Catch and Release

If you don't have any thing more serious to worry about than someone keeping a few trout your a lucky man.

How many times does this come up? Certainly every trout season and time and again it is explained that the stocked trout are a put and take situation.

So the guy took his limit! He took them home and ate them I would hope. I took a large one home from a stocked creek the other day....ate it.... but returned about 10 others. However as the water warms I will keep more if I catch them.... with the knowledge that otherwise they will mostly die off by July....

What annoys me more is the dead trout lying in the streams from rough catch and release treatment....now THERE is the true waste....

Im all for catch n release.I only use lures for trout and ive caught 195 sence october and havent had to keep any.My goal every year is to not keep any.

nice trout and i release 99 percent of the fish i catch every year and all my trout i dont eat them but when i do keep some no shame in my game mother nature is delish

ORIGINAL: SevenMileShowcase

Does anybody ever practice catch and release anymore? It is so annoying watching somebody catch a beautiful and then proceed to put it in an old sock?? Seriously I fished today and caught 56 with a friend. Some guy tried to show us up by showing this stringer he had caught in 15 minutes. Unbelievable, it is so upsetting

Is this just your way of trying to impress us by you catching 56 of the stupidest, and easiest fish to catch? If thats the case, congratulations 56 is a lot of fish, wish i could do that.

ORIGINAL: spoonchucker

You, and your friend caught 56? So, how were the 5 the other guy kept a problem?

 

Nice fish. Glad to see the stream is back to being fishable!!

ORIGINAL: fisherofmen376

It is not upsetting to me in the least when people catch some fish, keep some fish, and eat some fish. This is one of the most natural things in the world to do. As long as you dont waste the fish, there is absolutely nothing wrong with occasionally keeping some to eat. I caught a 21 inch, 5 pound stocked rainbow saturday in a local creek. Sunday for lunch it along with a few smaller ones fed 5 of us. Delicious fresh fish, seasoned, breaded and fried. I dont do that all the time, but when i do i feel no shame in feeding myself and family. Below was the big keeper:

ORIGINAL: mohawksyd

Cue the dead horse...

I kind of like this one.. what do you think?

Lighten up francis they are just stocked  invasive species(at least in Penna) although, you might consider putting back the natives. I have have a funny feeling I have read this exact post once or twice before over the years. This is a very insteresting read tangently related
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I think that some of you don't get the idea of C&R. My take on it is that by throwing some back you give someone else the pleasure of catching that fish again a lot of the time.I have caught many fish,not just Trout, that had a cut line in thier mouth.If the first guy that caught it kept it ,then I wouldn't have & by me throwing it back,someone else had a chance to catch it later.It is not true that Trout don't overwinter around here especialy in some of our lakes. I have seen Trout caught in Twin Lakes that were tagged 4 years prior.I realy don't understand why the supposed bias on 'non-native fish' what is that all about? I do not have a problem with people keeping a few fish to eat, I do have a problem with the morons that brag about having a freezer full of fish at home while they drag along some washed out fish that even a cat wouldn't eat. As far as feeding your family with your catch, I am sure that most of us would be better off saving our money that we spend on licenses & gear & go to the local store to buy food.As far as a htrown back fish dying, I gaurante you that it has a better chance of living than the ones that go home with you. As far as beating a dead horse,remember that there are new members that may not of heard this arguement before,don't they have a right to express thier opinion? You don't have to read them. sam

the state needs to take money from trout stamps, provide legit places for trout to lay redds, open up cold water releases, and re-plant a tree base along the streams the forestry industry wiped out in the early 20th century.  Maybe, just maybe, we could then start stocking finglerings in places that hold decent temps year round.  Within ten years, we would have many more class a fisheries.  The streams that wouldn't hold trout could then be reopened for the idiots that want to sling bait to fish that theoretically are not to be consumed by more than 1-2 per year.

ORIGINAL: LakeErieMonster

the state needs to take money from trout stamps, provide legit places for trout to lay redds, open up cold water releases, and re-plant a tree base along the streams the forestry industry wiped out in the early 20th century.  Maybe, just maybe, we could then start stocking finglerings in places that hold decent temps year round.  Within ten years, we would have many more class a fisheries.  The streams that wouldn't hold trout could then be reopened for the idiots that want to sling bait to fish that theoretically are not to be consumed by more than 1-2 per year.

Yep, just plant some trees and problem solved.  Those new trees oughta clear up all the AMD, mercury, and PCBs as well.

Not that it matters, but the statewide advisory on stocked trout consumption is one meal per week....

A breeder? I have been told so often that stocked trout do not, or rarely breed?!

If that is not the case then I would not keep such a fish....

I happen to like consuming trout....because I LIKE oily fish with some taste....and omega 3s. I will keep a "stocked", "put and take" fish like the one above in preference to paying $11 a pound for a 7 incher with dried sunken eyes at Giant Eagle!!!!....

ORIGINAL: SevenMileShowcase

Tull, agree 100% this winter I went to the exact stream where I caught 56 and caught 32 holdovers. All brown trout. And the big rainbow above, that fish doesnt deserve to be eaten, let a kid catch it and enjoy it. Thats a breeder, a true spectacular fish

Ya that's a breeder from a hathchery and stocked trout reproduce in the right conditions. That's called a brood stock trout and that fish is surviving if you know how to release and paly it right I haven't killed a fish in two years. I ain't ever heard of a fish dying from stress.