View Poll Results: Do you catch and realse or keep fish>?
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Strictly Catch and Realse
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22.09% |
Keep what you Catch
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C&R with the odd shore lunch.
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61.24% |
Dont Care.
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3.29% |
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08-28-2016, 07:53 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Alberta, Canada
Posts: 65
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim473
Over a $ 1000.00 spent for 2 meals of fish. Cheaper to just go to a very expensive resturant .
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08-28-2016, 07:57 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Alberta, Canada
Posts: 65
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Originally Posted by Landlocked_Newfie
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With the amount I spend on gear and travel for fishing, I could own an expensive restaurant let alone eat at one. I C&R 95% of the time.
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08-28-2016, 08:42 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 4,444
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Originally Posted by waterninja
I could not have said it better myself whip.
I foresee a very short life span for you here on AO. Party on.
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08-28-2016, 08:48 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 19
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Catch and Release them, I am still young and my dad doesn't want me to kill them due to religious reasons, but I guess when I get a bit older around 17-18 I would try to catch one and eat it at home, maybe make some fish curry.
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08-28-2016, 10:41 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: edmonton
Posts: 11,434
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Originally Posted by Marmite
Catch and Release them, I am still young and my dad doesn't want me to kill them due to religious reasons, but I guess when I get a bit older around 17-18 I would try to catch one and eat it at home, maybe make some fish curry.
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Out of curiosity, and because you brought religion into this thread, what religion does not allow you to kill and eat a fish? Fish curry you say?
This thread was dead for more then 5 years, but I see it has been trolled back to life.
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08-28-2016, 12:59 PM
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Outside of Onoway
Posts: 821
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Always catch&release stream fishing. Always. When I am at the in laws on lesser slave I will sometimes keep the allowed walleye. The vast majority of my fishing is c&r.
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08-28-2016, 09:15 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 19
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Quote:
Originally Posted by waterninja
Out of curiosity, and because you brought religion into this thread, what religion does not allow you to kill and eat a fish? Fish curry you say?
This thread was dead for more then 5 years, but I see it has been trolled back to life.
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Wait, 5 years? I am new to this forum, well I am a Sikh I guess, but I don't want bring out religion, I don't know why I brought it, I mean you can eat fish and others meat like I do. Just that we can't harm animals like that, but when I get older and get a hang with fishing I want to cook homemade fish.
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08-28-2016, 11:12 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Calgary
Posts: 823
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I would never keep a trophy, just photos and memories.
I want those big ladies to reproduce as much as possible!
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08-28-2016, 11:49 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: BC/Alberta
Posts: 2,028
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08-29-2016, 12:01 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 469
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I'll bonk a white fish in the winter and a laker annnnd a perch annnnnd a walleye if I have tags. 😜
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08-29-2016, 11:44 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2016
Posts: 41
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Catch and release only. For one I don't like fish, and two most the streams I fish are designated catch and release only.
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08-30-2016, 05:08 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: pigeon lake
Posts: 1,578
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having lake trout for supper tonight, most waters fished are catch and release 99% of fish released.
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08-30-2016, 05:42 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Red Deer
Posts: 2,387
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Quote:
Originally Posted by masonjames
Catch and release only. For one I don't like fish, and two most the streams I fish are designated catch and release only.
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X2 - word for word
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10-08-2016, 09:08 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2015
Posts: 20
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I love to eat fish so I keep a lot of what I catch, leaving good spawners.
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10-08-2016, 10:10 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 1,482
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Marmite
Wait, 5 years? I am new to this forum, well I am a Sikh I guess, but I don't want bring out religion, I don't know why I brought it, I mean you can eat fish and others meat like I do. Just that we can't harm animals like that, but when I get older and get a hang with fishing I want to cook homemade fish.
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Sat Shri akaal yaar. Machi bohat swatha ah he, hunna? Very respectable to respect that you do what you do. Fish you catch and cook is great, I've had a rainbow trout made into fish pakoras and it was so good. But there is absolutely nothing wrong with C&R (I usually release, only keep fish maybe 2/50 trips per year). Keep doing your own thing
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10-08-2016, 12:14 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 730
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Originally Posted by sheephunter
I think you are missing my point. As an angler I agree with everything you say but how do you sell the self gratifying torture of fish to a non-angler? We hunt for a lot of personal reasons but the day we stop eating meat is the day hunting disappears. The same can be said of fish. We fish to eat is pretty easy to justify. We fish because it gives us pleasure even those it causes fish stress and mortality is not so easy to justify. Don't get me wrong, I totally appreciate what C&R means but at the end of the day, C&R would not exist if it were not for the guys that love to eat fish. The fish killers are critical to the future of fishing in modern society. They definitely aren't the bad guys.
