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Post by tommyfishes on Jun 7, 2015 17:09:29 GMT -5
I see a lot of pics posted of some really nice fish on Facebook from the guides and that's great! What i don't understand is..... I would think they would want to release the really nice ones!! Day after day i see really nice fish being harvested. Not blasting anyone just don't understand why?
Lets say i hired a guide, he ask me before we started our day if we catch big fish i would like for us to practice catch and release. I know i would not have a problem with his decision. But i do catch a lot of nice fish so maybe it would be different for some people that use guides and are not used to catching nice fish.
Whats everyone's thoughts??
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Post by smlmike on Jun 7, 2015 19:29:44 GMT -5
Tommy I have been seeing the same thing. Only reason I didn't speak up is because the guides don't seem to tell us if they were harvested or CPR? Not trying to blast them with out knowing what's more than the pictures posted! My hope is that those larger fish are going back and they are harvesting the smaller. By the talks on other threads on here we need some smaller ones to be harvested to grow the trophies?
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Post by smlmike on Jun 7, 2015 19:33:26 GMT -5
And there's no slot right now, that bothers me, with the pictures I have been seeing.
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Post by tommyfishes on Jun 7, 2015 20:06:21 GMT -5
I feel guilty when i keep 3 or 4 small ones to eat a couple of times a year!! most of the guides sure they do CPR but i have been seeing some photos .... um back at the dock. To each their own just thinking they would be a little more protective of their lake.
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Brian
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Post by Brian on Jun 7, 2015 20:14:22 GMT -5
There are a lot of people, probably a large majority, who have no interest in fishing if they can't keep the fish... I can see a guide losing repeat business if he pressures his clients to release big fish.
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Post by mwardncsu on Jun 7, 2015 20:23:12 GMT -5
I would not assume every picture taken is a kept fish - Unless it's showing red or back at the dock or hanging on a board.
I know several of the guides that are very conservation minded and they will tell clients they are releasing larger fish - and will go and target areas known for holding smaller fish of they want to keep a bunch. Tough call for them given they are paid to take folks fishing and the limit is 2 per on SML - but those that kill all the big ones when they can are just shooting themselves in the foot long term.
In my view the guides have a responsibility to educate their clients on the fishery and need for conservation - I'm sure not all of them - or others - will agree with me on that point however.
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Post by BentRod on Jun 7, 2015 21:46:20 GMT -5
I used to battle that too, but at the end of the day, it's a put and take fishery and in the summer with the water 75-80deg+, your big fish are likely dead anyways - you're ignorant to think otherwise. Limit your fishing to what you can use or live with.
What pisses me off are the guides that keep more than their clients allowed limit and then the ones who go back to the dock and unload and go back out. If you're a guide and allow your 4 clients to keep 10 fish bc you're on the boat also, then you're breaking the law. The limit is 2 fish per person - not 2 fish per # of people on the boat. If a guide is running two trips a day (a lot do this time of year) and do it both trips, you've now broken the law twice in one day and illegally kept 4 fish - do it everyday and it adds up - a whole school of 200 fish is completely gone before you know it. I'm just glad I'm not a guide and don't have to make those calls to put food on the table.
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