Catch and release...who needs it?

[Mitch24]

Found this picture while doing some surfing.

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=h ... n%26sa%3DN

Found it quite interesting.

[almontefisher]

Did you see the other photos on there and the dates of them...they caught all those days after each other all summer...That would be more than 500 fish per week this guy was keeping for his charters

So he will be out of a job pretty soon I would think as there will be no more fish around

[cprince]

Is 50 the limit in TX?

[wolfe]

Seems it's just for bragging rights (the picture). I sure hope he doesn't consistently do this, but he mentions reaching his limit quickly and then switching species, so....

I find the picture distasteful, but then that's just my opinion.

W.

[cprince]

Doesn't it remind you of the old pictures of safaris in the 1930s with bunches of dead gorillas, lions, rhinos and elephants laying around the proud white hunters?

I do know that there are some species that do not have any legal limits to the number one can catch.

[Rhy]

Seems it's just for bragging rights (the picture). I sure hope he doesn't consistently do this, but he mentions reaching his limit quickly and then switching species, so....

I find the picture distasteful, but then that's just my opinion.

W.

I find this picture distasteful also

i hate keeping anything, and if i do want a feed, I usually try to catch a combination of catfish, sunfish, perch and rockbass. The lake I fish in is spring feed and stays relatively cool so these fish are always ok to eat.

I especially dislike keeping sport fish, I read somewhere that it takes a bass many years in canada to reach 3 pounds.

[Mitch24]

Doesn't it remind you of the old pictures of safaris in the 1930s with bunches of dead gorillas, lions, rhinos and elephants laying around the proud white hunters?

It does. In a way this picture is a look back into the past, where fisherman would catch and keep this many (and more) fish in a day. Something like this:

http://209.161.6.181/ebayimages/osp/Fis ... o_Way1.jpg

[Joisey Joe]

Funny how times change, when my dad and his "Knights Of The St. Lawrence" went pike fishing in the sixties the pix were full of pike on stringers. I can say they were eaten cause I was one of the eaters, LOL! There really was no c&r back then, at least now we know betta, or so I thought. Don't like to see that, the thrill is in the catching, not the keeping, how many can you eat? Let's hope it's the exception and not the rule, Joe.

[JRSuprstar]

I agree the pic is distasteful...C&R is the way to go...

JR

[HereMyGo]

I definitely agree.

I'll probably look at this picture later and e-mail him from my home e-mail address calling him a jackass.

I know this isn't the best course of action and nothing will be done about it, but it'll make me feel better calling him something. I'd really like it even more if he engaged me in a bit of an argument surrounding it.

[Geos]

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishboat/fish/recreational/lakes/texoma/

Current regulations for Lake Texoma

Fishing Regulations
Two-thirds of this lake lies in Oklahoma. Anglers with Texas licenses may fish in the Texas portions of the reservoir, or purchase a Lake Texoma license ($12) to fish the entire lake. The following length and bag limits apply to the entire lake:

For striped bass and hybrid striped bass, the daily bag limit is 10 fish in any combination. Possession limit is 20 fish. There is no minimum length, but only 2 fish 20" or longer can be retained each day. Culling is prohibited.
White bass have no minimum length limit and a daily bag of 25 fish.
For blue and channel catfish, minimum length is 12" and daily bag is 15 fish.
For flathead catfish, the minimum is 20" with a bag limit of 5/day.
Black and white crappie have a 10" minimum length and a combined daily bag of 37 fish. The possession limit is 50.
For walleye, minimum length is 18" and daily bag is 5 fish.

[Geos]

And that is alot of fish for one day.

[Geos]

And that is alot of fish for one day.

[Esox_Lucius]

There is something that strikes me as somewhat desquieting or even obscene about the photograph of all those Crappie with Mr. Parker and guest.
However, to play devil's advocate.
Is it possible that it's just one of, let's say, four people to catch crappie on his charter?
The reason I say that is because it could just be that there were several people in the boat catching crappie but each got there turn standing with the fish in a photo-op.
Or it's of a total catch for the day by 3 people on different lakes getting there photo taken with all the fish because, well, that's a lot more impressive isn't it?
This guy sounds like someone who loves fishing, so I'm finding it hard to believe right off that he'd, pretty much, shoot himself in the foot and kill his business by depleating the fish stocks in that fashion.
Well, just my nickels worth.
Any thoughts?

Esox

[Geos]

For one thing this guy should win any fish filleting contest.

Im not going to knock a guy for catching his legal limts.
Hes a guide and his goal is to take "customers" out to get there limits, no shame in that.

I want to know on how a lake that size can sustain such limits.
They need a hatchery just for bait fish.