MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
And I'm good with frozen fish. The secret? 2 dont's...over rinse too long after cleaning and NEVER soak in salt water. Zip lock freezer bags 3/4 full of water...burp the air...into the freezer. Re-rinse a little after thawing. Good for about a year. Never had a complaint from those I gave to or fixed for.
A guy from Colorado sends me this picture of about 13 trout between 10-14”. He tells me that is was his buddy out there and his buddy sent him a picture, and he was sharing this picture with everyone??? Thoughts? So... I explained to him that it’s always fortunate for the one guy who’s knows all the rules for them not to apply to him. In my opinion, if your going to catch it to eat it, play by the rules. Yes it is annoying when your having a great day on the water, but conservation and not over harvesting a lake it just as important. CO has the worst influx of people and the reservoirs are suffering big time from all of these people, not playing by the rules.Just my opinion on catch and release
I spend a lot of hours in my dark/spear house every year. Most days I don't even bring the spear, for me it's the enjoyment of watching the fish. Almost every year I see fish in the 20# class come to my decoy and eventually leave, it never gets old. WS
A limit of panfish does not go a long way in this household.i got to fight the heathens off to get a few fish in my belly!!lol when my kid was younger i could get by with 15 fish but now the wife and kid love fish and we eat a limit of fish for dinner easily.
I know guys who fill their freezers with stocked trout every spring. Then a week before deer season they throw out all the trout to "make room for venison".A week before trout season they throw out all the venison to "make room for trout".I don't fish or hunt with idiots like that...
Drummer, I couldn’t agree with you more. This is a definite violation of the regulations, (unless there were several others fishing with him), and should be addressed. It’s people like that who take more than they’re entitled to, and deplete the resources. I hate hearing that!
I know guys who fill their freezers with stocked trout every spring. Then a week before deer season they throw out all the trout to "make room for venison".A week before trout season they throw out all the venison to "make room for trout".
I don't fish or hunt with idiots like that...[/b]
Sounds like an enormous waste. Perhaps they give it to friends/relatives or at least a food program.
I can understand releasing fish. Especially if you fish a lot. But, I only fish 2 or 3 times a week. We only eat fish once or twice a week. However, even if I limit out when I go, I'm not going to throw the fish back.
So if I understand you correctly, you are hereby openly admitting that you are taking home more fish than you are allowed (more than your legal limit)?
I went back to read the original post, the whole post and nothing but the post, and that's what it came across as... SNITCH..... are you saying that if you catch your limit - youll continue to keep fish because you give them to other people who don't fish? what are you sayin!!!!!!?
Here's my take:For the most part those folks fish ALOT. AND often they catch fish. I know the "fill the freezer" mentality. Usta be there. Then, sure enough, every coupla years I'd find some freezer burned hunk(s) of fish jammed in back or the bottom not fit for human consumption so it would get pitched. Can't feed it to the pets, good as I am, they don't know how to look out for any stray bones. My new personal rules became if I've got two meals in the freezer it's C&R unless I'm eating that catch fresh in the next 24 hours. Just me.Additionally, there are possession limits. That's the total amount of fish you can have in your possession at any given time. In WI it's one daily bag limit plus that same amount in your fridge, freezer, cooler. where ever. That means if the daily bag limit for walleyes is 5, I can catch 5 walleyes and take 'em home. I can do that again tomorrow too. BUT if I put 'em all in the freezer and I go fishing again I would be violating to keep any of my walleye catch.This.Back to the celebrity anglers: Since they have reputations to maintain how would that look if they not only catch fish but a ticket for violating whatever at where ever? Not so hot. So C&R is really necessary for lots of those folks. Of course they promote C&R as well and yep, it's sound silly to folks like us that have time where we struggle to catch fish with any regularity. But we're not them. I got hollered at for keeping a 22" walleye during the spawning run one year. "You're killing millions of walleyes!" It was the only fish we caught all weekend and we only made the one trip that year. Sure, I was the bad guy but it was ONE FISH. C&R is a slippery slope both for folks that do or don't. Usually I just try and mind my own business. If someone doesn't like it I consider that their problem.
I watch a lot of ice fishing videos on Youtube and I see a LOT of catch and release videos.Jen and I are always sitting there asking each other why. I mean... It wouldn't even occur to us, unless they were not keepers or were breeders.But all the time, we are seeing eaters being tossed all day long and none kept too many time.We just dont get it.Anyone here that can explain this to me, I would listen with an open mind but I honestly just dont get it.
I'll never understand it I fish so I can eat them a whole lot cheaper than buying fish.
Now that is very debatable.
In fact, cheap fish is a VERY tough sell, even with ice fishing. Add softwater and $50,000 boats and the fish at the supermarket becomes a very good deal.Then, there is the cost of a pound of venison to consider, fully amortized...on second thought, let's not.
I have to put my faith in harvest numbers being set by the biologist in charge of the bodies of water, as to over harvest. When people are not following those regulations then they are breaking a law and thats not anything that I am endorsing.