Do you keep your legal fish or are you catch-and-release only? Why?

[mdhager115]

Do you keep your legal fish or are you catch-and-release only? Why?

[steve182]

I keep some, but not most of my catch. If i'm really nailing them i'll keep a few for a meal. If i'm picking up only an occassional fish, i'll throw it back. Why keep a fish if you'll only get one? Not enough for a meal. For me it's close to 50/50 what i keep and release. I throw back all native brookies though.

[lovetohunt]

I release them so other people can catch them. The only fish i would keep is walleye and maybe pike.

[huskerguy]

If fishing is good I might keep a couple and eat that night. Otherwise I'll throw em all back.

[shane]

In some places and in some cases, I've kept legal fish. I sort of make my own judgment call on how the particular species is doing in the fishery I'm fishing. But about 95% of my fish get released. Unless I'm in Yellowstone. That always turns into a lake trout bloodbath. Gotta kill every last one.

[Beekeeper]

Keep enough for the table.

[dwaynez]

Keep a few small fish for the table and release the rest.

[usmcturkey]

I release all the fish I catch. I do not have any desire to eat the fish, so I catch them for sport.

[Alex Williams]

Its about half and half. Like for my birthday on Monday we are having a fish fry so the past times we have gone fishing, we have kept almost all of them. I believe we have about 3 quart sized bags full and pair that with homemade french fries it should feed me and my brother. (haha just kidding that will feed my whole family)

[ETangler]

Release them so someone else can catch them.

[MLH]

Depends. I usually catch and release trout and bass. If I go for other fish it is to usually for the table. I still want to try a brook trout but am always catch and release fishing when I get them and I just hate to keep the larger ones.

[bonnier-admin_2]

i catch and release

[kolbster]

i keep most that i catch, good eating.

[buckhunter]

I very rarely keep a fish. If I'm in the back country I sometimes keep one to fry up but other than that no, I do not kee fish.

[streack]

I probably release about 90% of the fish I catch because mostly they are from the local river which is an absolute cesspool. .