Why aren't the laws written such that a bass can be kept if it's a minimum of X inches or too wounded to survive/killed in the fight?

I don't know that I've ever fought a fish to death. They wear out before they die, generally.

Josh

Why aren't the laws written such that a bass can be kept if it's a minimum of X inches or too wounded to survive/killed in the fight?

I don't know that I've ever fought a fish to death. They wear out before they die, generally.

Josh

I'd say its due to the fact that a small number of people would abuse that law and intentionally injure under size fish so they could keep them.

Sometimes I feel bad that I feed the bass so much plastic.  Maybe a bait company should make a soft plastic that actually doubles up as actual food to the bass!

That would be live bait..... I think a better way to go is make biodegradable plastic baits. Never heard of anyone making those, anybody know of any?

Dear mrs fishing casualty bass let me introduce you to mr frying pan, we'll have a nice dinner !

That's what I'd do. I really don't understand how people can be so worried about a fish when on every cast they could kill one. It's a fish, or dinner, or both.

I seem to have that happen once a season during the warm water period. I know catch and release largely works as I caught one 4 pounder three times over the course of one particular season. So I be as careful as I can handling them and if one dies I prepare that one just as carefully for dinner.

That would be live bait..... I think a better way to go is make biodegradable plastic baits. Never heard of anyone making those, anybody know of any?

 

Berkley Gulp baits are biodegradable.  There was another one...Food Source Lures(?) or something like that.  It is/was made of actual digestible food I believe.

That would be live bait..... I think a better way to go is make biodegradable plastic baits. Never heard of anyone making those, anybody know of any?

 

I believe Gulp is biodegradable!

 

Edit: Whoops, didn't even see the post just before this!