Do you let her swim another day
 

Just out of curiosity, whats the max size trout, not one going on the wall would you keep? Had a guy tell me I was crazy for letting a 6lb trout go to fight another day.....just curious.

I let go 90% of my trout over 4lbs go...unless its really hooked bad or hurt.....I like 12inch keepers....

25 inches or bigger gets released.

I have let 2 fish over 8 go, with the thinking I would one day catch a 9 lber. Needless to say, I still have nothing on my wall.

well, given that my biggest ever was like 19-20 inches, i got alot of "catching" up to do...lol

my dad would never let me throw a trout back...... but I'd probably throw 6lbers and up back. 4lbers staying in the boat W sorry lol

I don't even know if I want to mount a trout so I'd probably throw an 8lb back as long as I get a pic.

For bass I throw everything back when i fish by myself, but I don't let anyone keep a fish over 4lbs unless they are mounting it.

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super nice avator

Throw 5 + back unless hooked deep. Never plan on mounting a trout, so even 8's are turned loose.

would keep an 8 and above to mount trout wise. send the rest packin.

I will let anything go 4.5-7.5, 7.5+ is coming home for the wall. My cousin caught a 7 last year with me. Biggest trout he ever caught (biggest before that was like 3lbs). I told him if you are gonna mount him, keep it, if not, let it go. Of course he says he's mounting it and it is almost exactly a year later and it is still in his freezer. :pissed:

If I finally catch one 8 or better it probably wont make it back in the water. I will probably pass out and drop it on the floor where it will die .

When it comes to women I let the BIG GIRLS go....done mounted a few too many of those in da past :rotfl:

I just have no desire to put a knife or mount anything like that.........
a replica I have done on a bass, (it's in Surperior Tackle in BTR now)

I really only keep what I can eat in two may three meals..........
But dat's just me, I hate cleaning fish!! LOL

Personally I regret releasing the two 8+ trout. I am starting to think I will never top that. Crazy thing I caught both of them the same day!

I am starting to let anything go over 4. I have caught several between 6-6.5 and struggle to break that mark, but anything 8+ is going on my wall...

7.5+ Im mounting... anything less im eating:cool:

I keep em all. Dey all get filleted the only regret I have is eatin my 9.5. Wish she was on the wall.

you ate a 9.5??? have you gone mental? story please...

pretty much anything 4+. I'd probably keep a 9+ if I was entering the STAR, though ;)

Im with Top Dawg on this. I dont see the big deal you guys have with keepin the big'uns. I would have kept all of the ones that you guys mentioned letting go. I have no desire to mount one either. Thats just me.

4 + goes back to produce more eggs.

To each his own but the main reason I would think to release a bigun is to give it a chance to get even bigger...maybe grow to be a record or samtin...u can catch plenty of smaller ones to eat

Each to their own you caught it, if yiur always catchn Big hawgs every trip tell me what your boat looks like so I can potlick ya...lol..got plenty in the fridge and not a 30" yet.

4+ I let go, mainly due to the fact I prefer 12inch trout to eat. No point in keeping a 4+ unless she swallowed it deep.

If its made it that far to get to the 4 pound range, why not let it go. It survived every tom **** and harry pilgrim trying to get it to eat there dead skrimp.


my point of view.

I'm far from catchin hawgs every trip.....biggest so far was a 6....but ya more than welcome to come potlick can't promise you i'll be of any help! haha...red and white ranger

Potlik stulb he always slangs da big ones.

thats exactly how i think! Don't really care to eat them and hate cleaning them! And if it was up to me every fish would go back, but my Dad HATES throwing back fish. He wants to invite 5 ppl everytime we go to big lake cuz he's afraid he'll have to throw a fish back. One stingy mofo right there. 4 freezers at the house.. all full of fish, plus many family members freezers full too. I try to give as much as I can away, I have to clean the damn things most of the time

haha...I don't mind cleanin trout...jus cut the stomach out b4 u fillet and its way easier...but reds suck!

:rotfl: knowing your dad makes this funny as hell

x2;)

Not sayin that you guys dont have your reasons. Its just that for a little while there it was startin to sound like there was something wrong with the people who didnt throw them back. I dont get to go often, so as long as its legal its usually coming back with me. I go to put fish in the freezer.

Well that was when I was fishin ALOT. I was catchin several fish in the 5-8lb range. This was before "life" started. I brought the 9.5 home and my dad said "you need to mount dat thing!". I told him when I hit double digits I will put one on the wall. Well then life started Full time job part time fish and they lowered the limit and less big fish being caught and crowed lake full of texans and pilgrims. :). But I will say I didn't catch the big ones in the lake.

oh man i feel your pain on the LIFE issue.... I thought once i got a job i could fund my trips more and soo on... wife and kid came into play and the fishing vanished for about 2 years. just now able to get back into it.

nothin wrong wit dat!

4+ goes back in the water after a few measurements.

100% agree with Jeremy. Unless they are hooked bad, they swim.

Most people who say they keep them all... Big ones also..don't really catch big trout or enough to under stand...I respect them just to know I might get that 10lber one day...I'm not concerned with eggs are reproduction...we have Millions of trout for that.....I want a chance at her 3 years from now...the more let go, the better my chance

Got my 8+ on the wall not from BL by the way...now everything under 10 gets slung in the boat straight to the chest and right to the knife....haha

Just joking 6 and up go back...ill mount anything 8+ I'm saving up for my stringer lol

Lake P fisherman...keep what ever hits the deck

To bad I'm not a lake p fisherman except in February...duhh!!! I like to catch them 5 pounders
in front of Dumas under the causeway and throw them up on the bridge in traffic...dudes jaw drops..

And I've never caught over 6 lbs in lake p

Lmao....chink caught 10 trout that weighed 100lbs.. On Dumass hole

Agree with this! I do the same.

Only one goin on my wall will be a replica of a 9 + That or a good picture is all I really need. She's lived a good life, No reason for her to die by my hands.

My next will have to be a 9 or above....but sorry Drost...ain't going to be no replica!!!

No replica here either.

Are salty and chink brothers or father son..?

fine by me. To each their own.

Biologist say there is no scientific conservation justification for lowering the limit on BL or setting the limit on trout longer than 26". So if its landed in my boat its life is over.

5+ it lives on ! Just waiting on the one 7-8 to put on the wall !

I like my filets thin and small... soo between 4-7 lbs is going back in the water. Bass are the same way.