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[fisherforever]

Just reading the new freshwater regs this morning and I see they have changed the limit for large mouth. Has gone from 4 per day to 20 per day. Whack em and stack em, they make good fertilizer.

[Rieber]

Just reading the new freshwater regs this morning and I see they have changed the limit for large mouth. Has gone from 4 per day to 20 per day. Whack em and stack em, they make good fertilizer.

Bass are good eating fish.

[psd1179]

Bass are good eating fish.

Depends on waterbody. I ate a few from Deer lake, tasted like mud

But where is the new regulation? I found the same old one online

[cutthroat22]

A link would be good.  I still see 4 as well.

[fisherforever]

As written in the original post "NEW" regs, they take effect 1st of April

[cutthroat22]

Maybe I have pinched to many lead sinkers with my teeth but I can't find the link to the new regs.  Can you provide it?



I haven't seen the easter bunny either but perhaps this is an early April Fools Joke?

[fisherforever]

Not online yet, 2017/2018 hard copy should be available at your local tackle shop, we got ours yesterday

[cutthroat22]

Cool Thanks.

[skaha]

--Yep the online version is supposed to be the current reg...it is in effect until April 1st.
--I was trying to write and article on all of the changes in Reg 8... had to get a paper copy.
--Remember to renew your license as well... in the past the system has crashed on or near April 1st... being a Saturday you might want to make sure you have a current lic.

[Apennock]

Does anyone know if this is because bass turned up somewhere new or is it an "enough is enough" kind of thing?

[243Pete]

As I mentioned previously in another thread, there are some major concerns about large mouth bass as they have been found in systems where they shouldn't be such as Nicomen slough and the lower Vedder where the Sumas connects as people have encountered large mouth bass there.
The CO I talked to I believe his name was Scott, he basically said that next year (This year) that the limit will be changed to either unlimited or a very high number. Not sure about the regulations about not releasing them once caught but his words basically were catch, kill and dispose of them in any manner.

[Rieber]

As I mentioned previously in another thread, there are some major concerns about large mouth bass as they have been found in systems where they shouldn't be such as Nicomen slough and the lower Vedder where the Sumas connects as people have encountered large mouth bass there.
The CO I talked to I believe his name was Scott, he basically said that next year (This year) that the limit will be changed to either unlimited or a very high number. Not sure about the regulations about not releasing them once caught but his words basically were catch, kill and dispose of them in any manner.

This is the first that I've heard Bass making their way into the Vedder/Sumas system - that's not good.

I wonder if these made their way down from Mill Lake or up from the Fraser? I guess either way is possible and they were eventually going to get there without any real way to stop them. Dang it.

[firstlight]

Any water body connected to the lower Fraser will have Bass.

[wildmanyeah]

As I mentioned previously in another thread, there are some major concerns about large mouth bass as they have been found in systems where they shouldn't be such as Nicomen slough and the lower Vedder where the Sumas connects as people have encountered large mouth bass there.
The CO I talked to I believe his name was Scott, he basically said that next year (This year) that the limit will be changed to either unlimited or a very high number. Not sure about the regulations about not releasing them once caught but his words basically were catch, kill and dispose of them in any manner.

when catching salmon smolts in the kanaka or alouette river they constantly get small and largemouth bass. they also get chinook smolts from the harrison and i think that's kinda cool.

http://www.keeps.org/

http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/337851.pdf

'Lower Mainland Region (Lower Fraser River Watershed)
Largemouth bass presence was confirmed for 50 waterbodies in the lower Fraser
River watershed, including 16 lakes and 34 streams (see Table 41). Based on
provincial watershed coding, these records are distributed across 20 drainages.
Though not all waterbodies containing largemouth bass may possess
downstream connectivity due to physical or hydrologic isolation, 15 of 20
drainages are potentially linked by shared receiving waters of the Fraser River
while the remaining 5 drainages are potentially linked only by marine or estuarine
waters.
The first recorded occurrence of largemouth bass in the Lower Mainland Region
was in 1987 in Judson Lake (Anonymous, West Coast Bass Anglers, pers.
comm., cited in Hatfield and Pollard 2006). The most recent occurrences for this
species were in 2004 when 14 records were confirmed over seven separate
drainages (Anonymous, MOE Region, pers. comm.; Chad Keogh, West Coat
Bass Anglers, pers. comm.; Maurice Coultier-Boisvert, DFO Area, pers. comm.;
Anonymous, fisheries consultant, pers. comm.; Jim Taylor, Stave Valley
Salmonid Enhancement Society, pers. comm.; Pearson 1998, all cited in Hatfield
and Pollard 2006). Provincial records contain no accounts of authorized
largemouth bass stocking in the Lower Mainland Region. That confirmed records
for this species are distributed across 20 separate drainages suggests many
populations originated through independent, unauthorized introductions followed
by localized dispersal. McPhail (2007) states that largemouth bass dispersal into
Lower Mainland Region occurred via the trans-boundary Sumas River system
while local advocates for promotion and conservation of bass angling
opportunities have advised government biologists of their belief that largemouth
bass are naturally recruiting into waterbodies in the lower Fraser River watershed
from long-established upstream sources on the Fraser River floodplain
(Anonymous, West Coast Bass Anglers, pers. comm., cited in Hatfield and
Pollard 2006). '

[Tenz85]

Not to get off topic but i recall seeing an episode of duck dynasty where they cooked what appeared to be breaded deep fried bass. Looked good. Never ate it myself but is it similar to any other white meat fish?
Id avoid greater van lakes but would try em from some spots in Fraser valley, island or interior.