Mega Longear Sunfish

[BilletHead]

20 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said:

I usually go one step further, I just don't catch big fish.  Makes it easier.

        That's because all the stabbers got them first .  Lumpy is the ring leader. Find out in episode 23 of season 3. Ward and June gets a divorce after finding out Beaver has been poaching on Beaver. Too many Walleye over the stabbing limit. 

  BilletHead

[tjm]

If  a trophy fish is 8# now and we manage to get millions (or even dozens) of 8#ers by banning rod and reel fishing (or even barrel shooting of fish, whatever it takes)  and by manipulating genetics or force feeding the fry; what will be a trophy fish then? Will there even be a trophy size when all fish reach the max size and age? What sort of person wants to live in the midst of long dead animals, anyway? and if you don't stuff it, how can it be a trophy rather than just a fish story? And what will become of all the "record" fish when all fish become record size?  MOPanfisher may be onto the solution.

[Johnsfolly]

3 hours ago, tjm said:

If  a trophy fish is 8# now and we manage to get millions (or even dozens) of 8#ers by banning rod and reel fishing (or even barrel shooting of fish, whatever it takes)  and by manipulating genetics or force feeding the fry; what will be a trophy fish then? Will there even be a trophy size when all fish reach the max size and age? And what will become of all the "record" fish when all fish become record size?  MOPanfisher may be onto the solution.

You've touched on a few points that we have discussed before and have become the concerns that I have about triploid fish particularly brown trout. They have manipulated the fish so that it will not reproduce but puts on weight instead. To me they should be thought about separately from diploids in terms of what it means to be a trophy. To me a 6# diploid trout is a trophy. For a triploid maybe that is a 12# or even a 15# fish. Don't get me wrong since I would love to catch either fish over 6#. If it is a diploid fish there will likely be a reproduction mount made😁. If a triploid I will trying for a bigger one.

[Old plug]

 

If your old enough Al you might remember when there were monsters walleyes in the St Francis. Back in yesteryear where i come from there was one spot that walleye over 10 were taken every year. The yuppies and yippies are not real fisherman. They are just wanna-bees seeking attention. I recently met a young fellow who just financed a new bass boat for 20yrs. Of course that means the rest of there family will have to sacrifice so he can pay and run that thing.  Geezzxz such a fine display of resposibity. He will blow the motor before it is ever paid for. Way were going there might not be a world 20 years from now anyway.

[Quillback]

What's a "yippie"?  

[tjm]

16 minutes ago, Quillback said:

What's a "yippie"?  

I had forgotten about those people -per urbandictionary.com  " Term created by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin in the mid-1960s to refer to "members" of the Youth International Party (YIP!). The YIP! was dedicated to merging New Left activism and the hippie counterculture to create a revolution that would be both personal and political--as well as fun. Yippies tended to gather in large cities, particularly in Manhattan's Lower East Side, where Rubin and Hoffman both lived during the 1960s. Yippies rejected all -isms, including socialism and anarchism, in favor of the motto of "Do your own thing"--i.e., don't conform to a specific system of belief but rather be an individual. At the same time, collective action was at the root of Yippie activism, and Yippies participated in "be-ins" (normally associated with hippies) and other collective gatherings....."

 

[Quillback]

Ok, thanks.  Hard to believe that if they are out on the lakes fishing, that will contribute to the world ending in 20 years.  Heck, I believe both Hoffman and Rubin have passed.  

[tjm]

 Maybe the grand-kids out there planing revolution now? 

Hoffman-1936-1989, Rubin-1938-1994.. both kinda old to be student protesters in '68 at the Democratic National Convention.

[MOPanfisher]

Anybody who fishes, doesn't have time, energy or money to spare for a revolution.

[tjm]

Everybody had more time in the '60s, there was always time for a march, or a be in, or a love in, or an assassination, or a riot; or a barely paid trip to a foreign place with a new haircut. '68 was a busy year.