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asadi wrote:
http://ebaumsworld.com/2006/07/flyeye.html

I guess I don't understand this. Why didn't the guy just grab the hook
with his Dr. Slicks and pull it out? I mean, c'mon, if you foul hook a
trout in the eye are you going to risk losing your tee time while you
drive it to the vet? I just showed this to a new angler who couldn't
(or did not want to) watch it. I find this amazing. The marketing
fiction, that catch and release angling, where all fish are caught
harmlessly in the corner of the mouth, does not hurt the fish, is,
apparently working. I can't wait to see the video of removing a Grizzly
Kings from genetalia. Catch 100 trout and, what, 10?, will be hooked in
the vicinity of the eye and anus. Just math.

TBone
Guilt replaced the creel.

All of which makes it impossible to be anything but impressed and amazed
that all of the fish YOU catch and release escape entirely unscathed.
How
DO you manage it......you fatassed brain-dead hypocrite?

Enter the priest.

So, you NEVER release undersized fish? You do know that's illegal, don't
you?

Halfordian Golfer
It is impossible to catch and release a wild trout.

Stupid. Just plain stupid.

We caught one fish the other day on the Los Pinos, and that fish was
missing it's lower lip entirely and could not close its mouth.

Well......gosh.

I'll post a picture.

And......what? You think that will get the hag off your back?

1. We've been over this before. Slot limits, not catch and release.
This is selective harvest, which has a sound biological reason and
helps eliminates random class mortality. Moreover, I'm not a saint and
more often then not lately I can not kill a beautiful fish and I
release it, this is my constent torment amd why I often sign my posts
'guilt replaced the creel'. This bothers me.

2. No, not really. Wild is a term to describe the relative wildness of
an animal which is, specifically, a term relative to the 'absence of
the hand of man'. It does not mean 'indiginous' and it does not mean
'born and reared in the river'. Catching and releasing a fish, is in
specific contradiction of the term and a caught and released fish, by
definition, is less wild than it had been before being caught. This is
manifested as empirical evidence in the behavior changes the fish
exhibits.

3. Well gosh is right. Someone ripped the lips off this fish. Pretty
barbaric. Wait until *that* picture is on a 36 foot billboard (no I
will keep the rights to the one I have).

4. No ,not by a longshot my good internet buddy.

Your pal,

Halfordian Golfer
Guilt replaced the creel.