Red Herring wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:14:41 -0500, HK wrote:

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.
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.

Harry, they're played too long when you take the hook out, put them in the
water, and they float. Don't pretend to be more moronic than necessary.
--
Red Herring

Actually they can swim off, and still die shortly after. Light weight
tackle is detrimental to the survival rate of C&R.

Then again, Harry feeds wildlife against all the advice of the experts
who say this is the worst thing you can do for wildlife.