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If you want to catch a variety of decent-sized "fighting" fish
around here, you should fish the mouth of the Bay, near the
Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunner around Norfolk-Virginia Beach, or the
nearshore or offshore wrecks down there.
Correction:

If "the fight" is that important to you, you're a very strange
person. "The fight" is a reaction to a strange stimulus and it's a
struggle to survive. It's impressive, but do you really fish just
so you can have repeated demos of a basic animal instinct? WTF???
No sense being a recreational fisherman, then.
"Wow! Look at that fish doing exactly what it's expected to do!"
Now, that's a surprise. :-)
One of the advantages of not using light weight tackle is you do not
overexert the fish where they build up an excess of lactic acid,
giving the fish a much higher survival rate when C&R.
You actually said something that makes sense. WTF?
Depends on the depth of the water where the fish are and the ability of
the fisherman. When the fish are in 10-25 feet of water, and you aren't
pulling in 100' or more of trolled line, it isn't much of an issue.

Not true (depth of water). The level of lactic acid is determined by the
length of time spent exerting muscles. A fish caught in 3 feet of water
and played too long will have problems. This is why catch & release may
not be all it's cracked up to be.
Played too long? Is there a played too long meter? Will reggie google it
up? Stay tuned.


This is based on research described in a book I read last year. When I
mentioned it at the time, you agreed completely with the concept. Isn't that
interesting?



I think it is a factor if you "play" the fish a long time. I don't. But,
againt, what is "too long"?