Some nice smallmouths this season so far

Great looking fish,congrats.

Nice smallies! Can't wait for our opener here.

Nice fish. Not sure I'd eat a big female at this time of year (or any for that matter).
Catch the pike without a leader or the bass with one?

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Originally Posted by sizematters

12" to 14" for me to eat. Anything larger goes back. Did you know that for every ounce of weight over 3 pounds that a bass weighs, it will lay an additional 1,000 eggs.

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Yep, and thats why the MNR have changed the regs in zone 10. Bass have come in like asian carp. (k maybe not that bad) Hopefully more people come up and take these so our pickeral will bounce back.

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Originally Posted by go jets

Yep, and thats why the MNR have changed the regs in zone 10. Bass have come in like asian carp. (k maybe not that bad) Hopefully more people come up and take these so our pickeral will bounce back.

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Make it mandatory to take bass out of the ecosystem, that would slow things down a bit.

If you want to keep a walleye, perch or pike you need to keep a bass as well.

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Originally Posted by sizematters

12" to 14" for me to eat. Anything larger goes back. Did you know that for every ounce of weight over 3 pounds that a bass weighs, it will lay an additional 1,000 eggs.

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Yep, that's why I don't realize any bass over 3lbs in deep lakes.

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Originally Posted by Fox

Make it mandatory to take bass out of the ecosystem, that would slow things down a bit.If you want to keep a walleye, perch or pike you need to keep a bass as well.

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I'm sure anglers would be all over that. And treat the bass well at the same time. Yikes.

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Originally Posted by Paddy

Monsters. Congrats.

I have nothin against eating a smallie, but I don't think I'd go over 14".

How big was that pike?

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pike was 28"

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Originally Posted by sizematters

12" to 14" for me to eat. Anything larger goes back. Did you know that for every ounce of weight over 3 pounds that a bass weighs, it will lay an additional 1,000 eggs.

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good to know but they opened smallmouth year around here in zone 10 north of hwy 17 cause theres just too many there everywhere invading all the lakes so im just doing my part to drop the population especially in the good walleye lakes!

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Originally Posted by go jets

Yep, and thats why the MNR have changed the regs in zone 10. Bass have come in like asian carp. (k maybe not that bad) Hopefully more people come up and take these so our pickeral will bounce back.

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AMEN TOO THAT!!