These are not gigged bass

[Mitch f]

6 minutes ago, dtrs5kprs said:

I fight the pet bass urge on occasion. It's not right, but gosh it's tempting.

The fish was placed in the aquarium until it went to its final destination at the Bass Pro aquarium in Lees Summit, MO

[Chief Grey Bear]

2 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Well.....just because a few idiots can't drive very good with a buzz, DUI is now the most sought after CRIME in the country.  

I think it's safe to say that more pole/line fishermen get enforced upon than giggers.   

And why is it that guys only gig at night anyway?    Suckers don't act any different at night than they do during the day.  I've never done any gigging but it seems like you could come up behind a sucker and stick him just as easily during the daytime.  Guys snag them during the daylight hours.

Most sought after crime?

Huge difference in driving with a buzz and driving completely out of your mind drunk. But that's a nice way for you to quantify it.

And I can't really believe somebody of your vast knowledge of fishing and biologist and everything else, would ask the question why do they gig at night?

But you do understand the difference in snagging and gigging correct? If not, there is not really any need to go any further. 

[Chief Grey Bear]

1 hour ago, Al Agnew said:

It's already been touched upon, but fish don't have the capacity for complex thought, including imagination, prediction, and deduction.  I've seined and trapped bunches of minnows and young game fish, carried them around in a minnow bucket for an hour or more, scooped them out with a hand net, and dumped them into my aquarium.  They immediately either swim frantically around for a few minutes or dive for the bottom and hunker down.  They appear totally freaked out.  But a half hour later they are back to acting normally and if you feed them at that point, most of them eat as if nothing is wrong.  Their fear, if it was true fear, is a direct result of the stimulus at that time, and they don't remember it and dwell upon it.  If the aliens plucked you out of your house, beamed you up to a spaceship, and stuck you in a cage, you think you'd be back to normal in a half hour?  Nope, you'd be scared to death about what else was going to happen...because you have that capacity for complex thought and imagination, and your imagination would be coming up with all kinds of horrible scenarios.  With fish, as soon as the trauma is past, they've probably forgotten about it except for a conditioned response that may or may not work to make them avoid it in the future.

And the same is true for mammals. It may take longer than a half hour though. 

[Chief Grey Bear]

12 minutes ago, dtrs5kprs said:

I fight the pet bass urge on occasion. It's not right, but gosh it's tempting.

 

12 minutes ago, dtrs5kprs said:

I fight the pet bass urge on occasion. It's not right, but gosh it's tempting.

Get a Kentucky. All the east coast guys hate them anyway.

[dtrs5kprs]

28 minutes ago, Mitch f said:

The fish was placed in the aquarium until it went to its final destination at the Bass Pro aquarium in Lees Summit, MO

Neat. 

[fishinwrench]

24 minutes ago, Chief Grey Bear said:

And I can't really believe somebody of your vast knowledge of fishing and biologist and everything else, would ask the question why do they gig at night?

But you do understand the difference in snagging and gigging correct? If not, there is not really any need to go any further. 

I understand why they gig at night,  but I don't understand why they never do it during the day.   Educate me.  

And yeah I know the difference between gigging/snagging.  I also know that it's easier to gig than to snag.....yet snagging is done in the day time.   Again, educate me.  

[dtrs5kprs]

23 minutes ago, Chief Grey Bear said:

 

Get a Kentucky. All the east coast guys hate them anyway.

Maybe one from Stockton too.

[Chief Grey Bear]

22 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

I understand why they gig at night,  but I don't understand why they never do it during the day.   Educate me.  

And yeah I know the difference between gigging/snagging.  I also know that it's easier to gig than to snag.....yet snagging is done in the day time.   Again, educate me.  

You understand why they do it at night yet don't understand why they don't do it during the day? 

The same reason you don't put the big motor in the front of the boat and the little one in the back. It works, just not near as good. 

[Chief Grey Bear]

25 minutes ago, dtrs5kprs said:

Maybe one from Stockton too.

No. Gotta be from the Meramec.

[grizwilson]

9 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

There are ways to deal with a gut hooked fish that give it a chance. Hard to see that opportunity with a freaking spear.

Question I have is why not limit gigging to very specific bodies of water? 

From someone who lives in a State without a "closed Season" for gigging?  At least we do have seasons......Have been checked more times gigging than ANY other fishing, one time I did receive a warning ticket.... my license was in the truck, had to go back and produce it......  We do it right, teach it right.  Guess next we get rid of handicapped parking because some abuse it, then .....

“In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught.”
― Baba Dioum