Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:58:30 -0400, JustWait
wrote:

thunder wrote:
On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:20:07 -0400, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


One final thought - we, and I mean all tournament fishermen, need to
reevaluate the landed tournaments and go towards the X series billfish
and shark tournament model - on board judges who film, document, measure
and tag all catch then released back into the eco system.
That seems to be the wave of the future. It does take some time for
minds to change. Look at bass fishing. When I was a kid, a bass was a
meal. These days, at least around here, it's a rare instance when a bass
is kept. They are almost always released with the hope they can be
caught again. Same with a trout, once the put and take openers are gone.

I think quite a few sportsmen are coming around to seeing that ocean fish
are too valuable alive, to be caught only once.
Yeah, I see too many yahoos going out for Blues and coming home with a
boatload, only to leave them to rot on the dock or in the garbage at
home. They just wanted to get the photo for their friends. For years I
have been known for never telling how big my fish were, as I have pretty
much always been catch and release since I was a kid. I will keep up to
one blue a year as my kid loves the oily poppers I make. I will keep
legal striper bass as I love em' and so does my father in law. And I
will keep larger rainbow trout, or brookies, but no browns, they taste
like cardboard...

So, what do you do with the hats, eyeballs, ears and bits and pieces
of the boats you "catch" when fishing? :)
Send them to this guy named "Parker", he uses them to build boats!