there is a time and place to do it, the spawn isn't one of them but if your on a house boat on shasta and keep your limit of just keeper spots that is the way to do it.... i have kept around 3 bass in oregon EVER and they were tournament casualties.... places like shasta with a huge population of scraper fish it is no problem at all, i dont mind if people eat a bass or two its how you go about it keeping big bass that wont even taste as good keep the 12"ers and thats fine in places over run with them go for it...