Thread: Catch and release, catch and eat, or both?

A lot of both. When you catch several thousand per season it is easy to do both.

Catch and keep for both but no more than I catch it isn't a problem.:D

For the most part I catch to eat. But (isn't their always a "but") when it comes to a small body of water, I like to release the largest males for that body of water. On some lakes that is only a 1/2 pound and other places upwards of 3/4 pound. It has been proven many times over that the largest male bluegill control the population size.
A friend timed and filmed me filleting gills. I clean them w/ eletric knife in 24 to 30 seconds each so I don't mind if they are a bit small. :rolleyes: Yum Yum,
Crappie- I eat them. Mike

I keep only what can be fillet, the rest I leave for D.I. or Carl.

mostly C&R all fish. we need to leave some big fish for our kids to catch. when im hungery for fish i usually keep a few.

my vote C&E, however I release dinks

I release the small crappie, but the small gills I usually keep in a trough at the house to use as flathead catfish bait. grizzly

Originally Posted by grizzly

I release the small crappie, but the small gills I usually keep in a trough at the house to use as flathead catfish bait. grizzly

Most of my bream fishing is for bait .

I think we should take into consideration the future of fishing and fishermen....I don't think we should "waste" our natural resources...However, we need to survive....Keep only what you can eat and release the others...LC

I usually kept most of the fish I catch but release the small ones and small cats and bass.