06-19-2006, 03:00 AM
I'm with you kirbydoggie-
Just because it is technically legal does not make anything "okay". The fact of the matter is that good bass fishing (in public water) is so difficult to find in Colorado that it needs to be protected. Certainly most, if not all, of the smaller metro area lakes need to be catch & release for bass in my opinion. n It takes too long to0 grow those fisah and they're much more valuable as a sport fish than as a "food" fish.
There are places with an abundance of small bass from clean water where you can keep fish without damaging the fishery (Lake Powell and Flaming Gorge come to mind). They're just not in Colorado!
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Just because it is technically legal does not make anything "okay". The fact of the matter is that good bass fishing (in public water) is so difficult to find in Colorado that it needs to be protected. Certainly most, if not all, of the smaller metro area lakes need to be catch & release for bass in my opinion. n It takes too long to0 grow those fisah and they're much more valuable as a sport fish than as a "food" fish.
There are places with an abundance of small bass from clean water where you can keep fish without damaging the fishery (Lake Powell and Flaming Gorge come to mind). They're just not in Colorado!
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