A couple of keepers from Roxboro City Lake

Nice looking filets!!!

I never been to Roxboro City Lake before. Is it an upper and lower lake? What does it cost to launch a boat?

Gesh... So much for catch and release. Keep all the pickeral you want but that bass should still be swimming...

Look out Jeff. You are opening a very large can o' worms, lol.

Catch and release is great. Doesn't mean you are required to do it though. If it's within the laws then it's a personal preference. Lots of folks defend the almighty bass.....lots of folks don't care about bass whatsoever. In the end......if it's legal, it's ok. Nice job.

Just bothers me on an emotional level to see that bass fileted out and displayed like that. Could care less about almost any other kind of fish. I guess bass fishing plays such an important part in my life I look at them differently than any other kind of fish.

I agree with the "Ok to keep within the legal limits" moral. It just bothers me personally is all.

Nice catch though.

Saw another post where the fellow had been catching tiny bass. That's what happens when everyone loves bass as much as you do. Everyone has there place. We need catch and releasers and catch and greasers for a balanced ecosystem.

When you have a lake with very little fishing pressure you end up with 80% of the bass between 12 and 14 inches long and skinny as a pickerel. You can't have big bass if there's too much competition for the available bait....

I never saw the point of a minimum size limit for bass. I feel like a maximum size limit would be better for populations in places that need managing. Leave the big girls alone and let them keep the smaller fish under control. Course then you'd have to make replica mounts not skin mounts.

I'm with you Swampin I have bass fished since the 70's and we had it beat in our heads, its basically like sacred cows in India. I have wondered myself whether to keep a few . I wouldn't even think about crappie or any other specie. It seems to me I just read about Texas now promoting keeping a few for the same reason you said, balance. Ray Scott raised us almost too well if you know who he is and what a job he did.

Eat 'em up, but throw momma back.

I would like to see people throw some of the biggest female crappie back when they are full of eggs. I just believe the bigger females will help to keep the next generation larger in general. I know this wouldn't be very popular with crappie fisherman.

People like to keep the trophies and toss the babies back without a second thought. Human nature. Not helpful but human nature.


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According to the Wildlife Resources Commission there is a state wide advisory to not eat any large mouth bass. If it was not for that i would be eating about every one i caught that is within the confines of the law of course

Maybe I don't prepare the fish correctly but when a friend of mine and myself cooked a bass once it didn't impress me in the least bit. The bluegill/crappie/readears we fixed made up for it though.


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duckhunterwst said:

According to the Wildlife Resources Commission there is a state wide advisory to not eat any large mouth bass. If it was not for that i would be eating about every one i caught that is within the confines of the law of course

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The no lmb advisory is for pregnant women and children. The rest of us can eat 6 oz per week

I've only ever eaten bass that was cooked over an open fire with old bay seasoning. I liked it alright but I'm not much of a fish eater anyway. I think I liked the idea of eating my catch out in the wilderness more then I liked the fish itself.