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Location: Smith Creek | Jaultman is right. Sharing game is cool. Overharvest is bad. I'm morally opposed to killing what you WOULDN'T eat yourself.
Probably could have worded that better. |
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Location: MN | IAJustin - 1/6/2016 8:57 AM
If your DNR sets bad bag limits I guess that's on them, and yes no one should kill just to kill.
Exactly! I give fish away all the time. The ladies at my work love it and their husbands don't fish. Happy assistants makes my life easier. I also trade duck/fish/pheasants/grouse for venison because I do not have time to deer hunt in the fall. As long as game is being consumed and you are staying within the regulations I see nothing wrong with it.
That said, I have my own personal slot limits that I follow for the species I keep to help protect the populations breeding fish. I also go out and release hundreds of fish each year when I am too lazy to clean them or when my friends, family and I have enough.
I'm pretty sure we are all on the same page. Winternet has arrived! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | What's a 'bad' bag limit, and what corrections should be made to make it 'good'? Think that one out.
And I believe the concept was intended to mean 'Don't kill it unless your WOULD to eat it yourself'.
Compare to 'Don't kill it unless your going to eat it yourself'.
Big difference. |
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| rule in my boat is $5 per inch is to be donated to whatever organization stocked the lake. |
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Location: varies | "Kill it & grill it".
Ted Nugent
http://www.amazon.com/Kill-It-Grill-Preparing-Cooking/dp/0895260360
Edited by rodbender 1/6/2016 6:06 PM
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | sworrall - 1/6/2016 4:08 PM
What's a 'bad' bag limit, and what corrections should be made to make it 'good'? Think that one out.
In my neck of the woods, a panfish bag limit of 25 fish per is a "bad" one considering the current state of the fishery. A single family of four fishes for a weekend and removes 200 ten+ inch crappies. Now look around at all the other boats slamming the crappies as they are staging for the spawn/spawning. Thousands, tens of thousands, maybe more removed from the population in a few short weeks. Now you catch seven inchers, but the ten inchers are tough to find.
So, a "bad" bag limit allowed greed to reign, and it damaged the fishery. Thankfully our DNR fisheries rep is a sharp guy and worked to get the limits changed on the affected lakes. The damage has been done, but at least there's a chance for recovery with stricter regs.
Who the he11 needs 100 crappie anyway ? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Should the limit be ten panfish, or 15, out of which only ten can be crappies? Should the limit be, say, 20 per boat? Should there be a minimum size slot? Shouldn't there be much larger fines for over limit violations? Should the limit be different on every lake? Should the pannies be protected by a more restrictive limit during the Spring?
Wisconsin is working on all of this stuff. |
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Location: MN | I'd love panfish slots, especially on certain lakes with trophy potential. They have implemented some panfish slots on some lakes in NW MN and it is producing excellent results. Too many people think any big panfish should go on the ice or in the livewell.
I think a 10 fish limit is about right for crappies which is what we have in MN. In some lakes it should be less. I'd like gills to go to 10 too, they are 20 now.
Edited by Nershi 1/6/2016 5:34 PM
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | You asked for a "bad" bag limit, and I supplied one. 
sworrall - 1/6/2016 4:53 PM
Wisconsin is working on all of this stuff.
Yup, better late than never. |
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Location: oswego, il | Revoking fishing privileges needs to happen more often. |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | ToddM - 1/6/2016 6:21 PM
Revoking fishing privileges needs to happen more often.
Coupled with very hefty fines, especially for the overbaggers. |
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| Just because you CAN take your limit of whatever does not mean it's a good idea. I'm all for a few fish in the freezer, but what we usually do is just keep what the two of us can eat that night and that's it. More and more we've been forgoing the walleyes for a few dink pike. Lots of the lakes are overrun with them, and not much tastes better IMO. When we take crappies it's usually just one or two to go with an assortment of other pannies. And perch, which always seem to die no matter what you do... |
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Location: The desert | sworrall - 1/6/2016 4:08 PM
What's a 'bad' bag limit, and what corrections should be made to make it 'good'? Think that one out.
And I believe the concept was intended to mean 'Don't kill it unless your WOULD to eat it yourself'.
Compare to 'Don't kill it unless your going to eat it yourself'.
Big difference.
Every time someone uses the wrong "you're", I'm stealing a crappie of an elderly person's plate!
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Location: central Wisconsin | Don't get yore undies in a bunch Pointer. |
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Location: varies | Every time someone uses the wrong "you're", I'm stealing a crappie of an elderly person's plate!.......................................................................................^off...........
B- for not paying attention!
Edited by rodbender 1/6/2016 8:09 PM
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Location: The desert | rodbender - 1/6/2016 8:08 PM
Every time someone uses the wrong "you're", I'm stealing a crappie of an elderly person's plate!.......................................................................................^off...........
B- for not paying attention!
I hate autocorrect.
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