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Why dont you leave the fish alone and let them do what they do so there"s more fish to catch. Better yet why dont you speare them on the beds.
So should everybody stopping fishing for salmon when they start their journey up the rivers, stop catching gills off their beds, stop fishing timber in the spring when the crappie are spawning, afterall they are doing what they do, as you put it.It seems that the bass people are the only ones who have an issue with fishing for the spawning fish. This trend of strictly C&R of bass leaves the waters over populated with 10-14 inch bass. In the old days when more people actually havested the bass you noticed the overall average size was bigger. I love seeing pictures of harvested bass, it shows that some people truely do care about the overall health of a fishery allowing more of those average size bass to grow up to be hogs. If it was really all that harmful don't you think they would put a season on bass or prevent the harvest overall.
FISH FEAR THE BEARD!!
I hear a lot about the amish keeping everything. I wonder if they intend to do that or if it is the alcohol impairing their sense of measurement. I don't believe I have ever actually seen the amish fishing anywhere but Wawasee, and each time they just seem to go out and get hammered.
Ah, this is "Iceshanty.com" please don't talk about spring bass fishing, it makes me depressed! I hope the ice stays until May 2010! Steuben1
like when do you think they start spawing in the shallows
i find it tough to not be, fishing lake michigan, erie, picking mushrooms, or hunting turkeys in may...man that's a busy month. I got no time for bass
Exactly TKO! I don't have time to chase them either and pretty much the same reasons. Although you left out shed hunting.Steuben1