Quote Originally Posted by Beaubayou View Post
I have been know to cut the hook off if I fish the same area for several days after I saw the Heron dead. I think the rules on recreational trot lines and hoop nets have to be tagged with your name, licence number and date set. Trot line also are to have a cotton lead from the tree or limb so if you leave it, it will rot off and go to the bottom. I have seen several sun dried fish at Larto, not sure but I doubt they are any good to eat like that, don't think you could cook enough rice to go with that. My wife and I put a 10" min when the freezer is out of fish and once we start having pretty much in the freezer we go to 12" and 12 to 15 fish limit, mainly because she hasn't learned how to felit them and I don't like cleaning too many. We are lucky enough to get to fish 10 to 12 days a month.
I wish more folks did what you do........at my camp and my brother-in-laws camp next door, we have a 10" min. on white perch and rarely come in with more than 30 fish per boat...some weekends it's normal to have 6 to 8 boats fishing out of the 2 camps, those are our rules and all abide by them.....we catch all we can eat,so there's no need to come in with a ice chest of 6 inch fish!!!!
A few weeks ago, I had one of the most enjoyable fishing trips I've had in a long time, I managed to catch probably 50+ fish in the last 2 hours before dark and kept 15, of the 15, one was 10.5 inches long and all the rest were 12 inches long or better.........I had a blast catching the fish and was more than happy to throw back 8 to 10 inch fish........once I have 10 to 15 slabs in the live well,I'm happy,that's all I need or want to clean at one time.I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've kept more than 25 fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!