Where to take and where not to take

[Member]

Long and short i sell a few bass lures, One customer insists on taking at least 2 bass everytime they are out fishing wich is quite often and i dont have a problem with this in dams but creeks ?

My question is how can you convince someone that one every once in a while is ok but to enjoy them as a sportfish then release to let others enjoy aswell ?

I get the stocked for taking and what they are doing isnt illiegle by any means but how long will it take for a few people to thin out the bigger fish in a small creek that gets fished HARD

Fishing for the future right ?

[Member]

It depends where he's taking them from.  Chances are they're stocked fish, and there are no genetic tests done on them.  They could be doing more harm than good in the rivers.

[Member]

Are you reffering to the bass or the taking of them "doing more harm than good" ?

Its a creek coverd by LAFMA

Not sure the bass have been looked into that much here but all the stocked ones used to come from Bill or Matt i believe

[Member]

Can of worms Steve. Legal to take your possession limit and everyone has their own views which vary widely.

[Member]

Introduce them to Pizza

they will never eat one again

[Member]

My old man used to insist on killing fish every trip I took him on.  In short I stopped taking him..... I did take him out to Wivenhoe once just before he died. He got a 50+ bass and cut its throat straight away, some never learn. It's not a problem now, he's dead. Problem solved...

[Member]

Hell phitz....

Mind you my grandfather that just passed was the same.

Yep to both Steve's opend a can of worms on a pizza i did

All a matter of opinion and generation i spose

[Member]

It's an interesting question. I guess for many of us there are certain species we see as no take and others we see as food fish. For me Bass are in the first category for a couple of reasons. Most of the places I used to fish for bass were small creeks(was never really that keen on impoundment bass)) and were all wild fish. I always knew that these creeks could be suceptible to overfishing. The other is that I just don't eat freshwater fish(lets face it they taste like cr@p compared to saltwater species). It is legal though so you can't have tooo much of a go at those that choose to take them. Up here in FNQ I am always VERY VERY careful of who I tell about JP fishing as there are still plenty of yokels that will happily kill them for a feed. The fact is there are still plenty of people around that only see fishing as a means of getting a feed. In most ways there is nothing wrong with this it is just up to us to try and educate those people about which species are the right ones to see in this way. The other side of it is that some people just don't give a s#@t ad will kill everything they see. These people probably need the same treatment.

[Member]

Some food for thought.....

Just resently I met a nice bloke fishing one of the local dams, he had a nice boat and we noticed he had been had been fishing for there the last couple of days and we got chatting to him at the ramp, he came from out west a little ways and like to fish here because he could catch a few fish, when we asked him about about a couple of other dams out his way he replied "the local boys frown on ya if you take a feed of fish" ........ so if you chase this guy off you will only move the problem onto someone else. It is why Leslie dam is so popular you can catch a feed of fish and no-one worries about it.

[Member]

I dont understand eating Bass at all, they taste like dirt

[Member]

Rarely get up your way Steve, but I would have no hesitation removing any Bass caught in known Mary habitat. Definitely falls into the more harm than good category.

[Member]

Two sides to every coin I suppose.

[Member]

You dont, you support this right to fish legally.

Otherwise one day some one will berate you for fishing legally because they are just a shade or two greener than you are.

[Member]

You dont, you support this right to fish legally.

Otherwise one day some one will berate you for fishing legally because they are just a shade or two greener than you are.

The right to fish legally was not the question it was more where is the line come abusing the privaledge

[Member]

The right to fish legally was not the question it was more where is the line come abusing the privaledge

Agree mate....  I'm all for sticking up for those who abide by the laws, and if that isn't good enough I'll lobby to have the laws changed.
I set a few standards when fishing in my boat, hence my comments re the old man further up. Don't care what others do but if I took someone to a creek & they start killing native fish, they never get an invite again, no matter what the law says.

A couple of lure sales aint worth a compromised conscience mate...