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If you are not tournament fishing why would you cull fish? If its big enough to go in my livewell its sure big enough for me to take home and eat. I understand being one fish short of a limit and keep fishing till you keep a nice one but don't understand culling a 10-inch fish for a 12-inch fish. If you didn't want the 10-inch fish in the first place just let it go. No need causing undue stress to fish if it can be helped...... What do you guys think?
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Does'nt hurt in a good livewell in cool weather. In hot weather we can't cull because we use ice chests then.
I only cull if the fish are in good shape...There have been times i have caught a limit of good fish and then run into big fish. If the good fish are in good shape i will cull for bigger fish. This is rare for me most times. I will never cull dead fish for bigger fish...just cant do it not to mention it's illegal and a waste of Game fish.
I'm kind of the same mind set as you Handi. Different strokes for different folks but if i keep it in the first place then it's going home with me.
Good example fish get a break and rest from being pulled out of deep water. I leave them in my livewell with a air pump for several days sometimes before cleaning. They look in better shape after they adjust to pressure change and rest. I use only jigs these days so I have mostly lip hooked fish, unlike at times when I used minnows years ago had some swallow hooks.
I cull fish 10" or less. Sometimes I will keep a black crappie under 10" if it looks like a football. Were I fish I dont get close to a limit. 2 people 100 fish is a lot of fish to clean.Some of the lake I fish if you dont keep 10 fish you wont leave with many.
I don't understand this term you use "cull". Does it mean to throw a fish back? What is that? Once a fish is in my "live well" (read cooler full of ice), it will soon be going to 1 of 2 rapid weight loss clinics, and then off to either Lake Crisco, or Freezer Camp.
i guess im not that good at fishing yet , i never catch enough to cull lol
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Why would i cull fish 12in and better? :confused::confused:No reason to over here in Gods Country
Hey Big H. If I am on your lakes I will cull a 12" crappie. My live well is a ice cooler and I cant afford something stupid happening in there.Like George in Sienfeld says "its shrinkage"
If on the rare occasion I were to catch a limit no way do I take them out of livel and throw back just to keep a fish just a little bigger. If were to keep fishing they would all go from hook to lake. Which is not likely to happen because by the time I caught a limit I'd be worn out or it would be dark.
I like to eat the little ones more than the bigguns. I like ketchin' the bigguns.
I thought if you caught a LIMIT, that meant you were SUPPOSED to stop fishin that day. If you're culling from a LIMIT, then before you cull one out with the fish you just caught, for that brief time before you find the one you want to throw back, you're OVER THE LIMIT!!!!! I call BS. It's illegal to cull from a LIMIT!!!!! If you have a limit, you must throw one back BEFORE you catch another one.
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You are correct Bill , must only have 1 short of a limit to keep fishing.Quote:
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That's what I always thought.
I don't absolutely love eating crappie. I give away as many as I keep. I don't really cull---I just immediately throw back the ones that I don't want--usually dinks less than 10". I don't throw back fish that had a hook in the gill, and couldn't care less if I get a limit or not since I'm not foaming at the mouth for crappie. From the research I've seen, hook and line fishing has such a small effect on fish populations in warmer southern lakes, I just don't think culling is a big problem either way.
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Yeah if it's warmer weather and the fish won't make it I keep em. If we are on fish and know it I won't even keep those 10" fish. I've not been in them like that for over a year now but have before. Water we fish if we can get 12+ fish we are doing pretty good so culling won't matter and most of the time those 12 fish will be 12+" fish. Seems often times lakes you catch 50/day they will run smaller and lakes where you don't get but a handful they're bigger.