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mm and mm.you had an outstanding day and well that was that. i personally am happy to see the fish go to use. well lets say a good use. remember guys..this is indiana...no limit on gills and no restrictions on usage. by that i mean i'm glad they are going to be eaten by a family as opposed to what i ran into a year or so ago. as i was comming onto the ice a couple guys were walking off with a few BUCKETS full of gills..mostly small 4-6 inch gills. i made a comment about not alot of size and they said it didn't matter as they were just useing them to feed the hogs.i was about sick... as this was not an isolated occurance....FISH FEAR THE BEARD!
that's what I call a good day of fishing !!
I don't see anything wrong with catching and keeping that many fish if they are going to his family and friends, myself don't like cleaning gills that small . I was fishing on Tues on a lake i know real well and caught probably 50+ gills I kept 14 that were between 8 - 11 ins that was plenty for me and my wife plus a mess to give to my dad who can't get out anymore. I had been watching a young feller (20 -24 yrs old )about 30 yrds from me he wasn't having much luck so when I was done I walked over and ask how he was doing? he had 5 that were about 5 in, I told him I was leaving and I had a hot hole if he wanted to move,I gave him one of my flies I was catching them on and his first drop caught a 9 incher , he thanked me over and over !! I walked back to the car with a nice mess of fish and and a new ice buddy ! that's what I call a good day of fishing !!
9 quart bags stuffed full.......MM[/qThat many bluegills and only 9 quart bags "stuffed". Either 6" was youre absolute biggest, or youre about as good with that fillet knife as you are with youre ethics. Wasteful!!! uote]
It's all the ethics and morals you were raised by. Would I ever keep that many bluegill? No not even if they were all 8"+. I would keep enough for a few meals for my family (50 tops) and release the rest for another day. Does it bother me by what these guys did? No, not really. They are hurting their own fishery. You ever see pictures from the 1900's when there were no limits on duck hunting and guys would have pick up trucks full of dead ducks? Makes me sick to see that today, but back then it was accepted. Why? Because there were no limits.(Image removed from quote.)
Quote from: Marcum Man on Dec 19, 2008, 04:31 AM9 quart bags stuffed full.......MM[/qThat many bluegills and only 9 quart bags "stuffed". Either 6" was youre absolute biggest, or youre about as good with that fillet knife as you are with youre ethics. Wasteful!!! uote]yep 9 quart bags is all I got, but, I don't knowhow many bags my father in law got, he took 3/4 of a 5 gallon bucket full home with him to clean up for his 85 y/o mother and 80 y/o mother in law, and himself. He asked me for some so I let him have 'em.....MMps. have your mommy change your diper
Five or six days of limits of fifty fish?? KOBIYASHI would throw up!!!! You cant eat that much!!!!!
#1. I doubt that you caught 375#2. If you did catch that many' then your ethics are to be questioned.#3. Why in the H--L would you keep 6" when you're on them like that? I have no problem keeping 6" panfish when that's all that I can catch, or to make a dozen .........but come on man. #4. Alto of guys feel this way but wont say it.' Sorry if I offend you with this post.
Can't keep my mouth shut on this any longer. While everyone dreams of days like that, it is absolutely foolish to EVER keep that many fish. It's not about ruining the fishery, although if it was a small lake or pond you may have set it back many years by keeping that many. On a larger lake like Wawasee it would do no damage at all. That is unless all anglers decided they needed that many fish. While I'm sure it was a lot of fun, it is definitely not something to brag about. It's more fun to brag about the days you catch 30 and the ten guys all around you only get a few. A freakin two year old could have caught the fish you two were catching. Not at all impressed. Too easy
So now ur gonna tell me what i can and can not eat?i kept about a hundred for my self,my g/f and her parents and the rest went to my cousin,father and grand father.everything was spread out and those fillets never made it to the spring lol.
Ask the amish how many and what size they catch and keep out of wawasee. I have seen coolers full of 5 inch gills, 6 inch perch and sub legal bass taking off there in the summer, but no one harrasses them. They keep everything they catch. They don't even let them get to spawning size. 375 fish out of a lake bigger than 30 acres should not have much of an impact at all. There are many schools of fish in any given body od water. I fish a lake (just over 100 acres) in the spring and summer and have taken 100s of gills out of there in the course of a year. I see others doing the same. Yet year after year, summer after summer there are 8-10 inch gills in this lake for the taking. This has been going on for 20 years of my life and 30 more years of my dad's life and the fishery stays the same. It does not matter if they take 375 in one sitting or catch that many over the course of the year. The net result is the same on the fishery and any fishery that has schools that size obviously can sustain the harvest. I would venture to guess that many people on this site catch more than the 375 pannies over the course of a winter fishing season. I know slabgill and I have taken 142 pannies this year already in 5 trips out. I would never keep that many in one sitting becuase I would not want to clean that many at one time, but over the course of a winter, we will catch and keep that many or more. Add the rest of the year in and you would be surprised how many fish can be caught and kept and not hurt the fishery.As I said before, this was a day of a lifetime for these guys. The critisizm they are getting by those that don't agree with it is a bit over the top, when they did nothing unlawful.
"Catching that many in the course of a season and catching and keeping that many in one sitting are two totally different things"I agree 100%
WAX- what he is saying is that IF we all fished like that, then how would that be? Besides that, they claim that they do this all the time. And again why would you keep 6" fish when youre on em like that? Ive seen your alot of your posts and never seen a 6" fish.