On Jan 20, 11:10*am, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is Here wrote in message
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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.- Hide quoted text -

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Guess we should just cut their frekin' heads off then.. more humane??

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:18:40 -0800 (PST),
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Guess we should just cut their frekin' heads off then.. more humane??

Remember that bluefish you argued with for about ten minutes in
Narragansett?

Think it appreciated the time in the live well to recover? Did it
die? Did it swim away when you let it go?

There is C&R and then there is correct C&R.

On Jan 20, 2:19*pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
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On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:18:40 -0800 (PST),

wrote:
Guess we should just cut their frekin' heads off then.. more humane??

Remember that bluefish you argued with for about ten minutes in
Narragansett?

Think it appreciated the time in the live well to recover? *Did it
die? *Did it swim away when you let it go?

There is C&R and then there is correct C&R.

You are right there dawg... That fish was in there for at least 3-4
hours and was way cool when we let him go. Catch and release is much
healthier for the fish than choppin' his head off and gutting the
thing, almost any time I would think But seriously, that blue looked
very healthy and spry when we put him back...