It may be thier right..it may be legal..but it is not ethical if you are a true sportsman...period. There are plenty of eating fish that are far more prolific and better to eat than LM and SM bass. There is more than enough pressure on the bass now days without taking them out of the lake...as far as selective harvest..as far as public lakes where there are a lot of tournaments going...there is plenty of them that are being thinned out by the tournaments. Last year I watched a guide (mostly panfish and not too smart either) in his boat with 2 clients and a follow boat with 3 more guys taking big fish off the beds in one of my favorite spring areas and putting them in their live wells. Friend of mine told me he saw them filleting them out at the dock that afternoon.

Not the first time I have seen a guide doing that...panfish mostly guide of course. I turn down a lot of trips every season from folks that want to take some bass home with them...not in my boat.

If my post offends anyone...I really don't care...