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My underlining in the above quote
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10-08-2016, 05:47 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 1,920
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I keep what i catch if legal size It’s my right as a license holder
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10-09-2016, 07:25 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Calgary, AB
Posts: 2,146
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Catch and release 100% in Alberta as there it too much pressure already.
In BC I may eat one or two a year; less than 1%.....MAYBE.
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10-09-2016, 08:30 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: southern alberta
Posts: 2,246
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100% C&R on streams and will keep a meal worth when i go ice fishing
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03-26-2017, 05:06 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 23
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Both
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03-26-2017, 05:20 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: My House
Posts: 13,471
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I keep whatever I can cuz in Alberta that ain't much
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03-26-2017, 08:07 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Southern Alberta
Posts: 7,350
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Just a heads up, 6 year old post.
Not that it matters.
Read through the first page before I noticed.
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03-26-2017, 08:16 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 553
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I throw back more than I ever keep. Some species I don't retain any some I often retain a few. Being a bachelor I don't need alot for a meal and I much prefer fresh caught over frozen so I tend to keep a smaller fish now and again. Last year I kept 3 small walleye about 1 pound apiece. I only fished twice and the first evening caught 5 and released them all. The next evening I caught three of the size I like best for eating so I kept all three. I don't think I made a noticeable dent in the population!
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03-27-2017, 03:38 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 33
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I catch and release, unless the fish is harmed and won't survive a release. For lakes with stocked fish, I keep 1 or 2.
C&R is important, but it's nice to enjoy a tasty trout once in a while .
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03-27-2017, 04:05 PM
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Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 381
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I always practice CPR -Catch, Picture, Release. That is of course if the catch is even worthy of pulling the camera out. Generally speaking I throw em all back as quickly as possible. If I happen to be with a group who really wants to eat some fresh caught fish, I will oblige but only within slot limit size and knowing that there are thousands of fish in that size range in that water body. It is my opinion, and it is only my opinion that the truly great, genetically gifted fish should be left alone as to help populate the lake with other genetically superior fish - as all the big big fish are females and perfect spawners. It always seems like a real shame to me when I see those big hogs being kept. Truth is they don't even taste as good as the smallies. So when I see that, I won't lie, I get a little ****ed off.
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03-28-2017, 06:59 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2016
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I always keep my limit , why fish ,if your going to throw them back , l love fish , that's why l go.
Fish kissers spread disease.
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03-28-2017, 08:27 AM
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Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 381
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bigskinner
I always keep my limit , why fish ,if your going to throw them back , l love fish , that's why l go.
Fish kissers spread disease.
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For sport.
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03-28-2017, 09:38 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Ft. McMurray
Posts: 38,586
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I catch my limit but limit my catch
I don't always bring fish home unles I intend to eat them within the next few days
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03-28-2017, 10:03 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 11,858
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I don't think anyone can logically argue that retaining fish from a healthy lake/river where the population is stable (and capable of supporting some retention) is wrong/unethical.
I have no issue keeping/eating fish in these cases, and it's maybe a few trips a year at most.
For most of the waters I fish, and the overwhelming majority of the fish I catch, go right back in the water. Unfortunately, in Alberta, that lines up with the pressure our waters face here. We simply can't keep our limits every time we go out (even if the regulations allow us to do so).
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03-28-2017, 11:40 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Southern Alberta
Posts: 7,350
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Originally Posted by EZM
I don't think anyone can logically argue that retaining fish from a healthy lake/river where the population is stable (and capable of supporting some retention) is wrong/unethical.
I have no issue keeping/eating fish in these cases, and it's maybe a few trips a year at most.
For most of the waters I fish, and the overwhelming majority of the fish I catch, go right back in the water. Unfortunately, in Alberta, that lines up with the pressure our waters face here. We simply can't keep our limits every time we go out (even if the regulations allow us to do so).
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I agree.
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