fishinwrench

Didn't take me long to find a post of yours that I agree with.

OK, but don't show such favoritism on ME. You're gonna be one busy little corrector around here.

Nope, not gonna stop. Get over it. Block me.

Shut up, mjk86. I'm sick of you quoting me with your twisted interpretation of the things I say. Haven't you noticed that I stopped responding to your crap long ago? There are a million+ post on this board, and I'm sure a bunch of them can be skewed to conflict with your views. Go find somebody else to make meaningful corrections on. I'm not here to educate anyone or change the world, I'm just here bullshittin' with fishing buddies.

I eat alot of Whites, I prefer them over any other fish for several reasons. Crappie basically have no flavor, they are just something to put some yummy batter on, but White bass taste like fish is supposed to taste, plus Whites are fast growing and short lived so contaminants (mercury, ect.) in the meat are minimal compared to other species of the same size. I let the knife float up off the skin just a tiny bit to reduce the amount of red in the fillets, then I quickly trim out the lateral line. I can't tell a difference between ones cooked the same day they were caught vs. fillets that have been frozen for 6 months. It's always delicious fried or baked. Just caught a good mess this evening BTW.

Oh boy, who's gonna moderate that one?

Sure. Shouldn't be a problem. Have the serial number off the motor when you call them. http://motorguide.factoryoutletstore.com/cat/24614/MotorGuide-Trolling-Motor-Parts-Accessories.html?cid=18039&chid=1&gclid=CjwKEAjw0pa5BRCLmoKIx_HTh1wSJABk5F_4ZXHFcNaOtIsjrpq_QtjVxP9N073V5u39sEacQ-eGRBoCF1jw_wcB

It's done some pretty cool stuff, but when you factor in the cost......and the waste. Efficiency and value are a component of worth, are they not?

What you're probably seeing are big gizzard shad.

Good on ya, buddy. Those guys look as healthy as any of us. We are all walking around with it, aren't we? It just hasn't gotten bad yet. Sad stuff. I'm not sure how I'd handle being told I had a terminal disease. I think I'll continue to avoid doctors so that I never have to hear it. With zero health insurance coverage it wouldn't do me any good to know anyway.

It's fishing. That was too easy, gimme another one.

I can honestly say that I get TONS more bites when a worm/jig/lizard/grub is initially sinking than I do when I'm "retrieving" it. The most important time to concentrate is the first 5 seconds after your bait enters the water. Guys/Gals that don't even engage their reel until their bait is on the bottom are only catching 1/100th of the fish possible.

Since it's your home away from home maybe there's a number you could add to contacts. Become a pillar of the community and start reporting the violations you witness. If no attention is given to your reports thru the season then attend the yearly meeting and raise hell about it.

We had beers over the phone.

What is it that y'all love so much about that place? Not trying to kick off any drama, I just would like to hear how the positives outweigh the negatives for some people.

Oh sweet! Why'd that happen? Just testing to see if anyone has learned anything....or been listening.

Good grief! Mention a better method of scoring for tournaments and now everyone assumes that closing seasons is the only alternative. Back up a bit. Immediate C&R unless you plan to keep and eat them will do just fine. Transporting fish for any other reason (like to show off how awesome of a fish slayer you were today) is uncalled for.

Yeah like that's gonna happen. You must have forgetten how insanely busy you are!

Show me the one where it says there's no effect.

I went out for a post-Bash evaluation Monday and took a serious beating. 6 short fish and quite a few half-hearted bites that I couldn't connect on was the best I could do. I flipped shallow flats, worked over some good steeper rocky areas, and C-rigged several points, banks, and gravel pockets. The bite was dead as a hammer. Saw alot of bass beds, but no fish even close to them.

I don't do "service calls" (dock calls) any more, but I did for quite a few years. Many of my favorite fishing spots were found that way, and often enhanced by making a few rock piles and/or stake beds while I was there. I don't consider that unfair in any sense but I do acknowledge that it was (and remains to be) an advantage.

With all that's been said I still think the best move is to weigh/score/release immediately. In all other fishing regs once a fish is added to your creel it is yours. You either release unharmed immediately or keep it and add it to your daily limit. You can't cull trout, can you? Noooo, cuz they cost money to raise and stock. The MDC set their culling laws to allow it in bass tournaments. Why ? Are they looking out for the ethical treatment of fish (which is what they get paid to do) or are they pandering to a group that spends some money elsewhere? Pretty sure we know the answer to that, and the bottom line is that it's not cool. It's odd that none of their Biologists care to recognize that constantly relocating fish like LMB could disturb the population balance that they supposedly care so much about, with all their electroshocking, tag tracking, and other crap.

I think the funniest thing about that deal is that we had some chickens... One rooster (Clyde) managed to survive. During the clean-up afterwards ol'Clyde literally tried to kill us all. He was one mad sumbitch! You'd start a chainsaw or pick up a shovel and he'd blindside you in the head. Several folks were anxious to lend a hand but we're reluctant/scared. They'd say, "Man I wanna help in any way I can.....but we need to do something about that #%&@*n Rooster first". I didn't have the heart to shoot him, so It took 4 of us 3 days to capture him and escort him out of town.

Pink tail, or gray tail ? Oh good god, I hate decisions like that.

I think relocating fish for "sport" needs to stop. It wasn't such a big deal back when EVERYONE wasn't participating, but it is becoming a real issue now. The technology is available now to score differently while keeping everyone just as honest as the OLD WAY ever did, so if there just has to be 200 tournaments per year on every lake in the nation then I think it's time to explore some different ways to score them. Bass are Home Range critters that typically live their entire life in a chosen cove/creek. Constantly relocating them to unfamiliar areas at the rate it is being done these days may be better than killing them all but it still has to be drastically altering their habits. After all they are Largemouth Bass.... not Stripers. If you catch a couple 3-4 pounders along a bank somewhere now you aren't learning anything because you don't know if you are developing a pattern or are just catching fish that are TOTALLY LOST and swimming around aimlessly.