If I am hungering for fish I hit Long John Silvers or the Flying Fish Restaurant in Firewheel

When I was a kid everybody kept bass. There was no such thing as "catch and release". It was "hook 'em and cook 'em".

Seems to me the fishing was BETTER then, not worse. We didn't have Florida strain bass in Texas so we didn't grow the giants we do today but fishing overall was great.

The greatness of this country is that you can have your opinion, I can have mine, and it all works out.

I wish they would only allow one fish over 21 to be retained for harvest state wide. Also be alowed to weigh fish over 21 for a tourney that were going to be released this would keep all happy. As far as mounting one check fish scale or lake fork taxidermy replicas are better than the real thing now. Small bass need to be retained for sure helps the big girls grow and they need to stay and grow. You think that sight at amistad was bad you should have seen the cleaning stations at falcon the last two years I saw three guys with 15 coming out headed to the cleaning station the smallest was six pounds. That will make you sick lol. Bass are one of the best tasting fish around better than talapia in my oppinion so eat up on the small ones. rhe big one on the end got a gill ripped out and wouldn't take off tryed to revive for 20 min.

Southern California has a lake that is catch and release only. It is Lake Barrett. We see very few big bass in this lake. It is full of 1.5 to 2 pound bass that are called Barrett "clones" by the locals. It is not unusual to see catch numbers in the 60's to 70's in the opening month. A slow day is 20-30 bass. I don't know if the reason for this pattern is the catch and release policy. The local lakes that have a 5 fish limit tend to have more large fish. These lakes have records of 18 to 22 pound large mouth bass. These lakes also stock trout in the winter months. The bass stack up when the stocking truck arrives. Bass love rainbow trout. I also like the taste of bass.