Middle meramec report

[Chief Grey Bear]

  On 3/8/2017 at 1:34 PM, Flysmallie said:

I think that tossing them up on the bank is a fine. No different than a gigger sticking a smallmouth at that point. 

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   No you don't.  

 There's no way to justify either one.  But silence is acceptance.  And ignorance. 

[Flysmallie]

  On 3/8/2017 at 2:40 PM, Chief Grey Bear said:

   No you don't.  

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No I don't what??

[Chief Grey Bear]

 You did not think that throwing any fish up on this bank is ok. I know you better than that. 

[Chief Grey Bear]

 Anybody that does, is not the ethical outdoorsman that they claim to be.

[Brian Jones]

  On 3/8/2017 at 9:58 AM, Chief Grey Bear said:

If you catch a meanmouth, do you throw it  on the bank too? 

Or do you let the interracial ones go because they do have some smallmouth genes in them?

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A meanmouth is a "mongrel" in my eyes and I only acknowledge pure anglo saxon smallmouth as the supreme bass...................  Joking aside, yes we remove the meanmouths that we catch; just as if they were a spot.  But we take them home and eat them........

  On 3/8/2017 at 12:46 PM, trythisonemv said:

Are the spots so bad that you have to kill them? Seems wasteful could eat them or something.  

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Yes they are that bad; especially on the middle and lower sections of the river.   We had a couple of trips in October where I would compare the fishing to that of fishing an overpopulated farm pond where the majority of the fish are small.  In fact, we've taken over a hundred out of this stretch of the river since October and only around 10 percent of them have been over 12 inches with the MAJOR majority of them being between 8 and 11 inches.

I certainly don't condone throwing them on the bank as that is considered wanton waste IMO.  But there's definitely too many of spots in the lower river and not enough people removing them. 

[Flysmallie]

  On 3/8/2017 at 3:05 PM, Chief Grey Bear said:

 You did not think that throwing any fish up on this bank is ok. I know you better than that. 

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I didn't mean it was fine to do, what I meant was I think you can be FINED for doing that. I don't care how many runts there are. I just can't support that. 

[bfishn]

  On 3/8/2017 at 3:48 PM, Flysmallie said:

... you can be FINED for doing that.

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Yep;

Wantonly leave or abandon wildlife = $175

[Chief Grey Bear]

  On 3/8/2017 at 3:39 PM, Brian Jones said:

A meanmouth is a "mongrel" in my eyes and I only acknowledge pure anglo saxon smallmouth as the supreme bass...................  Joking aside, yes we remove the meanmouths that we catch; just as if they were a spot.  But we take them home and eat them........

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Now that was funny! 

  19 minutes ago, Brian Jones said:

I certainly don't condone throwing them on the bank as that is considered wanton waste IMO.  But there's definitely too many of spots in the lower river and not enough people removing them. 

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 Glad to hear you do not randomly toss them away.  Even though nothing in nature goes to waste, it is a waste to do that. 

 

[Chief Grey Bear]

  On 3/8/2017 at 3:48 PM, Flysmallie said:

I didn't mean it was fine to do, what I meant was I think you can be FINED for doing that. I don't care how many runts there are. I just can't support that. 

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Oops.  I misread that. I missed the "a" .

[MOPanfisher]

Maybe we need an OA event on the Meremec, target spotted bass, with a fish fry to follow.  A little Cajun seasoning and they would eat fine.