Unless you you're fishing to supplement your income by not having to pay for a few meals I generally wouldn't. This will vary immensely by location and i'm positive ill have a lot of people debate/argue with me on this but Unless you NEED to eat it Id just throw it back. I live in a moderately rural area in Pennsylvania. The waterways have gotten better but while they look clean they are actually dangerously damaged. Being a more rural area, all of the pesticides herbicides etc from the thousands of acres of farm lands eventually gets rained on and run off into the waterways. We're dealing with a massive problem of mutated and very sick fish. They're finding fish with both sex organs etc. A couple weeks ago i was fishing a stretch of river next to a sign that announced warning sewage dump off, do not swim. Personally, unless im fishing somewhere i know is well away from bullcrap, or i catch something stocked i wont eat it.

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by ShiftyUsmc