Catch and release of course. There's only 1 lake that we take fish out of, its about an hour away and is on property owned by his wife's family. There are so many 2-3 pound bass in that lake we eat as many as we can catch just to give some of them room to grow. This lake is the lake I live on, right on a main intersection in the city. That would have been the biggest for me, but is not his biggest. We've seen numerous 10+ lb bass in this lake, and I've seen one that HAD to go an easy 12. Rumour of a 15lber caught years ago by some old guy (no offence all you old guys) with a night crawler. I don't doubt it one bit. On a standard day of fishing during the spawn it is not hard to catch 25 bass weighing more than 4lbs, with at least 3 or 4 weighing 7+lbs. I've never seen better big bass fishing in VA, and it's all fishing from shore...