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Offline Iceassin

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How do you rate your gills?
« on: Dec 17, 2010, 09:28 AM »
Just curious as to what you call your catches...

< 5" = Bait
5-6" = Chips or Huffs (HUngry For Fish)
7-8" = Keepers or Eaters
9-10"= Slabs or Nice Ones
10-11" = Bulls or Flounders
> 11" = Hangers or Wallflowers
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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #1 on: Dec 17, 2010, 09:31 AM »
it depends... i would love to keep nothing but 8+ inchers but we all know this is veryy rare. I will norm keeo 7+"  and maybe a couple 6"  it really depends on the bite and what the avg for that day is... and also how much i want fish that night lol
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Offline BMW20

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #2 on: Dec 17, 2010, 10:01 AM »
Quote from: crosscobra on Dec 17, 2010, 09:31 AM
it depends... i would love to keep nothing but 8+ inchers but we all know this is veryy rare. I will norm keeo 7+"  and maybe a couple 6"  it really depends on the bite and what the avg for that day is... and also how much i want fish that night lol

This is pretty much me as well. When the wife starts chewin' my arse for some fish dinners I start keeping a few 6"ers. Same with perch. Normally don't keep anything under 8" - unless the wife starts at it again............then I keep a few 7.5"er's (never less than that though as they are too much of a PITA to cut)
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Offline popnfish

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #3 on: Dec 17, 2010, 10:04 AM »
Tasty  ;D
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Offline RLWagner

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #4 on: Dec 17, 2010, 10:06 AM »
Quote from: Iceassin on Dec 17, 2010, 09:28 AM
Just curious as to what you call your catches...

< 5" = Bait
5-6" = Chips or Huffs (HUngry For Fish)
7-8" = Keepers or Eaters
9-10"= Slabs
10-11" = Bulls or Flounders
> 11" = Hangers or Wallflowers

I concur with your list ;)
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Offline Redbone

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #5 on: Dec 17, 2010, 10:22 AM »
*Dinks instead of Bait*
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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #6 on: Dec 17, 2010, 10:23 AM »
Anything I catch over 7" is called DINNER. 
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Offline skunkmaster

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #7 on: Dec 17, 2010, 11:58 AM »
any size big enough to filet is a keeper. 
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Offline Mr_Jigster

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #8 on: Dec 17, 2010, 12:01 PM »
dinks and keepers
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Offline pzoch

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #9 on: Dec 17, 2010, 06:54 PM »
7" plus and they are dinner sometimes a few 6 inchers
are added for filler.
A dink is also a skibbler in my book.
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Offline icemantwo

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #10 on: Dec 17, 2010, 08:54 PM »
Each time I go out I just keep my best 10 as long as they're bigger than 6 inches.  It is a good idea to do this in small ponds and pressured areas so you don't overfish it.
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Offline fishin machine

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #11 on: Dec 17, 2010, 09:03 PM »
7 1/2 and up are getting eaten...
4 1/2 and less are tip-up bait...
In between goes back...
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Offline sawman

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #12 on: Dec 18, 2010, 09:09 PM »
7-8 eaters ,,yes anything less go back....
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Offline Blue83

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #13 on: Dec 18, 2010, 09:14 PM »
Trash, i through em back and hope for pearch
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Offline panfisher07

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #14 on: Dec 19, 2010, 07:31 AM »
Anything over 7 is usually what I call "in the bucket"
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Offline afishhawk

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #15 on: Dec 19, 2010, 08:04 AM »
6" your fishin' in the nursery

7" are "Dinks"

8" and up are "Go Homers"
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Offline Rat-Man

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #16 on: Dec 19, 2010, 09:28 AM »
Quote from: Tree Toad on Dec 17, 2010, 12:12 PM
There are small ones and eaters and nothing inbetween.


That sounds right to me !
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Offline Bobberbob31

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #17 on: Dec 19, 2010, 09:39 AM »
6 " r prospects
7 " r borderline but not good enough.
8+ " r goin home
11+ " r goin to the taxidermist...
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Offline stumpjumper

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #18 on: Dec 19, 2010, 11:28 AM »
 If I can a fillet off them I keep em. Thankfully the last 50 haven't been under 8"..
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Offline C P

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #19 on: Dec 19, 2010, 12:45 PM »
I dont keep any less that 10 inches!  :P
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Offline tommy-n

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #20 on: Dec 19, 2010, 02:24 PM »
have you ever kept one yet ::)
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Offline Mondo

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #21 on: Dec 20, 2010, 02:42 PM »
Quote from: C P on Dec 19, 2010, 12:45 PM
I dont keep any less that 10 inches!  :P

You must be female!
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Offline RLWagner

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #22 on: Dec 28, 2010, 01:30 PM »
Kitty and I nab 2000 plus fillets in an average winter. So if all we took were ginormous breaders the population I smaller lake could become negatively impacted over the years. So we each harvest our first 25 fish over 7. This ensures a nice mix of age class. We do it all over again come spring the same way. 
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Offline jvanhees

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #23 on: Dec 28, 2010, 01:35 PM »
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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #24 on: Dec 28, 2010, 01:49 PM »
Quote from: Iceassin on Dec 17, 2010, 09:28 AM
Just curious as to what you call your catches...

< 5" = Bait
5-6" = Chips or Huffs (HUngry For Fish)
7-8" = Keepers or Eaters
9-10"= Slabs
10-11" = Bulls or Flounders
> 11" = Hangers or Wallflowers
So this am then i caught 8 slabs, 13, 8-9 inchers so I will call them nice ones seeing you left that out and 4 eaters!
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Offline mboies

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #25 on: Dec 28, 2010, 02:45 PM »
Quote from: skunkmaster on Dec 17, 2010, 11:58 AM
any size big enough to filet is a keeper. 

x2 im not pickey
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Offline raate

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #26 on: Dec 28, 2010, 02:47 PM »
Quote from: skunkmaster on Dec 17, 2010, 11:58 AM
any size big enough to filet is a keeper. 
the smaller ones crisp up quicker in the fry daddy....yum.  ;D
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Offline Mich Nimrod

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #27 on: Dec 28, 2010, 04:10 PM »
Quote from: skunkmaster on Dec 17, 2010, 11:58 AM
any size big enough to filet is a keeper. 

Same here from the newbie. 
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Offline esox_magnum

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Re: How do you rate your gills?
« Reply #28 on: Dec 28, 2010, 04:14 PM »
Anything under 8 goes back anything over gets ate. Some days if the bites good we up the keepers to nothing under 9.
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