Rough Fish

  • Mike Burke
    Oskaloosa, Iowa
    Posts: 267
    July 10, 2014 at 1:46 pm #1439161

    When fishing the river or lake and you catch a rough fish ( carp, drum or gar) do you kill it or just release it unharmed ?

    And

    If you do harm it fatality. …how do you do it ?

    fishdale
    Posts: 406
    July 10, 2014 at 2:03 pm #1439174

    I just release it back. The law that required you to kill rough fish went away in the early 80’s.

    tomr
    cottage grove, mn
    Posts: 1275
    July 10, 2014 at 4:08 pm #1439204

    release. Don’t think it would make any difference in the population either way. Maybe if everyone killed them but the lakes would be a mess.

    Mike W
    MN/Anoka/Ham lake
    Posts: 13294
    July 10, 2014 at 4:15 pm #1439205

    Would never kill them. Rough fish have saved more than one fishing trip for me. Many of them are a lot of fun to catch. Catching 3 to 5# red horse that fight like a mule one after another in the fall can be a blast.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    July 10, 2014 at 7:29 pm #1439246

    Just remember, if you think you need to kill it, you also have to take it home with you and you have to “utilize” it in some way. Either as a meal or fertilizer.

    nhamm
    Inactive
    Robbinsdale
    Posts: 7348
    July 10, 2014 at 8:05 pm #1439268

    When I was little my father would slit the belly on dogfish and let them go. Never felt right about it.

    Still think its funny how many people still think its illegal to throw them back, run into them at the river all the time.

    Bryan Myers
    Moderator
    Posts: 586
    July 10, 2014 at 10:33 pm #1439286

    I always enjoy catching a rough fish now and then, and I always release them unharmed. Unless I’m catching them with stick and string then there fertilizer or there goin on the smoker.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    July 11, 2014 at 8:55 am #1439363
    nhamm wrote:

    Still think its funny how many people still think its illegal to throw them back, run into them at the river all the time.

    I don’t know when I learned about it, but it was relatively recently, like 5-8 years. But it didn’t affect me because I still through them back when it was against the law. I used to fish Rice Creek as a kid in the spring and the stench from the rotting corpses around you was disgusting.

    Ed Stern
    Goodhue, MN, Goodhue County,
    Posts: 510
    July 12, 2014 at 3:23 pm #1439712
    average-joe wrote:

    <div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>wannaplay wrote:</div>
    Kiss it, then let it go…

    Yup, I agree :-*

    “Just remember…….no tongue!”
    Sorry, I just couldn’t let that one slide!

    joc
    Western and Central, NY
    Posts: 440
    July 15, 2014 at 4:42 pm #1440572

    Never was illegal in NY. The only ones I kill are white perch which are killing off the yellow perch population in one of our local lakes. Caught some hugh sheepheads and carp before when using a worm – spinner combo. I hear this Asian carp is trouble if it ever makes it way further north.

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