Thread: a guy can dream

Pretty cool, but I don't understand why he released it????
After a 1 hour fight and then being drug through the sand and lifted by the gill plates, that fish was not going to live.

"we practice catch and release, were vegetarians."

That seems to be the case with everyone.

God made Animals and fish and said that we can eat their meat, Let It be so!!

I always lay my Reel in the sand too,

Pretty cool, but I don't understand why he released it????
After a 1 hour fight and then being drug through the sand and lifted by the gill plates, that fish was not going to live.

Yeah I agree. I may be wrong, but I think there was a comment that they had stopped to fish on their way to the airport, so prob a no-go on keeping it. Pretty sure a local would've appreciated it. I don't usually accept gifts from strangers myself, but I'd be hard pressed to turn that down.

Originally Posted by CarlF

Pretty cool, but I don't understand why he released it????
After a 1 hour fight and then being drug through the sand and lifted by the gill plates, that fish was not going to live.

This certainly was NOT a clinic on proper fish handling. Still, at least the fish had a small chance to survive; life expectancy of a fish on ice in a cooler is worse.


This is what I think of as a "gladiator release" saluting the valor of the defeated opponent but not really accomplishing much from the point of view of the fish. It makes the fisherman feel good but that is about it.