What's the average size of these four types in lakes? And what size range would you say should be eaten or put back?

Trout: ______inches avg / ____ lbs avg / Release under ______inches
Bass: ______inches avg / ____ lbs avg / Release under ______inches
Perch: ______inches avg / ____ lbs avg / Release under ______inches
Sunfish: ______inches avg / ____ lbs avg / Release under ______inches

A friend of mine loves to bring in trout and calls 15" a big catch at look-out lake. I remember when I started at langford lake and was pulling in 17-22" and thought that was average for a lake and watched everyone put back the 15" because it was too small to fillet.

Personally, I like to keep one or two trout in the 16-18" range for eating, the bigger ones are a little muddy tasting sometimes and the smaller ones I release as I want to see them get bigger and they don't have much meat on them. Bass I never keep, the fillets are too small for the size of the fish and I never developed a taste for it. Same for sunfish, perch I would keep if I ever caught any decent sized ones, but I usually just catch one or two, and they are pretty small.

I've never "filleted" a trout of any size ever......you don't fillet trout.....you cut the head off and then gut them. Then cook them up whole and after that take the skin off (if you so desire) and then open them like a book and pull the backbone out. Easy.

If the trout was really big I guess one could make a case for "filleting".....say a 10lb. Rainbow or Steelie.

If the average size of the trout you catch is 17 inches......you are doing not bad at all.......

Most of the 15 inchers I ever get end up in the frypan......