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Thread: Do you want this?

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    This is about a post I made on the main fishing side -
    It came up about the ethics of keeping more than you
    can eat or use. Just wondered if this has ever happened
    to any of you - The end of more than one fishing partner
    arrangement with me has been over this. I catch a fish,
    and ask my partner, "Do you want this? I am NOT going to
    clean it" Usually it is a cat or bass, but has been other things.
    Partner says, "YES, don't throw it back" Then when the end of the
    day comes, they are too lazy to clean it and start trying to give it
    away at the boat ramp... or tell me I can have it, some lame excuse
    like "It's not enough to bother cleaning" I will clean it, but
    probably not invite them again... On this topic, I once had an elderly
    gent ask me for a mess of catfish, so I went and laid about 40lbs on him,
    he sold them to all his neighbors that didn't bother me, free enterprise
    at work. Just glad I didn't volunteer to clean 'em, I almost did.
    Also, I used to run into a man, retired, only knew him as "Doc",
    but he was a bream fisherman of the highest order... He fished for them
    all seasons, and was extremely good at it. He cleaned and gave most
    all of the fish away, a lot to a orphanage. He always said, never throw
    a bream back, overpopulation is their worst enemy. He did his part to
    help :D A great guy, he loved to tease me about my gps - asked "is that
    thing gonna tell you where they are?" No sir, just where they were last
    weekend! He would nearly get down and roll telling about this bass
    fisherman he watched one day, sight-fishing and stalking for hours-
    Doc fished alot out of a belly-boat tube- the guy got within talking
    distance of him, and he told him "Yes sir, those grass carp are hard to
    catch on a artificial" Said the guy trolled up a little closer to the fish he'd
    been stalking, knelt down and squinted, and then flew mad, 'bout turned
    Doc and his belly-boat over with his wake when he left...
    Last edited by J White; 08-09-2005 at 08:08 AM.
    Shoals Area Crappie Association

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