Ban The Alabama Rig Petition

[Guest csfishinfool]

actually I'm pretty sure that even if your are fun fishing and you keep six bass then you can not keep fishing even if you are releasing them,

[tjulianc]

Here is what the MDC says,

Any fish you catch is included in your daily limit unless you release it unharmed immediately . You may not replace smaller fish in your possession with larger ones caught later . You need to make a keep-or-release decision as soon as the fish is caught .

There is one exception: If, from September through June, you are a participant in a bona fide catch-and-release black bass tournament (one after which all bass are released alive), which requires entrants to have a boat livewell with adequate capacity and a pump constantly adding fresh or recirculating water, the black bass you release unharmed from the livewell need not be included in your daily limit . At no time may the daily limit be exceeded

So as long as you release it unharmed immediately it is not included in your limit. If you had 5 fish in your live well and then caught multiple bass either on a A-Rig or a crankbait, would have to release the smaller fish immediately, then cull if you wanted too.

[Iclass]

Another point to bring up, is in tournament competition your are allowed to keep five bass in your possesion and cull one fish at a time. The state limit for bass is six. Tournament limit is five. This gap allows you to cull legally. Now the question has been asked if you have five in your boat and triple on the rig, that puts your two fish over the legal limit. A clear answer has not been made about that also.

See state/tournament rules at Lake Millwood, SW ARK. Legal limit is 3 on this lake, what if you have 3 in the well and catch 2 on a zara spook. The answer is VERY clear. You cull down to 3 immediatley, just like you would in a 5 fish tourney and catch 2 on a DD22.....JEEZ

[Guest csfishinfool]

Its not VERY clear at all... As far as the state goes if you have 8 fish in your possesion, seven fish, etc your over your legal limit

[tjulianc]

Any fish you release immediately are not included in your limit. That seems clear to me.

Its the same as fishing Ozark streams out of season. You can still fish, you just have to return all bass unharmed immediately.

[Guest csfishinfool]

Here is what the MDC says,

Any fish you catch is included in your daily limit unless you release it unharmed immediately . You may not replace smaller fish in your possession with larger ones caught later . You need to make a keep-or-release decision as soon as the fish is caught .

There is one exception: If, from September through June, you are a participant in a bona fide catch-and-release black bass tournament (one after which all bass are released alive), which requires entrants to have a boat livewell with adequate capacity and a pump constantly adding fresh or recirculating water, the black bass you release unharmed from the livewell need not be included in your daily limit . At no time may the daily limit be exceeded

So as long as you release it unharmed immediately it is not included in your limit. If you had 5 fish in your live well and then caught multiple bass either on a A-Rig or a crankbait, would have to release the smaller fish immediately, then cull if you wanted too.

Whats the link, just asking because this contradicts what the conservation agent told me earlier in the week

[tjulianc]

http://mdc.mo.gov/si...2fishsumweb.pdf

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[Guest csfishinfool]

ok got ya. Still seems ify to me. Sounds like they are reffering to a single fish still....

As far as keeping a limit to eat, im sure your not allowed to continue to fish after your limit is filled <----not pertaining to tournament culling

[Guest csfishinfool]

I'll give you that the point made about catching multiple fish is kinda moot, You definalty have the chance to do that with any other multi hooked bait.

But your chances of doing that go up a good amount with the rig.

[tjulianc]

I'll give you that the point made about catching multiple fish is kinda moot, You definalty have the chance to do that with any other multi hooked bait.

But your chances of doing that go up a good amount with the rig.

You're right, sure doubles can and do happen with, say a three treble jerkbait now and then, but not nearly as often as it would with an A-Rig. I think we are both on the same side of the issue, protecting our fisheries. I'm not signing or supporting the petition, but I am open minded to doing so in the future if evidence shows tournaments are using it to the detriment of the fisheries.

How about starting a petition to ban tournaments during April and maybe the first 2 weeks of May? I figure all the big bass that get pulled off their beds during these tournaments does more damage than the A-Rig would. Maybe I'm wrong on this, but it seems that way to me.