On Sep 1, 1:37 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
"HK" wrote in message

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Mad Fin Shark Tournament. What the hell is the point in "sharking"?
Catching pelagics only to release them, under circumstances in which most
of them are gut-hooked and therefore probably will die?

I do C&R fishing myself, but not for pelagics you have no intention of
eating, not for a long, long time. I can see catching and keeping a tuna
or some other "eating" fish, or a kingfish, or Spanish macks, et cetera,
but catching fish you have no intention eating?

Folly.

You would like it better if they killed and kept the sharks?

Ohhhhh, I'm getting excited here. Watching them fishing off Beverly
Mass. Killing stripers... I am taking the family out tomorrow to the
CT River base and out the mouth if I don't get skeeret with this low
transom I wanna' have a day like that, actually I want to go out
tonight, but then I may not be up for tomorrow... tick, tick, tick, is
it time to go fishin' yet? "It's always time to go fishin' son, just a
case of gettin' up and doin' it"