OK...let's lay it on the table
 

Do you consider yourself a "conservationist"? If so, what do you do to conserve our resource?

i do my part by trying to fish with a fly rod and scratching most of the time i go and fish!

O this oughtta get good...popcorn...check...beer...check

oh and i let most of my fish go when i do get lucky and catch some!

toss me a Bud Light...and a bowl of popcorn...:work:

I give my money to CCA every year in hopes to catch the "prize" and I never keep over my limit....;)

There are those that preach conservation and call themselves a "conservationist", yet, everything they catch goes to the electric knife. That's your choice but you can't be both.

i only get to go about 1 or 2 times a month so i would say up side most of the people that in its self makes me a conservationist. if i get lucky and get some extra in my freezer. i only keep what i am going to eat


i don't call my self that i just call myself someone who likes to fish when i can though

Yes.......Im a conservationist.........I have a 1000 tags of info of trout and reds I have let go!.........I have caught and released more trout than some catch in a lifetime.......

So Yes I help take care of what we have!!

i make little to no money working for the state on coastal restoration. i think that would make me a conservationist. i know i have to conserve my money!

Ugh...you forgot somethin'............

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Off topic but, Salty were do/did you fish?

that holmboy was everywhere

I conserve my energy:*****:

I like to think I do my part in slowing coastal erosion by paddling around in my kayak.

I don't know about that D. I tend to release lots of gas when plowing my way through 6 inches of water. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

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Well..we'll have to talk to the messican about that problem...Darn beans

Jet Drive....:D

I also practice conservation by throwing all of my fish guts and carcases to my neighbors crawfish in his pond. Just feel like giving back a little.:D

haha...its normally whatever I eat right before going out. Like a bacon, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich...tends to go straight through me.

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I feel i practice conservation, by only shooting drake spoonies...that way they can't populate...:D

you better get off my spoonies thats the only birds i can get to decoy with my calling:cry::cry:

i consider myself a fisherman, i never keep over my legal limits, if i have fish in the freeze i'm trying to not keep more than i need but i do give alot of fish away to friends and customers, im involved in the tagging program . i would like to make sure there are gonna be the same amount of fish for my kids to catch as we catch now but i aint about to hug no trees over it either. i would not mind a 15 trout limit statewide , 15 trout /day in more than enough IMO

That's how he conserves.......he don't fish......

That was well-stated, Poxy. One question....do you keep more than 15 even though the limit is 25 per person? :smokin:

Define conservationist! If I legally keep only my limit and eat all I catch am I a conservationist? If I deer hunt and shoot the first 2 deer I see and then hunt horns am I a conservationist? If I pass on does during management hunts, that are in place to remove deer from the herd, am I a conservationist?

i do but now that you bring it up i believe i will try some self restraint and try the 15 thing for awhile. i just ran my freezer down to maybe 20 filets i let it get low because i saw i still had fish from last summer, and that is just stupid. im my house im the only one who eats fish so 15 is more than enough, but if i bring someone fishing and they rarely get to fish i dont mind letting them keep everyons catch. the tagging program has really helped me show some restraint towards wanting to keep everything. my hopes for my participation in the tagging program are to help the movement of fish study and also help me as an angler learn what and where a trouts goes that i catch during diff seasons and where it ends up when its recaught

Exactly.........I'll keep a limit of fish, which I don't fish every day or even every w/e, don't even go 5 months out of the year due to hunting.
When I was younger deer hunting it was all about the numbers (but not over a yearly limit)....Not any more.....I let at least 13 legal bucks (for our club 6pt or better) walk this year. But didn't shoot a doe either & were on a program to take so many does off our property. So you decide....... Conservationist or not. ???????

I don't keep trout over 4 lbs and try to convince everyone I fish with to do the same. Many times I catch and release.

IMO, management and conservation geaux hand in hand.

Good for you, Chief. :cheers:

I guess I'm a conservationist. I don't harm the population. I don't catch fish.

On the other hand, Miller Lite will be decimated at all times. I do not conserve usually get my limit plus a few more!

most definitely
 

I am a conservationist for sure. I help conserve the baitfish population by keeping my limit of fish when I go fishing. And I help the GO GREEN movement by shooting those pesky deer that eat all our green plants. So all in all, I do more than my fair share to keep the ecosystem in check.

25 per person?

i too work for the state, and am going to grad school for coastal restoration

you are a poser conservationist

you keep limits of baby trout just to say you limited

yeah i had to quit getting the sausage, egg, cheese biscuits from cormie's. After a cup of coffee by the time I get to the launch I have a blow out

I've had to tussle with that porta potty at Heberts quite a few times after a samich from cormie's

I only eat what I catch. Trying to help the cattle population.

Are you a conservationist Salty?

Salty only fishes about 1 time a year........SO he is no threat :p

I reuse my oil twice when I fry fish.

:*****::*****: Me too...I think I went twice last year, no threat here either

release most fish caught, when keeping fish, only keep enough to eat fresh. Never freeze em. Never throw trash out of my boat, Pick up trash when wading a shoreline....etc.

Everybody thinks their a conservationist just because they dont keep fish or kill animals, sometimes keeping the population of something in check helps out more. Being a conservationist is way more than just what u dont keep or dont kill.

cmdrost............same here.
we bring out more trash than we bring in. Every trip every time.
Even do in promto "TRASH BASHES" at the camp when the boys are bored.
I give them five bucks for every 30 gallon bag of trash they can pick up.

Couse summer time we have to just pick up in the lake. Them moccasin things are out like ka razy in the summer on Blind River.

Agree with you to a point. With deer, you def gotta weed em out so to speak. Also geese, that's why they set "conservation hunts" at the end of the season. With limited access to land for deer hunters, duck hunters, etc. only so many can go do it, deer can hide in woods and over produce and not much you can do about it unless you own that piece of land.

Fish are not in that same category. Fishing is public, anyone and everyone can go if they so desire. Also, Nature does a better job of keeping fish populations in check. Then add in the fishing pressure and sometimes nature can't keep up. Fact. Seems LDWF is more protective over the state's game animals than it is over its aquatic bretheren.