Killing bass?

A friend directed me to a local fishing web site. One of the
discussion pages was about freshwater fishing. I was amazed to see
pictures of guys holding up stringers of dead bass like it was still
1954.

I don't think I have killed a bass on purpose in over 20 years and I
don't think I know anyone who still keeps bass. Do any of you folks
eat bass?

Dick Durbin

"Olebiker" wrote in message
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A friend directed me to a local fishing web site. One of the
discussion pages was about freshwater fishing. I was amazed to see
pictures of guys holding up stringers of dead bass like it was still
1954.

I don't think I have killed a bass on purpose in over 20 years and I
don't think I know anyone who still keeps bass. Do any of you folks
eat bass?

Dick Durbin

When I gut hook a fish in a tournament I'll put it on ice instead of in the
livewell. It looses less weight, and the meat stays fresh. It is illegal
to throw away dead game in Arizona if you are the one that killed it. Also,
if I take a kid fishing I will often keep a small bass that they caught for
them to eat if I can't get them onto some big sunfish.

Lots of folks eat bass, they just don't talk about it much because the small
core of C&R extremists will start pelting them with bibles. (Note I said
extremists. Not all C&R anglers are way out there, but enough are.)

Personally I don't care for bass. I happen to like sunfish and bluegill,
and if I can catch them I much rpefer crappie.

Big stringers of dead fish though is a waste. If you want one take one. If
you want to take two. If you want more get a job and go to the grocery
store.


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Never did fish in the Yuma area. In my younger days, I would camp & fish
both sides of the river and canals (CA. & AZ.)
all the way up to the Davis dam. In 1994, I took an exciting 30 day
adventure, it was great. The Salton Sea was my favorite and thats going
back quite a few (too many) years. LOL. Have caught some nice bass and
huge cats in some of the canals around the Palo Verde and Blythe area on
the CA. side. Oftened fished for carp using a mini rod & reel on 10 lb.
test line. Wish I had my photos handy. All boxed away in unmarked boxes.
By the way, I live in east San Diego county, El Cajon. Still great
fishing in this area, so I read. Have a nice day. (Dick)

This is a Corvina caught at the Salton sea. Wish I coukld say "the gal
is all mine".

Killing bass?(Bob)

Group: rec.outdoors.fishing.bass Date: Sat, Jun 2, 2007, 10:21am (CDT-2)
From: (Dick)
Never did fish in the Yuma area. In my younger days, I would camp & fish
both sides of the river and canals (CA. & AZ.) all the way up to the
Davis dam. In 1994, I took an exciting 30 day adventure, it was great.
The Salton Sea was my favorite and thats going back quite a few (too
many) years. LOL. Have caught some nice bass and huge cats in some of
the canals around the Palo Verde and Blythe area on the CA. side.
Oftened fished for carp using a mini rod & reel on 10 lb. test line.
Wish I had my photos handy. All boxed away in unmarked boxes. By the
way, I live in east San Diego county, El Cajon. Still great fishing in
this area, so I read. Have a nice day. (Dick)
This is a Corvina caught at the Salton sea. Wish I coukld say "the gal
is all mine".
========

Hi Dick, I guess we are both old enough to remember the "good ole days"
!

I fished the Salton Sea back in the early 70's, caught some nice corvina
off the old coast guard fueling pier. But the heat, the wind, and the
smell, finally got to me, and I opted for the river later on!

There was one beer bar there on the "Sea", and it wasn't air
conditioned, and the beer was warm, but you could get out of the sun
anyway grin.

That place reminded me a bit of west Texas....miles and miles of miles
and miles....and nary a tree to mar the view !

Sorry to hear you are not able to fish anymore...that's about all I do
now a days.

John K

On Jun 4, 11:38 pm, (John B) wrote:
That place reminded me a bit of west Texas....miles and miles of miles
and miles....and nary a tree to mar the view !

Reminds me of a teacher I had back at the University of Louisville.
He had just moved to Louisville from Lubbock, Texas. He commented
that it looked like we had a "tree problem." He complained that he
was claustrophobic for the first couple of months.

"Olebiker" wrote in message
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On Jun 4, 11:38 pm, (John B) wrote:
That place reminded me a bit of west Texas....miles and miles of miles
and miles....and nary a tree to mar the view !

Reminds me of a teacher I had back at the University of Louisville.
He had just moved to Louisville from Lubbock, Texas. He commented
that it looked like we had a "tree problem." He complained that he
was claustrophobic for the first couple of months.

On the flip side I've seen folks come out to the desert and swell to fill
the open spaces. They literally become a bigger person. (No I don't mean
get fat. LOL.) Others just hide in small house under the airconditioning.


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Bob La Londe
Fishing Arizona & The Colorado River
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On Wed, 30 May 2007 12:55:51 -0700, Olebiker wrote:

A friend directed me to a local fishing web site. One of the
discussion pages was about freshwater fishing. I was amazed to see
pictures of guys holding up stringers of dead bass like it was still
1954.

I don't think I have killed a bass on purpose in over 20 years and I
don't think I know anyone who still keeps bass. Do any of you folks
eat bass?

Dick Durbin

Yes. I haven't seen anything identifying them as endangered. Small ones or
extremely large ones I release, but otherwise I take them home and eat
them.

I will eat Bass. We have a lot of Slot lakes in Texas and they encourage us
to take the smaller under the slot bass. I eat a few and take the others and
put in a local pond my kid fishes all the time.
"Olebiker" wrote in message
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A friend directed me to a local fishing web site. One of the
discussion pages was about freshwater fishing. I was amazed to see
pictures of guys holding up stringers of dead bass like it was still
1954.

I don't think I have killed a bass on purpose in over 20 years and I
don't think I know anyone who still keeps bass. Do any of you folks
eat bass?

Dick Durbin

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says...
A friend directed me to a local fishing web site. One of the
discussion pages was about freshwater fishing. I was amazed to see
pictures of guys holding up stringers of dead bass like it was still
1954.

I don't think I have killed a bass on purpose in over 20 years and I
don't think I know anyone who still keeps bass. Do any of you folks
eat bass?

Dick Durbin

Sure.
I generally don't even fish for bass exclusively, but I'll fillet a few
1-3 pounders iffen I gitem :-)
I eat the majority of everything I catch: crappie and bream (favs),
stripe (white bass), sauger, catfish, even drum.
Ask about my carp cakes recipe, too!

MM

On May 30, 3:55 pm, Olebiker wrote:
A friend directed me to a local fishing web site. One of the
discussion pages was about freshwater fishing. I was amazed to see
pictures of guys holding up stringers of dead bass like it was still
1954.

I don't think I have killed a bass on purpose in over 20 years and I
don't think I know anyone who still keeps bass. Do any of you folks
eat bass?

Dick Durbin

I eat bass filets several times a month. I don't keep anything over
about 2 pounds and usually keep spots or bass in the in the size on
lakes with slot limits that the DNR says should be removed from
lakes. I especially like bass 12 to 13 inches long.

An acre of water will support a limited number of pounds of bass.
Fishermen can remove them or they can die naturally. Here in the
south bass reproduce in high enough numbers and grow fast enough that
fishermen don't do any damage to the populations - we still have a ten
bass daily limit.

Ronnie

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