08-11-2011, 05:55 PM
Pack / tmas -- there is nothing wrong with processing your fish. My problem is when you process your fish simply to be able to go out the next day and harvest more fish. To answer both of your questions (what should you do?): Your options are simple:
1. Stop fishing once you have a possession \ daily limit
2. Eat your harvest
3. Wait until the end of your trip to harvest -- practice catch and release in early days of your fishing.
You can justify it all you want, but the fact is that many people use "processing" as a means to skirt the possession limit. If this is OK with you, fine. It is not OK with me -- which is why I choose to ONLY keep 1 possession limit, whether my catch is processed or not.
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1. Stop fishing once you have a possession \ daily limit
2. Eat your harvest
3. Wait until the end of your trip to harvest -- practice catch and release in early days of your fishing.
You can justify it all you want, but the fact is that many people use "processing" as a means to skirt the possession limit. If this is OK with you, fine. It is not OK with me -- which is why I choose to ONLY keep 1 possession limit, whether my catch is processed or not.
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