I know some people think it is cruel to kill fishes . I practice catch and release keeping some for the table usually the injured ones . These gamefish are the sharks in the pond , they make their living killing thousands if not millions of smaller creature to feed themselves . I dont get all wet and weepy for these tigers of the aquatic world . Unfortunately most of the time I dont have the information to enable me to know if there are too many small fish or too many big fish in the lake/pond/stream that I fish . I have to go with the legal limit as a guide . If the limit is 1 , I probably won't fish there . If the limit is 6 , then I fish . Its not perfect but Its what I got.