Who keeps up with throwbacks?

**Dutch552** · 02-05-2019, 12:50 PM

I have two clickers in the boat. One for keepers by the livewell and one for total number of fish caught by the console. I do not regularly use the second clicker-mainly because I get distracted and forget to use it.

**perchjerker108** · 02-05-2019, 01:10 PM

Greenfish, I'm kinda like Pappy, I just keep a mental note of how many that I throw back if I'm keeping fish. Sometimes, I throw everything back. Since I fish for Panfish, it's probably not a big deal. I did fish a FINS lake near me last spring and this is the only time I kept count since I was frustrated on the size of Bluegill in the lake(my personal fish survey of the Bluegill size in the lake). I was trying to catch a mess of 10 decent Bluegill. Caught 95, only 8 were over 6". So, all went back. Not worth getting out the stuff to clean fish if I don't have at least 10 decent fish to clean.