Thread: Culling / Catch and release

Originally Posted by luvpt

The females are slap full of eggs right now. It makes sense to cull all the very large females to #1) keep their "big fish" DNA in the gene pool; #2) renew the resourse. There is no point whatsoever right now to keep a big sow unless you just have to have it mounted. The "eaters" make better fillets anyway..... Do our sport a favor and release those big mammas after you've had the thrill of catchin' em and then be able to keep this resourse renewed for both us and our children on down the trail.

X2. Threw ALL of our fish back yesterday, big and small. Didn't need em, so why kill em!!! If you need em, eat em, but if ya don't, why NOT chunk em back? JMHO


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