On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:41:53 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote:

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
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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.

That's not exactly true.

It is true that light tackle can increase the amount of lactic acid,
proper C&R technique is to let 'em set in a heavily oxygenated live
well before you release 'em back into the wild.

About the only freshwater fish that I know of that can handle the
excess are the largemouth/smallmouth fishies.

Normally, it's not a long fight though - I don't do a lot of long
casts into structure.