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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"?


There's no way for you or I to know that unless we happen to have a
biologist in the boat who's prepared to measure, in whatever way they do
that. All you and I can do is forget the nonsense about light tackle being
"more sporting".