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    Quote Originally Posted by natertot View Post
    I only catch and release if I don't have a meal. I just can't imagine letting a good bite to eat go down the stream!
    Don't you mean "if you HAVE a meal?"
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    I've heard the asian carp are good eating, but don't have a bunch of meat for their size once you get done cleaning...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sparky93 View Post
    I've heard the asian carp are good eating, but don't have a bunch of meat for their size once you get done cleaning...
    Yeah the Chinese eat so many of them, that they are not taking over their rivers like they are here! We need a new China town by the Mississippi river!

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    When I fish in the lake, I always catch and release even though you can keep anything under two pounds and legal length. They limit the fish to two pounds not cuz there are a lot of them, but because older fish concentrate toxins that may be present. It's too built up around here.

    Surf fishing is a different matter. Because of all the regulations on Striped Bass, I use circle hooks if I'm fishing for them or know they are going to be in the area. Circle hooks don't gut hook the fish, it catches them in the lip (or not at all more often than not). But a Striper has to be 28" to keep. You want to return schoolies with as little damage as possible. You can't highgrade either. Serious fine if you keep one in the water on a stringer now (which I used to do if I caught one on the first cast and had hours of fishing left to do before walking back off the sandbar.) You also can't remove the head or fillet them until you get them home.
    Due to the weight issue on a keeper, even gutted and de-gilled, I have to really want to keep one to hump it all the way back to the truck. My favorite fishing spot is about a mile walk out on long sandbar. Sugar soft sand if you happen to return at high tide.

    Fishing for blues, that's usually dinner. Wire leader and a good strong hook for those puppies.

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    I fly fish, barbless, and haven't kept a fish in several years unless it is bleeding. I usually only fish fresh water here, and if you are going to keep a fish, you must kill it as soon as you complete the catch, so there isn't any culling allowed. I have other types of tackle, but prefer to fly fish even if the catch is lower in numbers. If I wanted a meal, there wouldn't be any hesitation to keeping one that is legal.

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    When I fished as a kid we kept some panfish. Then when I got into bass fishing I was almost all catch and release. I fished literally everyday for at least a decade. The nearest fishable body of water down here is usually not far. The canal from my mom's house was 2 houses down to the west and a block and a half to the east. I have to walk about twenty five feet from the back door to the lake out back. When I first moved into this place in the late 80's, I fished out back in a jon boat every night. All catch and release.

    When we get to saltwater fishing, well, that is a whole different story. We kept our limit on the good eating fish and kept our limit on the legal not so good eating to our understanding fish. We took those to the Chinese fish markets. where they were taken past boxes containing red eared slider and yellow bellied sliders. LOL When I eat Chinese food I never ask what it is I am eating. I don't like to be lied to, if it tastes good just chew and swallow and enjoy! LOL

    Now, lately I have been meaning to try some things. Gar tenderloin and snakehead are said to be real good eats. I also want to do a wild ceviche using wild citrus and a fish caught in the back country. Just need to find a wild substitute for cilantro.

    We have huge carp everywhere. Around here right now the ficus are dropping figs. The carp love those things and catching a 10lber is literally nothing. But, these carp are trifoloid grass carp and must be released immediately unharmed down here. All you need to catch them is a couple of ficus berries on a hook.

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