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Those 11.75 inchers with the bandit down in the gills. Often they have a gill taker broken out when they come in.
Wish they would let you keep a couple of short fish rather than having to throw them back. I know nothing is wasted in nature and turtles have to eat but still hurts to throw back one that cannot live. Enid.... 40 caught, 6 keepers.
Happens but way more go out the spillway than we kill with a crankbait
Yeah seems to be pretty uncommon for me to get one in with a torn raker. I think out of the 60 or so shorts I've caught recently only one has had this issue. If it is gill hooked and not torn I pull the hooks out from the bottom side very carefully as not to do any more damage. And does one torn gill raker mean the fish will definitely perish?
Thought the same thing, if a fish looks to be in bad shape should be allowed to keep it rather then throw it to the turtles. To bad we can't have a honor system, but people would just be ripping up gills in order to keep short fish if I had to guess :dono
The COE is in charge of flood control not fish management till a tourney. Then they are in the fish management business!
Yeah I agree. Its hard enough to throw back a 11 7/8" crappie especially if you know its gonna die, but like you said nature will make short work of them. I trolled by 2 or 3 dead floaters friday
Outlaw crankbaits
And jig poles, make only yoyos legal!!!!!!
Dont matter how you fish..some will be hooked too deep and die..
Those dead fish are not a waste. They are fertilizer and food for small creatures when they decompose. Circle of life.
I tend to collect a lot of that white bass fertilizer myself... lol.. ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by hotrod1
Yep.....Make those 'mater plants jump!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Snubbys
You drove past Waaaaaay better fishing right now. [emoji4]Quote:
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The corp is only in the fishing business when it pays them to be. [emoji857][emoji857][emoji857][emoji857]Quote:
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Take off the treble hooks and just put on a single hook .
That aint gonna matter any Chris, thye taking it so deep sometimes that whatever hook is goona do damage, its just fishing.
Was gonna try Grenada next but now I am not so sure. As far as the killing undersized fish, I know that nothing is wasted in nature. Just hard to explain that to that crappie you just killed.
It's a shame that some fish don't make it, but that's the way it goes in all of nature.
I don't explain anything to a crappie tho. [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
Had herring swoop down and fly off with a 11". He finally lifted off. Ha
Have you ever stopped to consider the numbers of hours logged per year by enforcement and the hours fished by all fishermen ? I would not worry about how many died from the release of injured fish. Lived there on that lake for 14 years . 80 % of the folks I knew would laugh at you for throwing any back . Lassie,flipper, rat patrol and the Waltons way of life no longer exist .One of the reason I like crappie .com guys is because "most" do right in the sight of the law . jmo.
This weekend was my first time pulling cranks in Mississippi and I had a hard time throwing back fish that I knew were going to die. I was raised if you kill it you eat it. I do appreciate the better than twelve inch size limit ya'll have in Mississippi. We do not have a size limit here in Georgia. I wish we had at least a ten inch size limit.