Article: LiveScope is Changing Fishing in More Ways Than Just Tournaments! By Shane Johnson

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Good article. I agree and have noticed the same. Everyone has a camera now. Take a pic and release that fish.

Good read

Not a professional writer ? Really ? Great read sir . I too think our concervation agentcies must act before overharvest of large fish .It takes years to replace the big ones and fishing pressure never been so great between Covid , social media and new high tech electronics .

many of us have been returning the bigger fish we ketch of all species for years. havn't kept many bass at all except when in smaller lakes and ponds with way too many to help restore balance and eating those 12 to 14 inch bass and have shown good results. As for Crappie we ALL have our cell cameras and can take quick pic and then put em back. anything over 13 inches is my thing and even put back my wifes over two lb monster in our home lack for I just couldn't kill that one. We have a great blow up of it on our lake home wall with huge smile on wife's face. Eat the heck out of the 8 to 12 inchers for sure as there is over abundance of smaller crappie there and not many folks fish for them and supply many friends who don't fish at all. Your article is well written and timely. BTW I think because the top anglers all have LS and those they run with do, still don't think majority of those that fish for them have it and it may not be as big an issue as some think.

Thanks for a great post.

Amen & Amen.

I only keep a few to eat, throw back hundreds. I prefer 360 for finding fish. Great post.

"Release a breeder" has been a big movement in the Chesapeake Bay for striper for years. Unfortunately, not enough people listened and our fishery is now a shell of what it used to be. Glad to see the idea being circulated in the freshwater world.

No one wants to "admit" that the invention of the Livescope was bad for fishing. Almost everyone deep down knows that it will hurt crappie fishing, yet we are buying them left and right. The crappie trails have/had a clause in there about no underwater cameras used in the tournaments, yet they turn their heads when the sponsorship money is being handed out by these companies. I applaud the guides that offer a discount for catch and release. They are the ones who have, in a way, acknowledged that Livescope can be detrimental to the crappie world. This is a great article! But, the reason i stopped bass fishing was because of the fact that the bass world frowned upon anyone keeping bass to eat.

Great post... Everyone including myself want to catch those big ones. But they aren't near as good to eat as a 10" fish.

I release 95% of what I catch without livescope. If I had one, maybe I could release more.

I have seen a bit of the reduced limits movement lately here in Texas .

Good read and nicely stated. This should be the way all crappie fishermen think.

Hard to stomach the story while he is posing with the fish he tells us to release????

So,Oklahoma game and fish stores mortality of crappie tournament fish deaths above 70 percent. So end all tournaments first!!!!!! Then come back for a big boy conversation. I worked for a state wildlife agency for 30 years in Law Enforcement, specialized in studies of casual affects of trophy and tournament mortality.