California "bassocide"

[Basswhippa]

Throw me in with the civil disobedience crowd.   It is a "black bass" after all. 

[Catch 22]

Throw me in with the civil disobedience crowd.   It is a "black bass" after all. 

A little  civil disobedience is a good thing if done right. The anti`s are trying to take from us, so pushing  and shoving back is OK by me. It bothers me that they want to play God by killing one species to save another.

 

BASS LIVES MATTER

[BassMaster17]

I dunno what tournament fisherman would do but as a recreational angler I'd just let them go.  "It slipped out of my hand back into the water while I was holding it"

that would be my #1 quote if i fished on the delta, its too perfect.

[rboat]

I think whoever the idiot is who came up with this legal nonsense should be caught and never released. No one has the right to tell you that you must kill a fish you caught. The bass would most likely slip out of my hands back into the water. You know they can be very slippery critters.

[Big C]

BASS LIVES MATTER

 

 

It's the other BM, "Bass Matter"

[gobig]

Striped bass have coexisted with these so called threatened native fish for more than 135 years and black bass for 140 years. I would say that the threat is probably not the bass but man.

[hawgenvy]

There are wonderful native fish species that anglers can catch throughout the world. And when non-native species are introduced, there may be unforeseen and disastrous consequences for native species and for other aspects of the victimized aquatic ecosystem. Florida strain largemouth bass have been introduced all over the globe for sport. If and when they become top predators in those areas there is the potential for extinction of entire native species. This, apparently, is happening now in areas of Africa. What man does selfishly and shortsightedly, over and over, that ends up screwing over natural ecosystems is unconscionable. It seems we don't learn from our mistakes. And we sometimes respond emotionally rather than intellectually to sometimes prudent laws that are put in place to try to correct the damage.

 

I know next to nothing about the aspect of this proposal that would prohibit anglers from returning non-native species into the waters of the Delta. But it's worth hearing the argument in some detail, and the science behind it, before reaching a rational and well thought out decision on whether that provision has merit.

 

We humans, and especially bass anglers, must be responsible stewards of our freshwater habitats, and that means acting selflessly when it's the right thing to do; and it means listening to the opinions of the biologists who spend their careers studying these habitats. The scientists might not always be right, but they know a lot more than I do.

 

And I probably don't know as much about this stuff as some of the other anglers on this site, but it is clear that many posts here are generated through emotion rather than through a deeper intellectual understanding. And that is a shame.

[bigfruits]

 

If you won't kill bass, find a small pond or another body of water that doesn't have these rules.

 

do you ever drive over the speed limit? if so, would you consider riding a bicycle and getting rid of the car so as to not break the law?

 

It is an issue of obeying a written law.  Everyone has the choice to either live by those laws or join those who don't.  If someone decides to break the law, they are no better or worse than anyone else who breaks another law.

 

 

 

so a person who jay walks and another who murders are the same in your eyes?

 

a law telling me to kill something is not one that I would follow just because it was a law. they can kill them without my help. (and they will as I live on the east coast!

[the reel ess]

I voted wrong. But to tell the truth, CA's laws are so stupid I'd disobey most of them whenever I could get away with it. That state's elected officials have decided to screw the entire state into the ground forever. They always choose the stupidest, least logical, most expensive option and put the pedal to the metal.

[the reel ess]

Striped bass have coexisted with these so called threatened native fish for more than 135 years and black bass for 140 years. I would say that the threat is probably not the bass but man.

Any species of gamefish in the striped bass' range is another source of food.

[Dye99]

I live here. And the laws that are passed are a joke.

I don't pay attention to many of them now, so Cali can go to hell, Im not going to start listening to them in the future.