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I am a pure sports fisherman. I love to trout, bass, shad, crappie, bluegill, salmon, steelhead, sturgeon fish. I only c&r (95% of time) except for legal salmon/steelhead/sturgeon. I would never throw a damn fish on the bank if I were not to eat it. That is total b.s. and I can't believe you aren't gettin an ass chewing for that comment. I know there are plenty of bass fisherman out there that would agreee with me. You need to think about that next time you catch a bass. Bass fishing is just as important to me as any other sport fishing, you will never catch me wasting a bass, let alone any other type of fish.
As for trout, salmon, steelhead runs the bass don't really effect them. The fish spawn way further up so bass shouldn't be the problem during spawn. How would you like it if I decided I didn't like salmon and just starting throwing any one I caught on the bank for a worthless reason?
As for trout, salmon, steelhead runs the bass don't really effect them. The fish spawn way further up so bass shouldn't be the problem during spawn. How would you like it if I decided I didn't like salmon and just starting throwing any one I caught on the bank for a worthless reason?
The PIKE MINNOW I agree eats a great deal of smolts but they are native and therefore should not be killed. Bass, as I have said before, are a WARM water game fish. Smallmouth prefer slightly cooler temps than largemouth but its not that much there preferred temp is still 65+ degrees. All bass begin actively feeding 50 degrees at the lowest and in a river I am sure its more due to the moving water/high flow periods that often coincide with salmonid smolt movement out of the system. The point here is they(Bass) barley touch the SMOLT population if at all as far as chubs, shiners, other bass, small pikeminnow, and crawfish are concerned they do get consumed probly in large doses but they are prolific buggers and are more likely to get wiped due to habitat loss (JUST LIKE SALMON) than actual predation from another species. They hang out it the same habitat and are more active in the same water temp/water flow period. Humans do 100X as much damage to salmon than all the bass in the world ever have/will so please if you throw them up on the bank toss them high so maybe gravity will do its job and it will clobber you in the head. Lets go fish off of a DamWe can take our pet seals along it will be fun!
Well this has gotten off subject quite a bit. But anyway yeah them Banjo's work pretty good I like the Banjo Frog personally myself. FISH ON!