06-06-2004, 08:22 PM
[cool] No problem, Dave. It doesn't take much to get me going on this topic.[blush] I fish waters that are strictly catch & release (or private, in some cases, with little or no harvest) and heavily fished public waters with the standard limits. There is no comparison in the quality of the fisheries. The catch & release and private waters are without exception far superior to the others in the number of quality game fish available. That is true both for the warm water fisheries and the cold water fisheries.
Do we want to catch and release a lot of really nice fish or catch and kill far fewer, much smaller fish??? It's a no-brainer as far as I'm concerned.
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Do we want to catch and release a lot of really nice fish or catch and kill far fewer, much smaller fish??? It's a no-brainer as far as I'm concerned.
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