Catch & Release

[wakina]

mkalink!

Here is an example that blows your theory away!

From May 1, 2015 to June 27, 2015 there is a no possession limit imposed on all of the black bass species in the waters of lake Erie and its Tributaries. The season is not closed to fishing for them but possession is prohibited during this time of year.

On any given day there will be fishermen targeting the male small mouth bass as they guard their nest from invaders intent on eating the eggs in those nests. By all practical purposes fishing for small mouths during this time of year would be illegal when applying your theory as one would have already reached his possession limit of 0 bass before even leaving home. So why does the state allow one to target those fish if there is no such thing as catch and release?

Here is the link to the ODNR 2015 Fishing Regulations.

http://wildlife.ohiodnr.gov/fishingregulations

Please feel free to provide myself and all other interested parties with a link or links that would support your argument about catch and release. Links to the state ODNR would be acceptable of course and actually preferred to links that only provide the writers opinion(s).

In Ohio the only evidence that is acceptable in a court of law for Over Bagging is the actual fish that were in the violators possession at the time of his arrest and can be proven to have been caught all within the day in question or other viable evidence that the offender had indeed reduced to many fish of one species to bag within any given day.

Charging a person with intent and proving that person had the intent to reduce more than the allowed amount of fish to bag is impossible as only the fisherman knows what his intentions are or were at the time of the citation.