I'm looking for any good quotes regarding C&R practice. Also any published stats. Regards, Rick
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Catch and Release quotes, stats, etc.
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Posts: 209 10/23/2009 23:25 |
I'm not sure what it is you're looking for, but here's what jumps to my mind. I read an article by Dave Whitlock last year and he had what I
thought was a good rule of thumb regarding how long is too long for a fish to be out of water - he suggested holding your breath starting when you take the
fish out of the water. This will give the fisherman an idea as to how long the fish can stay out of water. (Remember too that the fish was just struggling) I
have yet to actually do this, but since reading it, I am a lot more aware of how long the fish has been out.
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"Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once" - Lee Wulff
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Posts: 371 10/25/2009 08:56 |
I've always liked my own response to the curious looks and questions of the catch-and-kill crowd . . . "I'd rather catch them twice than eat them
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Posts: 889 10/25/2009 13:46 |
Hi Guys, I think there are areas where the fish are caught a lot of times per year. I believe 17 times per year on the S. Platte release only sections.
That's a lot, if I'm remembering correctly. I don't like to catch and release a lot of small fish in a day as they don't 'handle' very
well. I can't say I don't like to catch and release a lot of big fish. I try to leave them in the water as much as possible. I think there are
situations where the term 'torture and release' apply. The fish that 'made my Perfect sing' are creatures fighting for their lives. The
Puritans would have been appalled by catch and release as they were by sport fishing. 'Limit your catch don't catch your limit' works for me.
Jay Edwards
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Posts: 10 10/25/2009 22:13 |
Do more than what is required and less than what is allowed.
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Posts: 57 10/29/2009 20:24 |
"The fish you put back is your gift to another angler, and, who knows, it may have been another angler's gift to you." Lee Wulff.
This always reminds me of the quote from Rob Roy: "Honor is the gift a man gives himself", which may be more accurate for a lot of us. When folks ask me where my full stringer is, I say: "A live trout is prettier than a dead one." That seems to satisfy them. Jim |
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Posts: 308 11/03/2009 22:56 |
bluejayee wrote: This is the dark side of over-crowded fishing matched with catch and release. Don't get me wrong. There's almost nothing I like better than fishing. And catch and release is the only way to manage over-crowded waters. So I'm not arguing against. But still. Figures like that do make you pause and think about it all. I stopped guiding in 1993 or so. During the last 3 summers I worked full time (7 days a week all summer) I spent as many as 25 days a year on O'Hairs, DePuys and Nelson Spring Creek in Montana's Paradise valley. The rainbows cruise around in pods, changing location constantly. So you never get to know them as individuals. But the browns and the Cutthroats like to find their territory and hang on to it. I'd often (or my customers) would often catch the same brown trout a half a dozen times per summer. And the same cutthroat 4-5 times per week. And I was one of 30 or more full time guides regularly working the creeks. I have no idea how many times those cutts got caught. But it sure was a lot. Handling them carefully kept them alive, for the most part. But I do still find myself thinking a lot more fondly about truly wild fish. The rainbows got so schizophrenic I many times watched them refuse a natural mayfly. And yet they'd still congregate in the eddies behind your knees. They were afraid of the leaders and dragging flies. But they weren't smart enough to logically connect the leaders to the wading humans. Further up the creek, in the brushy spots the waders seldom got to, the fish were far more spooky about waders, and a lot less spooky about leaders. So the fish bowl fish down by the warming sheds and bank-side benches were not really a natural sport. I'm not sure what you'd call it. But natural wouldn't be the right adjective.
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