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Originally Posted by bd-
Sorry to ask, but how do you keep your fish? I see a yellow rope stringer in the right corner of the second picture. If you're keeping fish on a stringer, you really shouldn't cull them out once they're on the stringer. A fish that has been on a stringer for very long is likely to die even if released alive.
bd
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Ninety five percent of the time I keep my fish in a very large basket. When I catch a Crappie I know immediately if the fish is going home with me or not. Those fish always go in the basket. What the pics do not show are two buckets I carry with me. I have a seat on top of them as they are stacked together to keep me from sitting so low. If I catch a legal fish but think I will get a bigger one those fish will go into the bucket filled with water and I change the water out as needed. Depending on water temp I may accumulate 5 fish and if I think they are becoming distressed I will walk up to the car and go ahead and put them on ice. Culling fish on a stringer is darn near impossible without a lot of trouble...losing fish...fish mortality and so on. If I do not have my basket with me for some reason if it goes on the stringer it goes home with me. Many times I will just throw a fish back as I am fairly sure I will get bigger ones. What you do not see in that picture is the fish basket that stringer is attached to. There have been a couple of times I forgot to put the basket back in the car after taking it out and washing but as I said...if it goes on the stinger it is going home with me.
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