After you get your limit

[Jeremy Ray Green]

(02-19-2013 05:06 PM)OldTimer Wrote:  The angling number and size limits are set to hopefully properly manage the sustainability of various fish populations while still allowing some harvest.

It is a condition unique to this pass time we enjoy. Hunters strive to kill their prey, thus leaving no decisions required ……….. Success = Instant Death, and limits are considered before aiming the gun.

An acquaintance of mine tells me that “Anglers get to play God” in these regards. He may be close in his assessment…………… sometimes.

No matter how you dress it up - You can’t have this sport without inflicting some sort damage on the fish……….. some is temporary and some is possibly permanent or fatal – by the puncture wounds, net wounds, lactic acid stress, pressure sickness, the freezing or frost bite of their eye surface tissue in winter, suffocation…………. Etc.

I enjoy fishing and will continue to do so as long as I am able while strictly obeying the regulations as may be established. I may keep fish occasionally for food. I shall strive to minimize my impact. That’s about the best I can do, or shall do.

Cheers,

OldTimer

I want to finally add,

I keep release about 99.9% of the fish I catch.
The only ones i keep are the ones i unintentionally kill upon my angling adventures.

If it was out of season or over my limit i would have to release the fish regardless of how i feel about "WASTING" the fish.....

I would just perfer to limit those options.

and that is my choice/opinion.

I would almost always never hit my limit on any species of fish i was targeting, as i perfer to let them swim away.

but some people have different thoughts about the fishery than others.


I want to add, that is you have a limit of fish and a conservation officer deams you are targeting that same species that you are already over the limits of, they could possibly give you a real hard time, and may possibly fine you if they feel the matter is in need of a correction.

Its up to the angler..

But honestly we fish for tomorrow....

Why waste it... ????


~Jeremy