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Have a nice set up in the Roanoke River in Salem, Virginia. It's C&R only from Oct. 1st. thru May 31st. on two designated stretches of the river. There's a one mile portion right in the middle of a beautiful park ( Green Hill Park) in the City of Salem and a two mile stretch from the Colorado Street bridge downstream to the Route 419 bridge. The rest of the river is also stocked in various places and available for harvesting anytime and the C&R areas revert to "catching and keeping" starting June 1st. as the river gets a little too warm for hold over fish. You also have the possibility of hanging into a nice smallmouth and some good sized carp once in a while. A seventeen inch smallmouth put on quite a show last year along with a twenty-two inch carp. The carp resulted in two trips back and forth across the river. C&R areas are also sectioned off on several other nice streams through out the state.
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In Guyana C&R is almost never done, there is no closed hunting or fishing season, people here even use poison weeds to catch fish.I have been here for about 12 years numbers and sizes caught have been showing the results of this. I wish I could do something about it.
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c&r is not compulsory in Scotland, but more people seem to use c&r than used to be the case (in my experience anyway).
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Work is a means for people to afford their fishing.
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In Arizona C & R seems to be practiced mostly by fly fishers, the bait fishers (and there are a hellava lot) play catch and keep nearly all of the time in my observation any way.
Even in the stocked rivers that get too warm to support trout in the summer, the fly fishers seem to release.
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Snow on the roof with fire in the hearth
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New Zealand. Its not compulsary but practised widely. There is a reason why we dont have formal C&R and that is because the environmental crowd jump on it and use it. Fish management is controlled by seasons size and bag limits, which generally works well. There is one river I know of where you can only take fish between 50-55cm in length.
Many clubs local to rivers are very forward in telling anglers club members or not, to practise C&R.
It works here, every freshwater angler is required to have a licence and the majority of anglers are honest people, kiwis are very forward in protecting the waters and have no qualms about being verbal about it.
Some waters in the South Island are now by ballot only due to the substantial angling pressure in season, this is something of a thorn to nz anglers as this pressure is coming from tourists who fly in via helicopter thrash the living daylights out of these trophy waters and fly out again. I am not sure whether they are allowed to fly in or not, but they do.
NZ waterways are there for the public although not all waterways have public access, it is illegal to charge for access or for fishing rights. A landowner can say no, but they are not allowed to obtain payment for access.
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J Castwell,
I am a new memeber, unfortunately (as its fishing season at home), I'm not in Australia at the moment, instead enjoying the delights of the Middle East.
R
dave
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In Jersey, the ultimate put and take state, catch and release is practiced by most fly anglers. Most keep a few trout each season.
Of course, many, perhaps most, bait anglers keep their limit every time out and are disappointed if they don't limit.
We only see those folks during the stocking season.
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As far as trout in Oklahoma are concerned the majority of fly fishermen C&R, the majority of spin fishermen are fishing for a limit. In some areas some of them are fishing for two or three. . .
As far as warmwater fish, in general crappie, sunfish and catfish are food fish, and bass are a pretty equal mix of C&R and catch and keep.
This has just been my experience with other folks. I C&R 95% percent of the time, or more.
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Doug,
In central Quebec, my home waters are currently C&R for Atlantics over 63 cm.
On the same river, bag limit is one trout over 16 inches per day.
C&R is really new in Quebec. Some zones still have daily limits of 20 trout. http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/frown.gif
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Christopher Chin
Jonquiere Quebec
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Chris, Thanks for your reply. I was wondering how is the health of your Atlantic Salmon runs??? <><
Thanks,
Doug WL OR