Thread: Keep or Throw Back

That’s a keeper when measured, assuming the head is “sitting right.” A TWRA agent once told me that the Frabil Checker is what they use to measure. That being said, if I’m not immediately heading to the ramp after measuring that one, it’s probably going back.

Too close for me, I'm not about to get into a disagreement with a CO over an eighth inch, cause I'm not likely to win.

Any that I keep need to be at least a quarter inch longer than the minimum.

I have 20/20 vision and I swear that looks like a nine. Ohh I see, this is one of those games like the different color dress thing right????


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Ohhh I see it now!! The 1 is hard to see. Throw back.


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I thought it was a 9 too. A fish that close for me goes back. Why take the chance? You could eat steak for a week for what one ticket would cost you.

That is the 10in mark that his tail(one lobe) is just barely over, my board needs a good dunk in the lake. For me, both lobes of the tail and the depression or cut in the tail must be over before I keep them. From eyeballing this fish I figured he would be close so I measured him and returned him promptly. Sorry if the picture looked like he was 9in, a throwback for sure.


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Throw back. Be careful of those measuring devices also. I had a fish that clearly showed 10 1/8 and when the biologist put it on a golden rule it was short. Not by much but short just the same. Alive and released there was no issue but had it been the TWRA man, different story. If I look at the fish from the top and it has small shoulders, it gets a pass. Even if it’s 11”.

I thought it was a tad over nine at first but now I see the 10. Throw back.