09-26-2005, 08:21 PM
You just may need to start taking some stripers home and eating them. I love fish tacos made from stripers.
Sometimes when I'm out fishing alone and don't feel like cleaning fish, I only keep the stripers that will not survive if released. I ask other fishermen if they would like them. Never have I been unable to give stripers away. There are always anglers on the shore near Hole 33 who will take them.
Sometimes a striper that is really skinny will die quickly at the surface and become a problem. You don't want to let it die and float away, but there is not enough meat on it to bother cleaning it. What do I do? Keep it as part of my limit and later throw it away. My pard, Don buries them in his garden. I've seen plenty of anglers at the cleaning station just throw these stripers into the grinders.
I'm not sure we should throw any stripers back. There are millions of them in Lake Mead and everyone that is removed makes more room for the rest of them. I really don't know. I release small fish and any other fish that will survive that I don't want. Everything brought home is consumed by us or the neighbors.
BaySport
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Sometimes when I'm out fishing alone and don't feel like cleaning fish, I only keep the stripers that will not survive if released. I ask other fishermen if they would like them. Never have I been unable to give stripers away. There are always anglers on the shore near Hole 33 who will take them.
Sometimes a striper that is really skinny will die quickly at the surface and become a problem. You don't want to let it die and float away, but there is not enough meat on it to bother cleaning it. What do I do? Keep it as part of my limit and later throw it away. My pard, Don buries them in his garden. I've seen plenty of anglers at the cleaning station just throw these stripers into the grinders.
I'm not sure we should throw any stripers back. There are millions of them in Lake Mead and everyone that is removed makes more room for the rest of them. I really don't know. I release small fish and any other fish that will survive that I don't want. Everything brought home is consumed by us or the neighbors.
BaySport
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