Do tournament bass fishermen eat their quarry

[BIGSHOW]

That would be a good survey mojo. Rank your top 10 fish. Your pretty close to what I would say. It just seems weird to have bass right above carp. Also it depends on how they are prepared. I'm sure someone could smoke or prepare carp and someone would kill for it. I had some smoked stergeon up at Bortell's in Ludington and it was the best smoked fish I ever had. Most expensive too ( $17.99 lb.) Probably the oldest also

[djkimmel]

Where you catch a fish from, when you catch it, how you take care of it and when you eat it has a LOT to do with how it tastes. Small to moderate carp caught in the early part of the year from cold water, from water that is real clean can taste okay, particularly if you remove all the lateral line area - any darker flesh. It helps too for some of us if you don't know which fish you're eating...

It still rarely taste like pepperoni pizza to me but sometimes some fish is real good.

[Mojo]

Where you catch a fish from, when you catch it, how you take care of it and when you eat it has a LOT to do with how it tastes. Small to moderate carp caught in the early part of the year from cold water, from water that is real clean can taste okay, particularly if you remove all the lateral line area - any darker flesh. It helps too for some of us if you don't know which fish you're eating...

It still rarely taste like pepperoni pizza to me but sometimes some fish is real good.

Dannys gone bye bye ......

[JBASS]

I do not like to eat fish so unless someone wants a fish I always throw them back ....However if it is a big fish it would always go back....In the old days I would have a big fish mounted but no longer that with the replica deal....

[Mojo]

So after 46 tournament bass fishermen, we are saying that 0% regularly keep their quarry?

Very close to 80% wont eat bass period, and 90% overall will not intentionally keep bass (if it dies in the live well then you make use of the fish).

That's about what I thought, and it's convincing and data driven.

[djkimmel]

Not too many scientific journals will accept data as statistically significant with only 46 samples from a single biased population source.

We all already knew that most of us throw back most or all of their bass. And of course, the members that do keep some of their bass are afraid to publicly admit it on this website and similar websites because of the almost immediate, pretty much guaranteed backlash they get from other members, which I think is a real shame and a misuse of the real potential many fishing and outdoors websites waste.

What you need to do Mojo is get on websites that aren't made up of almost all completely like-minded people and share your information on those places. That is a lot more 'fun'... and would actually get the information we already know into the brains of your actual target audience (who are extremely rare on this website). You could also tell people you run into the same stuff whenever you get the chance because it does sink in and get passed along over time.

Here... you're just 'preaching to the choir'...

Statistics 101 and Public Policy 101 (with some Human Psych 101 thrown in). I like to see people care and get involved, but I think it is also pretty important, in this age of limited attention span and everybody is too busy that any energy we do take the time to use towards change be targeted most wisely where it will actually see some benefit. The target audience for your message is not on GreatLakesBass.com.