat food would be more appetizing.

Do you like the taste of smaller bass, just wondering.

[Scarborough817]

 

it makes me so mad because in my experience its the people who do not even pay for the state to maintain the resource. They don't have fishing licenses, registered their boats, etc. Then they are depleting a resource that we pay the lions share of protecting and preserving. 

my feelings exactly this is why i have no sympathy for these type of people. i laugh when i hear them complain about getting ticketed for not having a fishing license, what did you honestly think would happen?

[Last_Cast]

As long as they feed their family, do what you gotta do.

Personally I've kept very few.

The ones I did keep, we did eat for dinner.

[the reel ess]

Do you like the taste of smaller bass, just wondering.

I do. They're the best eating. And they're the only ones I keep.