If you having a good day on the water and already have plenty of fish, or the bite is good enough that you will catch plenty of eating size fish, please consider releasing your big trout. It differs among my friends but 22"-23" is as big as we keep. Research shows that anything that length or larger are female fish possibly 8-10 years old. Keep what you want but please consider C&R on those big girls when your having a good day.
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Originally posted by Rack Ranch View PostIf you having a good day on the water and already have plenty of fish, or the bite is good enough that you will catch plenty of eating size fish, please consider releasing your big trout. It differs among my friends but 22"-23" is as big as we keep. Research shows that anything that length or larger are female fish possibly 8-10 years old. Keep what you want but please consider C&R on those big girls when your having a good day.
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Originally posted by Rack Ranch View PostIf you having a good day on the water and already have plenty of fish, or the bite is good enough that you will catch plenty of eating size fish, please consider releasing your big trout. It differs among my friends but 22"-23" is as big as we keep. Research shows that anything that length or larger are female fish possibly 8-10 years old. Keep what you want but please consider C&R on those big girls when your having a good day.
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The 18-24" are the fish that carry the population. There are for more fish in that size range than a 25+". The only benefit to releasing a big girl is so someone else has a chance at her. Croaker guides are the ones that are killing the majority of big fish. I throw them back over 25", but it's legal to keep them so I don't get too upset about it.
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I keep the legal limit on the first legal fish I catch, but I usually only get to go once or twice a year so I am sure that I am not hurting the population of big fish. Heck I am lucky if I catch one over 24". If I fished all the time, releasing the bigger fish would be no issue for me but my goal when I get to go is to limit out and put fish in my freezer.
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I've killed a few, and released a few. I think there are a lot more "big trout" than most people believe. I tend to go by whatever the boat owner wants to do.
I don't have a problem with anyone killing a legal fish, or releasing a legal fish, but I do hate it when the holier than thou types act like you killed an infant for eating a thirty inch trout.
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