45lb Tuna from this weekend

On Tue, 15 May 2007 at 23:22:19 in alt.binaries.pictures.fishing Peter
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On Sat, 12 May 2007 at 16:11:58 in alt.binaries.pictures.fishing Putain
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On Thu, 10 May 2007 at 08:07:24 in alt.binaries.pictures.fishing
Charles
Summers wrote:
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On Wed, 9 May 2007 at 11:44:24 in alt.binaries.pictures.fishing
Charles
Summers wrote:

FFS, couldn't you have cleaned it up and portrayed it a bit more
sensitively than that?

Naa... I wanted PETA to get a good look at it.

A lot of anglers will have been disgusted by that picture of a fine
fish, let alone PETA.


Yes, anglers, regardless of whether they ever eat fish or not, who have
never cleaned a fish on their own.
If the sight of fish blood is disgusting then you shouldn't be fishing at
all.

You miss my point as well. I'm not squeamish about blood. I kill and
clean all my fish because I don't believe in C&R. But was that supposed
to be a picture of a fine fish..? or a picture of the killing of a
fish..? I'd prefer fine fish to be portrayed in such a way that we can
see them at their best. Not upside down with a gaff in them and blood
all over the place.

If your point was simply that it wasn't a good photograph artistically, as
compared to a nice posed one displaying the fish
in it's full beauty and glory, I'd say you certainly didn't convey it very
well. At all in fact.

I thought I did. My original post was "FFS, couldn't you have cleaned
it up and portrayed it a bit more sensitively than that?" The response
"I wanted PETA to get a good look at it" was crass.

Have you ever been tuna fishing? Due to the characteristic of the fish and
the fact that the size calls for gaffing, it's always a
pretty bloody affair. The photo depicted a scene I've seen before and I
didn't find it "disgusting" at all.


Actually, I found it kind of disgusting because the gaff hook
obviously spoiled a sizeable amount of the fish's meat. Out of San
Diego, where I fish tuna, the skippers and crew pride themselves in
head-gaffing the fish so as not to mess up the meat. Here's an example
(a 30 lb class bluefin from several years ago)

That's more like it - a picture which conveys the catching of a good
fish rather than just the bloody landing. And presumably the
head-gaffing kills the fish as well...

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Nogood Boyo