How big before you HAVE to keep it and mount it.

[tyrius.]

my opinion is that if your a true bass fisherman , YOU WOULD NEVER KILL A BASS !!!!!

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[Big Bait Fishing]

my opinion is that if your a true bass fisherman , YOU WOULD NEVER KILL A BASS !!!!!

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is there some thing you find ironic about what i said ???

[tyrius.]

my opinion is that if your a true bass fisherman , YOU WOULD NEVER KILL A BASS !!!!!

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is there some thing you find ironic about what i said ???

Well, the fact that nearly every single bass fisherman who has fished for any length of time has been responsible for bass dieing.  A fish may not have died in your hands or under your fillet knife, but the chances are darn near 100% that you've killed one.  Gut hooked, gill hooked, hooked through the eye, broke off and the fish couldn't shake the lure, overstressed it, barotrauma, secondary infection from handling the fish, etc, etc, etc are all reasons why a fish can die after it swims away from you.

Add to that the fact that fisheries management (biologists and the like) recognize the need for selective harvest in managing fisheries and you've also got one solid scientific reason why your opinion is incorrect.

In summary, if your opinion were capable of being true, then there would be no true bass fishermen as that is the only way to guarantee that you have not killed nor will kill a bass.

[Crumb]

tyrius...well put.

The only thing I can add to that is what do you think of "fake" bass fisherman like....Bill Dance, Bobby Murray, Tom Mann, Roland Martin...I think you get the point. They all at one point kept and killed bass. I know it was a different time, but your statement was very general.

I believe, in some lakes, there is a slot limit for a reason. To better the fishery you have to take some to help the some.

Just my 2 cents.

[mase088]

I'd only keep a state record bass, which in most circumstances, would mean the legal world record bass since I'm from Georgia.

[Big Bait Fishing]

Well, the fact that nearly every single bass fisherman who has fished for any length of time has been responsible for bass dieing. A fish may not have died in your hands or under your fillet knife, but the chances are darn near 100% that you've killed one. Gut hooked, gill hooked, hooked through the eye, broke off and the fish couldn't shake the lure, overstressed it, barotrauma, secondary infection from handling the fish, etc, etc, etc are all reasons why a fish can die after it swims away from you.

Add to that the fact that fisheries management (biologists and the like) recognize the need for selective harvest in managing fisheries and you've also got one solid scientific reason why your opinion is incorrect.

In summary, if your opinion were capable of being true, then there would be no true bass fishermen as that is the only way to guarantee that you have not killed nor will kill a bass.