There would be an incresase in fish frys.  Which would make many fishermen eat in.  Which would make restaraunts lose money.  When they lose money they will have to lay people off.  When they lay people off there will be an increase in unemployment.  When an increase in unemployment happens there will be an increase in crime. When crime increases there is a good chance your car will get stolen.  Don't let your car get stolen, vote against keeping 5 fish limits

There would be an incresase in fish frys. Which would make many fishermen eat in. Which would make restaraunts lose money. When they lose money they will have to lay people off. When they lay people off there will be an increase in unemployment. When an increase in unemployment happens there will be an increase in crime. When crime increases there is a good chance your car will get stolen. Don't let your car get stolen, vote against keeping 5 fish limits

Sound Like a directv commercial

That's not true at all. If you catch a bass on a crankbait, he's going to remember that crankbait for months and you'll have to catch him on a jig. If fish only had a 20 min memory, pressured waters would be a non-issue.

Bass can remember, but they don't truly "remember" so to speak. They only remember that there may have been a negative stimulus, which depends on how traumatic the experience was, and a host of other factors, not to mention a fish's natural instinct. Some crankbait strikes are indeed feeding strikes, but most are generally a reaction strike, in which the fish's natural instinct bring it to react to the wobbling bait by striking it.

Even an earthworm can learn to avoid negative stimuli.

That´s it, from now on I will only fish lakes where the population of fish has a PhD, ok, I´ll settle for less, at least a Masters Degree.

The lake I fish most of the time has a 6 bass a day limit. Bass 12" to 15" have to be released. You can catch a limit of short fish every day. I go one day a week some times two. I love to eat the little ones so I keep them. Most of the Bass are 13" to 14" and a lot of 4 to 7lb. bass. Most of the guys I know never keep a Bass just the Cat fish.

As long as it's only during the season ie summer, I doubt many of the people who are fishing for them most in the summer would actually be able to catch their limit every time out.

C&R mortality is also higher in the summer because of the water temps and fish depths. And again, the people who handle the fish the most are kids/tourists/etc, taking pictures, using barbed treble hooks, live bait, light/damaged tackle, etc.

I think there would only be a problem if the season included spring, or if there was no keep limit during the season.

Oh, you mean like the number of fish that are brought to weigh in at a tournament? And lakes and areas that have tournaments most weekends?

I feel that those dead big fish are a much bigger, but ignored and swept under the rug , issue.

Or better yet, what if no one was allowed to fish a certain lake for 10 years. Like that California lake. 10 years of uninterrupted spawns and habitat. Oh my :DD

 

 

 

 

What lake was that?

 

 

 

What was the result?

Speaking of slot limits. One lake in Va used to have a bass slot limit to help with fish management.

The problem was catch and release was defeating the purpose of the slot limit since very few kept the target fish.

The slot limit was done away with.

What would happen?

 

People would get sick of eating fish