Klg 2/25

[shucker]

After stoppin by shannons to get my waders decide to hit the gorge some run gun trout before work.Stopped at my usuall holes and picked off fish at each one with a total of 7,managed the trout trifecta brown,bow,brookie from 12"-18".Saw tons of deer today and maneged to get a pic of a half albino one.
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[njfish4life]

Beautiful fish with some amazing color. Great report!!

[Buschwacker]

Great report and a great day.

[Jigman13]

3rd pic... Ace...err...trout up your sleeve! Looks like a great day... good stuff.

[AndyS]

Haven't missed a beat since the fall, and the beat goes on, nice work on the C&R also.

[FASTEDDIE29]

Can you smell the fish with STRIPES in the air? I can! Good catch!

[lunkertaker]

jealous for now...my time will come

Great report, thank

[acabtp]

sweet fish

that deer is part piebald. they are almost white, but don't have the same problems with vision etc that true albino animals do. they're pretty rare, i've never seen one in NJ. good catch!

some more info:
http://www.nj.gov/dep/fgw/piebald.htm

[shucker]

Can you smell the fish with STRIPES in the air? I can! Good catch!
Yeah Buddy, I've been catching allot of good bait for the big D;)

[GetANet]

Nice catch looks like had pretty good action. They are still munching like mad!!!! Had the Trifecta too!!!! LOL

[huntcountypussbuck]

Nice fish. Thanks for sharing the outing results and pictures.

[buzzbaiter]

Those are nice trout but let me give you a bit of advice: if you plan on releasing them, you don't need to grip them so tight for the pic. Pic is nice but releasing them is more important. You can also try to hold them in - or partially in - the water as well which places less stress on them.

This is one of my wild browns form last weekend. You try to support them and don't squeeze them. They don't always cooperate and many will escape but thats ok. Its not like you haven't taken a trout pic before. Let it swim away to fight another day.


http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t455/Buzzbaiter/008_zps1e961411.jpg

[bigfishy]

Gr8 advice !!! agreed 100% and a gr8 pic for an example:D

[shucker]

Oh please with the shit about handling fish,trout are not fine china like everyone thinks.These fish are quickly fought and taken out of the water with a wet hand and tossed back unlike a long fight on a whippy fly rod that that stresses the fish.They survive long rides in trucks rough handling from stockers,tossed of bridges and a endless barage of herons taken pokes at them.

[Jigman13]

lol... the bridge tosses during the stockings are classic!

[Wilson]

lol... the bridge tosses during the stockings are classic!
When I volunteered to help stock the Trout a 100 years ago, we pull up on the Musky and the guy hands me a net full of Trout.
I run down to the river and gently place the net in the water and released the fish out of the net. The guy on the truck comes running down to me with another net of fish and sez "do it like this". He puts the net over his shoulder and launches the fish catapult style 20 feet in the air and into the water. (well most of them made the water!) That's how you do it from now on he said with a stern look on his face.

[bigfishy]

So is that the idea??Is that what are youth should learn??As if its not painfully evident in everything else in this time and age?

We'll just treat everything, including the fish we love to catch and eat
like an endless resource??As long as there are hatcheries, why not?It seems to work on a worldwide scale in our oceans??Without regulations,rules,and general continued awareness, there is no such thing as an endless resource...

Everyone has there own opinoin on fish handling, no matter what the species...Whos to say who is rite?? Maybe science,studies and overall awareness of manymany generations of fisherman....FISHERMEN- not fly fisherman or spin fisherman but just fisherman...

The bottom line is , if a fish is going to be returned, why not handle it better than you would a fish that you are gonna keep??Increase its odds of survival, no matter what the species is...LM bass are one of the hardiest species in fresh water and many tounaments are always improving fish haandling , storage and mortality rates...I think major league fishing is a gr8 format, because all leagal size fish count and their immediatly returned....

Trout are def more sensitve than bass so why not handle them like they are??
everyones opinion is rite on many levels but science is and research don't lie...

[shucker]

"The bottom line is , if a fish is going to be returned, why not handle it better than you would a fish that you are gonna keep".
If I was gonna keep a fish I'd throw it in the dirt behind me,bleed it then jam a stringer thru its jaw but I let these ones go.

[AndyS]

I think they said they are stocking 577,000 trout in the next few months.

I have fished with Shucker many a time, the fish swim away just fine, he cares more about fish than most do. I very rarely even see him use a treble hook in freshwater, 90 percent of the time it is a single hook.

You can't go by the photos.

[FASTEDDIE29]

Shucker is a fine angler and a good man. Pics can be deceiving. AHHHHHHHHH, Andy, you better lock it up before the elitist's start chiming in. WHAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

[bigfishy]

I don't think anyone put shuckers fishing skills in question in any way...
I'm not sure there was a reason to get defensive...Buzzbaiter just shared his opinoin with nothing in mind but the fishes and future fishermans interest...Shared his two cents in the nicest way possible.....I don't think it was an attack in any way....Very nice report and catch , pic, release:D

[shucker]

Its all good.This is by far the BEST site i have found as far as info to improve your catch,not to many crybabys or spot burn police and the little if any critisizm is tolerable.Have a nice day!

[GetANet]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! YOU GUYS ARE KILLIN ME! OH By the way Shucker, how many pieces of T-paper do you use cause trees are a valuable resourse as well and should also be treated as such too! Gently squeeze the paper don't rip it off roll and crush it in a big ball!!!!!

[buzzbaiter]

In the internet forum world, if you offer up the least bit of criticism, you are attacking somebody. How can it be a personal attack if I don't even know the person? I call 'em as I see 'em and to me it looks like those fish are being handled a little roughly thats all. The one bow is clearly being squeezed hard and the first nice wild brown is in a Vulcan death grip. I know pics can be deceiving but not in this case. I know when a fish is being mishandled as I was guilty of doing it for years. The only good thing is that cold water this time of year will stave off any infections or fungus issues so they should all be alright.

C&R anglers pat themselves on the back about how they release their catch unharmed but photos prove over and over again how often fish are not released unharmed. Just because they are not bleeding profusely from their gills doesn't mean they are unharmed. Many fish swim off happily only to die minutes, hrs, days or weeks later from stress, mishandling. They get infections or die of shock or starve to death from broken jaws(common amongst bass).

Point is just be careful. Hold them as gently as you can and as little as you can. If your keeping your catch, you can squeeze them until their eyes pop out for all I care but if your letting them go, don't grab them like a sandwich just because you need to get a picture. Its not like we all haven't seen trout before.

[Bassload]

OK we get it Mr. Whipple don't squeeze the charmin...I mean the fish.

[buzzbaiter]

OK we get it Mr. Whipple don't squeeze the charmin...I mean the fish.

No, I don't think you do. I still see bass being held horizontally by their lower jaw which = broken jaw. That sensation you feel in your hand when you do that are the bass' ligaments tearing. Those bass will swim away only to die weeks later from starvation since they can't eat. Easy fix = don't do it.

Okay, now I'm done.

[Bassload]

No, I don't think you do. I still see bass being held horizontally by their lower jaw which = broken jaw. That sensation you feel in your hand when you do that are the bass' ligaments tearing. Those bass will swim away only to die weeks later from starvation since they can't eat. Easy fix = don't do it.

Okay, now I'm done.


No Buzzkill I do get. What I said was meant as a joke. Do you "get it"?

[njbassman]

Agreed!!!!!!

[acabtp]

huh for a second i thought i was over on girl scout tro... oh wait nevermind

"BAD SHUCKER! PUT THE TROUTS BACK FOR EVERYONE ELSE TO ENJOYS!!!"