13lb 4oz Bass - 13 pounds 4 ounces.jpeg

wrote in message
...

Before somebody else says it. The etiquette is to post the picture to
alt.binaries.pictures.fishing and then mention it in reference over here.
Many news servers strip off attachments to posts and others simply do not
propagate the post at all. So, many people will not have seen your post at
all and even if they saw it they will not see the picture. Also there are
still people on dialup connections who may want to choose whether or not
they download large picture files.

Other than that. Nice fish. With all that blood I hope it survives. Did
you gut hook him or catch him down in the gills?


--
Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com

Nice Hawg!
To bad for all the blood! Hope it lives.
wrote in message
...

I wasn't able to see it since it was posted to a non-binaries group. Can you
post it to alt.binaries.pictures.fishing?


wrote in message
...
He was caught with a plastic worm. Bled from the gut but released. I
think he made it if the 'gators didn't get him.

I believe it was already posted there it looked like a good gut hook.
"Charles B. Summers, HOF." charles wrote in message
...
I wasn't able to see it since it was posted to a non-binaries group. Can
you
post it to alt.binaries.pictures.fishing?


wrote in message
...
He was caught with a plastic worm. Bled from the gut but released. I
think he made it if the 'gators didn't get him.

Yeah... right after I posted the message I went over there, and there it
was!

Nice fish! Shoulda kept it... looked doomed anyway. Woulda made a nice wall
mount! (Go ahead... flame away!)


"Pat_RI" wrote in message
news:PST1f.20032$Rk5.16697@lakeread06...
I believe it was already posted there it looked like a good gut hook.
"Charles B. Summers, HOF." charles wrote in message
...
I wasn't able to see it since it was posted to a non-binaries group. Can
you
post it to alt.binaries.pictures.fishing?


wrote in message
...
He was caught with a plastic worm. Bled from the gut but released. I
think he made it if the 'gators didn't get him.

"Charles B. Summers, HOF." charles wrote in message
...
Yeah... right after I posted the message I went over there, and there it
was!

Nice fish! Shoulda kept it... looked doomed anyway. Woulda made a nice
wall mount! (Go ahead... flame away!)

You won't get a flame from me. I'm a firm believer in catch and release,
but I also believe that if the fish is a legal one, a personal trophy and
especially in this instance, where it looked like the fish wouldn't survive
anyway, why not keep it?

It would make an excellent memory jogger, it's a fine trophy and one that I
would be proud to keep. Catch and release is a great management tool, but
in this case, that fish had passed her genes on numerous times and probably
would have died fairly soon.

Who knows? All I know is that had I caught it, bleeding or not, it would
have gone in the livewell.
--
Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers
http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com
G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods
http://www.herefishyfishy.com

"Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers" wrote in
message ...

"Charles B. Summers, HOF." charles wrote in message
...
Yeah... right after I posted the message I went over there, and there it
was!

Nice fish! Shoulda kept it... looked doomed anyway. Woulda made a nice
wall mount! (Go ahead... flame away!)

You won't get a flame from me. I'm a firm believer in catch and release,
but I also believe that if the fish is a legal one, a personal trophy and
especially in this instance, where it looked like the fish wouldn't
survive anyway, why not keep it?

It would make an excellent memory jogger, it's a fine trophy and one that
I would be proud to keep. Catch and release is a great management tool,
but in this case, that fish had passed her genes on numerous times and
probably would have died fairly soon.

Who knows? All I know is that had I caught it, bleeding or not, it would
have gone in the livewell.
--
Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers
http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com
G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods
http://www.herefishyfishy.com


We need to do less catch and release in a lot of lakes. We are getting over
run with dinks in some formerly great bass lakes. Shasta and Clear Lake,
Calif. for 2 as well as Oroville. You can catch a 100+ 12" or less fish in
a day. Hard to get a decent fish. We are overpopulating some lakes with
predators for the amount of forage.

"Bill McKee" SNIP

We need to do less catch and release in a lot of lakes. We are getting
over run with dinks in some formerly great bass lakes. Shasta and Clear
Lake, Calif. for 2 as well as Oroville. You can catch a 100+ 12" or less
fish in a day. Hard to get a decent fish. We are overpopulating some
lakes with predators for the amount of forage.

We've got some lakes like that around here, especially concerning the
walleyes. Many of the lakes have a 3 fish limit, one over 14", two under.
On a couple of the lakes that have the 5 fish, 15", you can fish for two
days, catching 150 fish or more per day and maybe come up with one or two
keepers.

I've talked to the Department of Natural Resources about these lakes and
they tell me that "studies show the lakes have an adequate population of
sizable walleye." I've offered to take them fishing and show them that
there's a difference between studies and actual experience. Not one of them
has taken me up on that offer.

Catch and release is fine, but it needs to be tempered with reality.
--
Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers
http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com
G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods
http://www.herefishyfishy.com