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[in. pred]

any of you indiana guys fishaholics? thats what i am a fishaholic. id fish every day if i could when younger. you name it ill fish for it around northern IN. what stretches your line these days?

mostly i chase big crappie, bass, catfish, pike, walleye, perch, gills. suckers n carp are also past loves.

just trryin to liven up the Indiana section a lil.

 

[banderson7474]

any of you indiana guys fishaholics? thats what i am a fishaholic. id fish every day if i could when younger. you name it ill fish for it around northern IN. what stretches your line these days?

mostly i chase big crappie, bass, catfish, pike, walleye, perch, gills. suckers n carp are also past loves.

just trryin to liven up the Indiana section a lil.

I don't fish much but love to eat it. Help me with a debate I'm having with my wife. We are watching The Madison and the show has the 2 male characters fly fishing for trout but always catch and release.

I'm saying the norm would be to catch for eating and maybe if you have enough then you would start to catch and release. Am I wrong about this?

 

[yankee2bbq]

I remember going to Willow Slough in NW Indiana. And a few other man made ponds. Usually good size Blue Gills.

 

[Smoke-Chem BBQ]

I don't fish much but love to eat it. Help me with a debate I'm having with my wife. We are watching The Madison and the show has the 2 male characters fly fishing for trout but always catch and release.

I'm saying the norm would be to catch for eating and maybe if you have enough then you would start to catch and release. Am I wrong about this?

It depends. Some fishermen, in particular fly fishermen, practice catch-and-release exclusively. Here in Idaho, some streams are exclusively catch-and-release, while some species (cutthroat trout and bull trout come to mind) are catch and release in most of the state.

Personally, I've no problem respecting catch and release rules where they exist, but I usually fish elsewhere where I can keep what I catch.

 

[banderson7474]

I had no idea there were rivers that had a catch and release rule. wow learn something new every day.

I can understand having a limit b/c I would think most would like to eat what they catch but then again, I know zero about fly fishing so maybe it's just the fun in that.

 

[Timber II]

I catch and release……into the grease

 

[in. pred]

I don't fish much but love to eat it. Help me with a debate I'm having with my wife. We are watching The Madison and the show has the 2 male characters fly fishing for trout but always catch and release.

I'm saying the norm would be to catch for eating and maybe if you have enough then you would start to catch and release. Am I wrong about this?

no real norm to it. its up to fisherman, water, regs, type of fish thing.
i catch and release a couple thousand a year. i aalso eat more fish than an otter. lol i release fish because i dont need anymore. i fish for fun mostly. the food just pays for the gas. i kept track one summer and there had been around 2600 crappie caught in my boat. i bet only 500-700 of them were kept.

I had no idea there were rivers that had a catch and release rule. wow learn something new every day.

I can understand having a limit b/c I would think most would like to eat what they catch but then again, I know zero about fly fishing so maybe it's just the fun in that.

take a stroll through the Michigan regs book!!! its about the size phone books used to be. lol some crazy stuff in some of those stream regs.