Catch and release ?

[Chief Grey Bear]

2 hours ago, cnr said:

You don't want to start a fight but put the above line in your post. Throwing rocks always starts a fight. 

Does anybody in St. Louis own a fillet knife?

I think he was just being funny. 

[Flysmallie]

1 hour ago, sms_alum said:

Maybe we should give up fishing all together and take of photography. Zero mortality.

You go first.

 

[snagged in outlet 3]

34 minutes ago, Chief Grey Bear said:

Does anybody in St. Louis own a fillet knife?

I think he was just being funny. 

I do.  I use it to delicately cut open a bag of Redhot Riplets.  THE greatest chip in the world.

[marcus]

i dont usually keep fish but when i do there crappie

[MOPanfisher]

At some point I have eaten or tried to eat one of about every fish of legal eatable size that I have caught.  Shad being the exception,  Bass, drum, carp, suckers, trout, bullheads, buffalo.  I haven't landed a legal muskie yet but would likely try one just to see if it is as bad as I think it would be.  Gar, haven't caught a gar in many years, but a buddy in school used to make a chowder like stuff in a crock pot that was delicious.  I can't brink myself to keep a smallmouth any more, but gogglers especially if on a float trip, they are gonna get crispy, funny how they never make it home.  A lot of what I would or wouldn't eat depends on how fish hungry I am and what is left in the freezer.  As for hurting the fish or their feelings, ehh, not worried.  I do try to "euthanize" (which I think is latin for whack them on the head) them prior to filleting them, but mostly that is a self preservation move.  I can tell you a story about butchering domestic animals that convinced me they knew what was going on.  We had 5 200# or so hogs in a trailer, one at a time we would let one into the back part, pop it in the head, and commence to bleeding, gutting, skinning, and hanging up to cool etc.  Usually stop for a cup of coffee then go get another one.  The last hog, absolutely refused to come to the back of the trailer and actually rooted up a rubber mat, crawled under it and simply stayed there squealing like he was being electrocuted, no doubt he had seen the end coming.  Guess I am not much of a touchy feely type, cause we butchered him too.  Growing up I knew every animal we raised, and many had names, and I knew which ones were destined to come back from a trip to town in white paper packages.  Maybe growing up like that has tainted my mind.  Beef, hogs, chickens, and channel catfish at one time, etc. they were all raised for consumption or sale, never lost any sleep over it, still don't.

[Chief Grey Bear]

7 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I do.  I use it to delicately cut open a bag of Redhot Riplets.  THE greatest chip in the world.

Ha! 

I wonder if this would be a good time to re-post that fish filleting video of you I have. It got deleting last time. It was Tom Foolery and we ain't having none of that!!

[Flysmallie]

25 minutes ago, Chief Grey Bear said:

It was Tom Foolery and we ain't having none of that!!

Thats what you get for making a mockery of his inventory.