Members Bigfishscott Posted June 9, 2015 Members Posted June 9, 2015 When bigger tournaments are here in Missouri in July and August. They tell you that once you catch your 5th fish your done for the day. So once you catch 4 fish you have a decision to make. You Can Not cull in July and August. You put it in the well you keep it weither you have 2 or 5.
fishinwrench Posted June 9, 2015 Posted June 9, 2015 When bigger tournaments are here in Missouri in July and August. They tell you that once you catch your 5th fish your done for the day. So once you catch 4 fish you have a decision to make. You Can Not cull in July and August. You put it in the well you keep it weither you have 2 or 5. No, you release it, possibly hours later, after weigh-in. So in one aspect releasing one earlier is a good thing.
Members Bigfishscott Posted June 9, 2015 Members Posted June 9, 2015 You can not keep 5 fish and keep throwing them out one at a time. You can by the law,and the tournament says you can only have 5 fish at weigh in. You have 5 fish and you catch a 6lber you can keep that fish and throw one fish back. But you daily limit has been met and you may not keep any more fish for the day.
dprice Posted June 9, 2015 Posted June 9, 2015 Culling is the practice of releasing one fish that was caught previously so you can keep a larger one. When anglers put the last fish of their daily limit in a live well, they no longer can keep any fish of that species that day. However, under certain conditions, anglers fishing in tournaments can continue to fish if they stop one fish short of a limit and release a living fish from their live well before replacing it with a fish they just caught. This allows them to “trade up,” replacing one fish with a larger one. Tournament bass anglers may cull live bass from September through June. July and August are the months the no culling rule applies. The rule is meant to reduce the number of tournament-caught bass that are subject to higher mortality during the hot summer months. The rule also heightens tournament anglers’ awareness of the factors that influence fish mortality. Missouri’s limit on black bass is six per day. This includes any bass that are not released immediately, whether they are in live wells for one minute or for eight hours. Once you placed a sixth bass in your live well you may not replace any of the bass with another. However, if you are fishing in a tournament in which the limit is five bass, and you have five bass in the live well, you can replace one fish, one time. If a bass dies in your live well it cannot be replaced with a live one, any time. If you have caught your sixth legal bass and have placed all six fish in your live well for any length of time, you can continue fishing but you must release any bass caught immediately, regardless of size. Dprice priceheatingair.com
Members topher Posted June 9, 2015 Members Posted June 9, 2015 If in a buddy tournament, my partner and I can use separate live wells and cull through 12 fish if we never have more than 5 in the boat right? This rule is so vague that it gets mind boggling.
fishinwrench Posted June 9, 2015 Posted June 9, 2015 Topher, the bottom line is that IF you are in a tournament you can still cull your best 5 fish limit, regardless of whether you have a partner or not. You can twist it any way you choose but THAT is the way it is enforced.....As if it ever has been (or will be) enforced, which it hasn't and won't be. It's not even among the polygraph questions.
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