Question for the moderators?

[carlcmc]

I enjoy seeing all the nice walleye pics being posted and have no problem with it. I'm just curious however about the standard for enforcement employed here on fm.

A few times I have been dinged by having my pictures removed because it was questioned whether they *may* have been dead or not released. Yet almost all the walleye posts talking about catching a limit etc showing pics of fish on tailgates on the grass etc are clearly not being released and are dead or will be soon.

So is the policy no dead fish pics or is it no dead fish pics unless they are walleyes? Just some clarification here.

[Note from admin: Please read forum policy on how to get the answer to your questions on forum policy and how to deal with forum policy violations you see before posting again. Thanks much Carl.]

[Deitz Dittrich]

We have through expansion of HotSpotOutdoors changed our policy some over tha last few years. This is how our policy currently reads.

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Dead Fish Pics Rule

We do respect legitimate harvest of fish and do so ourselves. We are very high on selective harvest for wise stewardship of our lakes, rivers and streams.

The responsible thing to do on a heavily traveled site like this is to heavily promote Catch, Photo and Release and especially selective harvest which has a CPR theme running through it, with photos in these forums.

Besides encouraging Selective Harvest we also encourage cameras in the boat for better looking photos to be taken. This provides one less reason to keep a fish, the photo proves you caught it and it sure looks a LOT better here and in your photo album.

We're looking for fish pictures in good taste that encourage selective harvest principles so the dead fish rule is as follows: Fish pictures must be in the natural environment where the fish is caught that do not look frozen, stiff, bloodied or look like they were just poured out of a bucket and no stringer or fish in a bucket pics. Fish Mount and live release tournament pictures are ok as well. All other dead fish pictures are not allowed.

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Often times the picts you may see will be removed.. but not untill we see them. There are 100's if not 1000's of posts a day which can be difficult to moderate. We are doing our best.