5bites Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 Get over it guys. Champ you know I like you a lot and you are one of my favorite guys on the site but this chastisement needs to stop. All of you listen to me now, if a few of us keep a few fish we are a just fine. Great in fact. This is what is happening so that's a good thing! We are doing it right guys! This has been going on forever and just look at how great the lake is right now! Read the fishing reports. The lake is kicking butt! If we all keep all the keepers we catch we are in deep trouble. This is not even close to what is happening. Crappie fishermen keep everything over 10" almost all the time. They are just fine. If our priorities were right and in the right place abortion wouldn't even be in the dictionary. Put a bass on a stringer a couple times a year and hypocrites thinking that they never catch or weigh a bedding fish (Champ, Bo) and people lose their minds. These lakes are managed. They will never be void of bass. The fishermen care and the conservation care. Regulations may have to change but Table Rock will always have bass. This is seriously becoming redundant, ignorant, hypocritical, bullcrap guys. Riverwhy, Seth, evilcatfish and 1 other 4
GNSfishing Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 Get over it guys. Champ you know I like you a lot and you are one of my favorite guys on the site but this chastisement needs to stop. All of you listen to me now, if a few of us keep a few fish we are a just fine. Great in fact. This is what is happening so that's a good thing! We are doing it right guys! This has been going on forever and just look at how great the lake is right now! Read the fishing reports. The lake is kicking butt! If we all keep all the keepers we catch we are in deep trouble. This is not even close to what is happening. Crappie fishermen keep everything over 10" almost all the time. They are just fine. If our priorities were right and in the right place abortion wouldn't even be in the dictionary. Put a bass on a stringer a couple times a year and hypocrites thinking that they never catch or weigh a bedding fish (Champ, Bo) and people lose their minds. These lakes are managed. They will never be void of bass. The fishermen care and the conservation care. Regulations may have to change but Table Rock will always have bass. This is seriously becoming redundant, ignorant, hypocritical, bullcrap guys. Hey 30 years ago it was better then than what it is now, many larger fish were caught. So why do you think the length limit went from 12" to 15" length limit and the daily limit was dropped from 10 to 6 per day?? Yes we were fishing the bass population out and of course we had a fish kill too. But the handwriting was on the wall and the MDC done something about to save it. That's when a lot of us went to a catch & release on our own to do our part in preserving a resource. There are plenty other species of fish in Tablerock that is as good and/or better than eating than Bass, Whites are everywhere and easy to catch. I fished then and I fish now and know the difference of what the increased pressure has produced.
5bites Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 So you think because 30 years ago it was better or there was bigger fish it has something to do with a minority keeping some fish? Please tell me that is not the logic here.
5bites Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 Whites are not as good to eat btw. Also as I've said before I do not eat bass out of our lakes. Just private ponds/lakes that need it. I will keep a bleeder though so I'm not being wasteful.
mjk86 Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 Seeing these pictures make me wanna throw up. These are fish that will lay the eggs to my kids and his kids fish and so on. Champ you shouldn't apologize or be expected to for your comments that was the truth and people need to hear it. Thank you. Why would you not keep the cats and walleye? Why the bass? You must have a really weak stomach, have you seen a dr about that? joeb8719 1
mjk86 Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 The keeping of a few fish is one thing, but this seems all keeper bass went into the livewell and were filleted for supper.. I am a true believer you can hurt this resource if this type of behavior is continued, and then we will hear, Table Rock sure isn't like it use to be. This could be a long drawn out post, and I will stop at that, I am agree with Champ, not sorry for posting this, I live here and that resource is very valuable to me Our family has fished kimberling city...the same few points and docks every august since 1977. We have kept every legal fish that we have pulled out of there, making for some very large stringers over the years.....oddly enough, they are still there, on those same points, and the fishing is the same. Riddle me this?
m&m Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 mjk86, any chance you want to share those points and dock locations? lol Mike
abkeenan Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 Whites are not as good to eat btw. Also as I've said before I do not eat bass out of our lakes. Just private ponds/lakes that need it. I will keep a bleeder though so I'm not being wasteful. I'll tell you what. I'll keep a 15" Kentucky and then keep a couple white bass and fix them as I do. I'll blindfold you and have 2 plates one with the white bass and one with the black bass and I'll bet you a pre-rapala wiggle wart that you couldn't tell the difference between the two. Ketchup 1
Members AAD Posted June 5, 2015 Members Posted June 5, 2015 We make it to Table Rock once a year for a week. We do keep some fish for a family fish fry at the end of the week. We do not keep and clean every legal fish we catch. Almost all of them are K's. Any fish well over the 15" range is tossed back, usually after a pic. I have even brought frozen bass from Texas on our trip just so we don't feel the need to keep as many. We do keep and clean whites and the occasional eye or cat we happen onto. While we do like to post our daily success or failure on the forum, I would not post a pic such as the one above. However, their smiling faces do show how much fun they had that day. Also, from the dock at the resort where we stay, we have seen guides stop and have their clients clean their fish. Which is also within their rights. Sometimes the guides drop the clients off there, other times they get back into their boat to go elsewhere. I think 5bites summed it up pretty well in post #31...
gitnby Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 I vote we discontinue using the word "keeper" to describe bass over 15"! There are better words like "legal" or "qualifier" or "good un". "Keeper" should only be used to describe a spouse who either enjoys fishing with you or allows you to fish whenever you want? Or, for those of you whose wives threaten to divorce you for fishing too much, you are allowed to use the universal motto of "Cheaper to keeper"!
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