bass in america = cows in india??

I intended the post to be helpful to other fishermen and people who have never really bass fished before to have a chance to catch a nice bass. i personally dont like to keep bass to eat,
for one share a lunker programs are great i mean look at lake fork. its just like hunting a 10yr gamemanaged lease if you take care of it there will always be trophys and good memories of that place. So dont keep the big ones so that your kids - kids may enjoy having that catch of a lifetime as well as you did

In those Lewisville canals there is absolutely nothing wrong with taking the small LMB out of them. The Elm Fork of the Trinity River floods into the Lewisville canals every 5-10 years anyway so they are restocked by Mother Nature. (If Rita would have come 100 miles further west that restocking would be taking place right now.) I am sure the stocking goes both ways. Any big bass that are in the canals might end up in the river and vice-versa.

I have no idea if the same thing can happen in the canals of Irving, but it does in Lewisville.

One other thing that flooding means: What is in the Trinity is in the canals. LMB, bluegill, carp, buffalo, crappie, sand bass, channel cats, flatheads, blues, drum, gar, etc. They are all there. The sandies and channel cats need current to spawn so they can't reproduce in the canals. They will eventually die out anyway. Harvest them.

Kevin

I have no problem with anyone keeping some bass to eat, myself i don't like the way they taste i'll eat some sandies and stripers if i'm fishing for fish to eat.
I have a pond by my work that i love to take my son fishing at when he is here from lousianna, but to many ppl taking home everything they catch now you are lucky if you can catch 2 fish out of it, and the funny thing is the ppl keeping everything are now complaining they can't catch anything, man i wonder why, my other pond was having the same problem until i told the guy that was keeping everything that the fish where contaminated, i watched him let 5 bass go, man what a good felling to know there might be 5 more bass my son can catch when he is in texas.

Caught a couple behind Best Buy last time we had a good rain. Was flooding over the little spillway and the bass were waiting right there under where the water was coming into the other canal. Have heard of some people catching some good catfish there too. You can actually drive your truck down on the spillway and fish off your tailgate if you wish.

Directions: Take 35E to Hebron Pkwy and go east to the first light (lakeside circle) and turn right. Turn right on the two track immediately after the first pond on your right and follow it down to the spillway and canal.

Would not consider it good fishing though as have never really caught anything except when it had rained and was overflowing the spillway. Much better luck at Grapevine or Lewisville from the bank IMO.

Actually there is something wrong with that if it decreases the number of big bass or impacts the max size of bass in a pond or lake. Somebody smart once said do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I and a lot of others would have you throw bass back larger than 12 inches. The reason you can find decent sized bass is because a lot of us do practice catch and release. Like I said before, it's not like when we were growing up (for those of us old enough to remember back when there was no such thing as catch and release but there were way far fewer people in the land). It's a different world now. Can't we just respect each other enough to all release the biguns? Like I also said, God has given us (most of us) jobs and the ability to make enough money to buy all the food we need. And large mouth bass don't even taste that good -- compared to other fish species like striper, crappie, bluegill, redfish, etc.

I be d*** if someone tell me to throw back a fish I caught. If the fish is legal and I want to keep it, then I am going to keep it. It's amazing how you guys encourage releasing large mouth bass, but don't have a problem keeping other species like crappie, bluegill, striper, etc. I remember a couple of years ago I was reading an article about bass fishing and the Game Warden was basically begging the people to keep the bass because there was too many in the lake. I can't remember the name of the lake or the state. He also mention that the overpopulation of bass has a great impact on how big the fish will grow. It's really not a bad thing to keep bass, if you want the fishing to continue to be good in the future.

barndoor

it's kinda lik deer in the hill country. Yes, culling fish is necessary, but you need to be careful what you take home. There may be a million of them, but if you only keep the monster bass - there won't be any more big fish in the future. They need to live to be able to breed. If you don't want tons of mediocre fish, then take those. That's why lakes have a "Slot limit". You let the big mommas go make babies and eat the ones that are within the slot.

This is a bit off of the ongoing ethical rant, but can anyone say with any certainty that it's legal to fish these canals?

I mean from a trespassing standpoint.... I've heard there are some really big fish off of the pond on the north side of corporate drive, but I also heard it was illegal to fish there...

Actually, most "slot limits" allow you to keep fish above and below the slot...not IN the slot. For instance, Grapevine has a 14-18 inch slot. Bass less than 14 inches or greater than 18 inches may be retained. Why do you suppose that is?

I stand by my statement that there's nothing wrong with keeping fish (including bass) if you're going to eat them and if it's legal to do so. Limits are put in place for a reason. If the bass population were in danger then then TPWD would not allow us to keep 5 fish per day. Why is it that everyone seems to think that they know more about what it takes to maintain good fish in Texas waters than the folks at TPWD do?

Should we also not shoot any dove, turkey or quail? What about trophy hunters? Why are you not criticizing them? They can afford to buy their own meat, but they want that mount to hang above the fireplace.

Look, all I'm saying is this. If you guys don't want to eat the bass you catch then that's fine. I won't either (but not because there's something wrong with it). But, don't criticize the folks who do. They're not doing anything wrong (ethically or legally).

i only keep LMB that i don't think will live anyway.

unfortunately, i've seen a lot of folks who keep fish inside the slot, fish with nets, etc.