What do you do with your catch?

[junior1113]

Re: What do you do with your catch?

keep all keeper grouper the rest can live

 

[Starcraftguy1]

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when I get to San Diego or Rocky Point Mexico.after I have spent $500.00 I keep the fillets,freeze them have barbeques and enjoy it very much.

 

[freeisforme]

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I generally only keep fish of decent size, I'm not one to keep those that just make the limit. I'm not into fishing and coming back with a bucket full of tiny fish to filet for dinner and spend a half hour doing it. I'd rather have one or two nice size fish.

I must say though that I see more and more of what used to be trash fish being eaten these days. I was on a head boat last fall and one guy was keeping everything, not to mention cutting up tasting samples from his cooler. He also ate more bait than he used. He was mildly entertaining at first in that he was eating surf clams that were on deck for several hours and finally ate a few small sharks and cut up several bluefish for his own version of sushi right at the rail. I guess it's definitely an acquired taste. The entertaining part soon wore off after we all realized he really liked eating his catch raw.

 

[boat1010]

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When I tell the people at work I am going to the lake with the boat this week-end, they usually ask me if I fish? My usual response is YEP..... Fish in my cooler for another beer. I like the catch and release too!!!

 

[RickV1955]

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When I get back to Florida fishing.....
Intend to just keep a few fish for eating and release the rest.....

Although, I think the idea of sending the "rotting" fish to my Congressman (from the poll) might be the way to go...!! LOL.

In the past I've done mostly freshwater fishing up here in New England.....trout and bass. Almost always catch and release.

With salt water (stripers in particular), we do often keep fish for dinner......yum!!!

Rick

 

[puddle jumper]

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We like to keep only what we plan to eat up quickly. Hear most fish are plenty full and taste so much better fresh. I don't see the need to deplete the stocks just for bragging rights.

 

[matthewp]

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The only fish that I keep is tuna - and then it never more than two or three each season. Everything else, I send them back to the blue to think about what they've done.

 

[fishinhardwater]

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i take Summer Flounder (Fluke), Tautog (Blackfish), and Striped Bass (Stripers, Bass, [Rockfish for you southern boys ])


when i freshwater fish, i release everything

 

[Huron Angler]

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Keep, eat and freeze. We usually have two or three big Fish fries in the winter and have a crowd to help devour them. I ususally cook about 100 Gills for those fish fries. Feed about ten people. 100 gills, fried taters and hush puppies keeps everyone smiling.

You are making me awfully hungry for a fish fry! Glad to hear others here in Michigan are enjoying some fried 'gills. Good luck stocking the freezer this summer.

 

[AluminumFalcon]

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I keep the keepers..

 

[Sharkfighter]

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I normally throw it back in the water since it is probably undersized, out of season or a trash fish.

Actually I rarely keep em cause I HATE cleaning them. After a day fishing all I want to do is sleep and then clean boat the next day.

I am salt water fishing and like others said I will keep larger fish such as grouper, snapper, etc. However most of the Red Snapper I been catching are 17-19 inches with 20 being legal. They are about to start a closed season here in GA for them and I am sure then i will catch 20+ in on every drop.

Large black sea bass are very tasty and I will give half a cooler to anyone that ones to clean my share lol.

In GA i fish all year long three or four times a month. I probably am keeping fish on about a 1/4 of my trips although I almost always catch more then a few legal ones.

I have been with guys who will load the cooler with 30 or 40 fish on a trip to include species i only think of as bait such as ringtail porgy and ruby redlips.

But for what I pay for gas, bait, boat maintenance costs, tackle etc if i fished for a food source instead of enjoyment of fishing it would be an expensive proposition unless i wanted to live on Fried Fish.



Rob

 

[phishinout]

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I love to eat fresh fish from the rivers and sounds of eastern North Carolina. I ususally keep enough fish to treat my girlfriend, parents and grandparents.

 

[wideide]

Re: What do you do with your catch?

when we fish the lake we let them go dont care for the flavor of lake fish but when we fish salt we keep eveything eatable salmon, lingcod, seabass, halabut, tuna, wahoo, mahi mahi all good eaten

 

[wil7483]

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I practise "catch and release" into a large pan of hot grease. My brother used to call it "fish hell".

 

[CheapboatKev]

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I practise "catch and release" into a large pan of hot grease. My brother used to call it "fish hell".

lol...

Gets to a point where just pulling a salt water bass onto my skiff was enough to make my mouth water..Tuna? oh man..was already on the grill in my mind..

Heck..I've eaten a slice of raw tuna while watching the very tuna smack all over the deck...

I used to say "Catch & EAT" and any left overs were "catch & reheat"

 

[triumphrick]

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lol...

Gets to a point where just pulling a salt water bass onto my skiff was enough to make my mouth water..Tuna? oh man..was already on the grill in my mind..

Heck..I've eaten a slice of raw tuna while watching the very tuna smack all over the deck...

I used to say "Catch & EAT" and any left overs were "catch & reheat"

That's funny...looks like someone needs a little more sleep....LOL.....
How are ya, bro..gettin closer to launch??

 

[NESTOR BENALCAZAR]

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I really don't know, I am still in the "trying to catch" part of the deal.

 

[frankie g]

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[P 0 P E Y E]

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I like to let them go.

If the hook sets bad for the fish, that makes em a keeper for eating.

There was this one time when the snapper blues were running and I had the kids on the boat. One of the kids was from a different country and never fished before and barely spoke English. I can't remember which hemisphere or what language this kid spoke but he sure did love the fish we caught.

We were on my Trojan 26 and provisions for cooking were limited. I had a box of triscuit crackers, a little olive oil and one onion.

I snapped the heads of the fish, gutted them and pressed a bunch of crackers on them and fried the mess of them up in the frying pan with the sliced onion and a splash of olive oil.

Our guest proceeded to eat the bulk of the fish I cooked and the other kids just smiled...But the fish was taste

The fish took on a golden brown, toasted

 

[CheapboatKev]

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freekin love it!