Crappie, catfish, and perch I almost always keep at least some, unless I just don't feel like cleaning fish that night. Trout I sometimes keep, and sometimes release, depending on where I am fishing. I will often limit out and then keep fishing, releasing any I catch. With bass it is always catch and release unless the fish is obviously too injured to survive. It doesn't happen often with artificials, but occasionally one will swallow a texas rig, or get badly foul hooked on a topwater.

I catch and release alot. But i do love some freshly caught and fried fish

catch and eat almost every time. i love some fresh deep fried perch

Mostly catch and release, but I have a friend who practices what he calls "catch and fillet."

Both I keep any panfish of good size, I usually keep bass in the mid size range nothing to big nothing to small, keep most catfish and keep any legal walleye.

Catch and release most of the time but I keep a few especially good eating fish like trout, walleye, grouper and snapper occassionally.

depends on what your catching. catch and release unless getting low on good fish to eat.

A mixture of both. When thinning out a pond, I keep all the male bass that I catch and release all the large females. But in the rivers, I release most of the bass I catch. I catch enough other fish to eat and even put a few in the freezer because of the area I am in. I can be fishing in a local river within five minutes of my home which during different seasons has big specks, reds, stripers, and flounders. Most species of fresh water fish are in the river year round. I am just fifteen minutes from a big saltwater bay and thirty minutes away from the Gulf so I have over a hundred species of fish less than an hour from my home. Fish is a food that was meant to be eaten. When Christ feed the mulitudes it was with fish and he even ate a meal of fish AFTER he was resurrected from the dead.

I eat my trout I catch.

I am wondering if it will someday become a fad for catch and release deer hunting with tranquilizers...

Both. It depends where I'm fishing and what species I'm after. It's beat a meal of fresh fish after a day on the water.

I eat alot of what I catch. When I fish I like to see my efforts rewareded with enough fish to feed my family. I do, however, fish for muskies more than anything else, and I like to release these beautiful fish. I keep a few medium size fish a year, but I love to let the breeders go so my future children can enjoy whatr I have been blessed with.