I copied this from the Fishing Reports page

I agree with both of these opinions that were well written on the Fishing Reports page.

What about you?



Location: NONE
Water Conditions: N/A
Posted By: "LTMEDICANGLER"
9/8/2011 7:41:31 PM Report ID: 26021


Report: I would like to 2nd the voice of "the_swing". I am an avid sportsman and I have children and grandchildren of my own. My father taught me the practice of ethical fishing and I have taught my family the same. I hope that this is past down from generation to generation. If we want to keep "our" fisheries , we all need to practice some catch and release. I take a camera and preserve my catch via photo. I know that some are fishing to eat. I too have been hungry. If you need fish that badly, than by all means take them and eat them. Lots of other anglers fish for the sport of fishing. Use a camera and preserve our right of passage for generations to come. Good luck to all in this upcoming season.






Date Fished: 9/8/11
Location: erie
Water Conditions: almost there
Posted By: "the_swing"
9/8/2011 4:08:02 PM Report ID: 26020


Report: With so much great fishing to come, and hardly any reports posted about steelhead fishing, i must include my personal opinion to the others that follow this site. We all know that the last few years of tributary fishing has been decent, but not like we have seen it in the past. All i want to add here is that more anglers should practice catch and release. people having 2 strung fish all the time, while catching more and replacing them on the stringer is outrageous, and frankly insulting to most anglers. I will keep a fish from time to time and have no problem with this.( they are decent eating. ) But this is for the anglers that keep everything everytime they go. We dont go fishing because we are starving, we go for the hunt. remember your first time catching a steelhead? as fisherman, we are conservationists. lets keep this tradition rich and plentiful for years to come. throw one back more often than keeping it! Tight Lines!

I think the one point that was being made was the fact that anglers fishing with 2 fish roped and catching the 3rd and releasing it and then a 4th and 5th and so on without roping the 3rd fish is selfish.

However that is their right to do so. I dont believe there is such law stating you catch 3 fish and rope them your done. They catch 2 and rope em and keep catching more and releasing them. Its their option to do so. That may be selfish in some minds. I may not like it either but if they want to stay and fish then thats what their going to do.

Agree with split shot. Good point

"i do think that swapping a fish off a stringer is wrong and should be illegal"

Culling fish IS illegal, with the excepetion of organized Bass tournaments.
That said, in over 20 years on the tribs ( 3-5 days a week at one time ) I have not ONCE, EVER witnessed anyone cull fish. I really doubt it's a major issue.

http://www.fishandboat.com/images/pages/qa/fish_regs/culling.htm

If you make a 2-3 hour drive, and catch three in the first hour or so you aren't going to want to leave either.  I only get up once or twice a year, so telling me i have to leave after three fish is bull crap.  As long as the person isn't killing fish he is putting back its not a big deal.

ORIGINAL: genieman77

I don't understand what the difference is in C&Ring fish after fish all day or  keeping two on a stringer and continuing to C&R  til you're ready to roll out, then stringin' up the last of day

the only difference is, one angler has two tethered while rippin' lips and one don't


..l.T.A.

This.

Within the limits of the law (in this case being 'once you rope him, gut hook him, or fail to get him right back into the water healthy in any way...he's yours')...within the limits of the law, I don't care how anyone fishes, nor would I appreciate them trying to tell me how to fish.

ORIGINAL: Cold

ORIGINAL: genieman77

I don't understand what the difference is in C&Ring fish after fish all day or  keeping two on a stringer and continuing to C&R  til you're ready to roll out, then stringin' up the last of day

the only difference is, one angler has two tethered while rippin' lips and one don't


..l.T.A.

This.

Within the limits of the law (in this case being 'once you rope him, gut hook him, or fail to get him right back into the water healthy in any way...he's yours')...within the limits of the law, I don't care how anyone fishes, nor would I appreciate them trying to tell me how to fish.

yea, I can dig it
But I reckon that applies to the C&R duuds too.
In this warm water , and many duuds over playing fish, then  add a pic or two as the da boyz hi-five their troutgawdness ... more than a few are  swimming away sideways ..in essence , they're the walking dEd ..BUT..the fish swam away

I'd be pretty tough for any fishcOp to put the pinch on anyone .
regardless whether  the batter had two strikes on him or not


..L.T.A.

I have witnessed people taking three fish to their vehicle, then returning for more. I have also called the WCO's and turned these violators in. The officers actually responded twice, and to my knowledge, they cited three "fishermen" for possessing over the limit. The violators were not "Russians", and I don't think that they were starving. One of the groups had New York plates, a father with 4 teen agers. They were actually keeping foul hooked fish from Walnut during a pretty heavy run of fish. I hope that they paid dearly for this. Make the call, turn them in if you see obvious violations.

  tHAT AINT nothin', back in the 70's I gotz 3 fines at wonce from a fish fuzz up there.
NevEr did send 'em any dough though.

crappy

Somedays I'm strickly C&R while other days I want to take a few fish home to can. If I decide to keep a few fish I will gill and ice two of them and continue fishing while practicing C&R until I'm ready to leave for the day. On occasion I find myself having released my third fish and only leave with two, but that's OK. I personally don't like to rope the third one and keep fishing, even though it's legal because I might be tempted to keep that fourth one if I hook it bad. Just my way of fishing.

Just my nickles worth.

+1 wally cat. I'll usually take my first 2 decent fish back to the cooler. And only keep one more that day. I don't like to fish w 3 on a stringer.

ORIGINAL: ShutUpNFish

Spoiled attitudes have been developed through fishing these waters and when years arrise when a fishing challenge comes to hand, spoiled brats bich.

Agree x1298712937123

We still either need this thread or a new one to discuss natural reproduction in the tribs, and then the fifth and final sign of the prophecy will be in place to trigger 'The Run'.

"...opinions that were well written on the Fishing Reports page."
 
I was under the impression that fishing reports belonged on the REPORTS page.  If someone wishes to to preach about their moral philosophy,  there is a place for that - namely  the FORUMS!  So it was a BS report through and through and I do not agree with it at all!