05-05-2017, 09:53 PM
[quote sharksugar101]Thanks! I was just wondering because I'm trying to catch a record carp. The record that stands right now could easily be beat. If I did actually try for a record trout or something like that I would do the CR. It's still a hassle so I wouldn't go out of my way just to trophy fish, and you're right about telling everybody where you caught such a fish because it would get 2× the pressure.[/quote]
More like 10x the pressure. In the 80's I and a friend from my Army unit would fish Pueblo Reservoir South of Colorado Springs. We were both poor enlisted guys with wives and kids, and we all loved to eat Walleye, so we kept our limits every time we went down there. He loved to take the fish out of the live well and string them up and hook one end to the boat and string them out to him and take photos for his "family". He started to give these bragging photos to the local bait shops, and some even made it into the paper, so guess what! I would pull my boat on the water and 10 other boats followed me around the lake like I was the Pied Piper. NOT COOL.[mad] I painted my boat after that, stopped taking him fishing, ended our friendship, and made sure I never took him ever again.
Two or three of the Walleye we had pushed the Colorado State record at the time, but I never weighed them. The photos alone were all it took. I watched the fishing pressure on that lake grow in a month to the point where it was a half hour wait to get to the boat ramp every weekend.
I am far more careful of choosing friends now, and seldom take pictures. When I do, I sure don't tell people what body of water the fish came from.
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More like 10x the pressure. In the 80's I and a friend from my Army unit would fish Pueblo Reservoir South of Colorado Springs. We were both poor enlisted guys with wives and kids, and we all loved to eat Walleye, so we kept our limits every time we went down there. He loved to take the fish out of the live well and string them up and hook one end to the boat and string them out to him and take photos for his "family". He started to give these bragging photos to the local bait shops, and some even made it into the paper, so guess what! I would pull my boat on the water and 10 other boats followed me around the lake like I was the Pied Piper. NOT COOL.[mad] I painted my boat after that, stopped taking him fishing, ended our friendship, and made sure I never took him ever again.
Two or three of the Walleye we had pushed the Colorado State record at the time, but I never weighed them. The photos alone were all it took. I watched the fishing pressure on that lake grow in a month to the point where it was a half hour wait to get to the boat ramp every weekend.
I am far more careful of choosing friends now, and seldom take pictures. When I do, I sure don't tell people what body of water the fish came from.
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