Winnipesaukee Forum - View Single Post - Catch and release or catch and cook? What you you do?

greeleyhill · 08-30-2018, 07:24 PM

Glad to read that others share my sentiment regarding releasing smallies and largemouth. We don't keep and kill rockies but maybe we should. We catch them from time to time and on slow days they are better than catching nothing but, when it comes to counting how many 'fish' we caught on any given day, we don't count them at all. We do enjoy how they water ski across the surface when we do catch them but other than that - we throw them back. They have zero fight. Catching a rockie is identical to catching lake weed and reeling that back along the surface.

08-30-2018, 07:24 PM	#14
greeleyhill Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 94 Thanks: 57 Thanked 22 Times in 11 Posts	Good to hear I am not alone! Glad to read that others share my sentiment regarding releasing smallies and largemouth. We don't keep and kill rockies but maybe we should. We catch them from time to time and on slow days they are better than catching nothing but, when it comes to counting how many 'fish' we caught on any given day, we don't count them at all. We do enjoy how they water ski across the surface when we do catch them but other than that - we throw them back. They have zero fight. Catching a rockie is identical to catching lake weed and reeling that back along the surface.