A couple of calls to the Fish Lab:

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Originally Posted by njmultispecies

Did he really have to kill a 10lb largie? I mean, think of all the eggs she will produce every year.

Clint Eastwood said in Unforgiven, "It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have."

That's how I feel about killing a bass. When you kill a big cow bass like that - you take away everything she was ever going be and all that she was going to create. She would have grown into an even bigger bass, laid thousand of eggs that contained her superior genetics, and would be the catch-of-a-lifetime for every lucky angler that caught her and placed her back in the water.

But alas, she is dead. Now she is just a pile of rotting fishy flesh sitting in some dope's refrigerator while he learns it's not a record and he can't afford to get it mounted. It'll probably be out in the trash by next week.

There is a guy in Trenton who claims he grew out a bass to nine pounds in a 500 gallon aquarium, then released it. I can't vouch for the veracity of that story, but that is what he said.


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