how old was the last feeder you gave to your fish?redtailfool said:
less than 1 year
what life would you rather lived
Huge Freakin Fish
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less than 1 year
what life would you rather lived
finsandfangs said:
I don't eat meat, I don't wear leather, I don't use feeders. I have no problem with meat eaters at all, or people useing feeders...I just choose not to. Mostly because I don't like where the meat comes from (Factory Farms). Hunting and fishing is a much better way to get your meat IMO. I actually work on a beef cattle/pig/chicken farm. My problem lies within the fact that this fish took two hours to kill and the guy has no respect for the animal other then to use it as a throphy. You see the difference....I know you do.
finsandfangs said:
Dude..but is this subject fish killed for food?!?!?!?! can u see the difference now?
BGG, it's your opinion and your respect to bestow, IMO open water spear fishing is a kick and a challenge, reefdiving may be different and I doubt I would take a big grouper like that one.
I see a lot of preconceptions jumping out in this thread, things like the fish has to be old, or he probably doesn't even like the taste of fish.
Some fish grow quickly, you don't know him. For all you know this one trip satisfies a dream of a lifetime and he eats fish at every meal.
I hunt, I fish, I cast nets, and I use a hawiian spear.
I don't catch and release, I kill and eat. I don't hunt for trophy racks because younger bucks taste better, I obey fish limits and game laws. I make it a point to kill at least one animal to eat each year, it is part of my religion. I wear leather but seldom fur. I don't believe in wasting hides, I try not to kill anything that I won't eat.
Growing cotton kills more animals than growing wool, synthetics kill more than either.
Longliners and commercial drag trawls do more harm in a season than all the divers in the world can do in a lifetime. Asian Arowanas became uncommon in the wild because it was a status display to eat or keep them.
Just drool over the fish and drop the knee jerk generalities.
I see a lot of preconceptions jumping out in this thread, things like the fish has to be old, or he probably doesn't even like the taste of fish.
Some fish grow quickly, you don't know him. For all you know this one trip satisfies a dream of a lifetime and he eats fish at every meal.
I hunt, I fish, I cast nets, and I use a hawiian spear.
I don't catch and release, I kill and eat. I don't hunt for trophy racks because younger bucks taste better, I obey fish limits and game laws. I make it a point to kill at least one animal to eat each year, it is part of my religion. I wear leather but seldom fur. I don't believe in wasting hides, I try not to kill anything that I won't eat.
Growing cotton kills more animals than growing wool, synthetics kill more than either.
Longliners and commercial drag trawls do more harm in a season than all the divers in the world can do in a lifetime. Asian Arowanas became uncommon in the wild because it was a status display to eat or keep them.
Just drool over the fish and drop the knee jerk generalities.
WooOooo... Didn't mean to start a post that made some people kinda annoyed i'm sorry. But this is a type of grouper a warsaw or something. So you can eat it eat. And i know for a fact that this guy has a commercial licence to sell fish for food, which is what he did so please people stop getting annoyed at each other.
I have done some spear fishing, its quite fun, even though I wouldnt even think about smoking a fish that huge, its an amazing shot to bring that thing in.
either way, poor fish, I hope that guys happy he just killed an incredible fish just for those couple pictures.
either way, poor fish, I hope that guys happy he just killed an incredible fish just for those couple pictures.
guppy said:
You're right that not all spearfishers and bowfishers are like this, bgut I know a lot of them (20 or 30... I don't know them all really well, but I've been around them enough to get my fill of the majority of them). But, the vast majority of fish like that that are caught using spears are simply hung up as trophies, no? I've also seen the posts of similar people on fishing forums and the way that they defend themselves for doing it is a load of nonsense. I suppose that I don't have anything against those of you that catch something and use as much of it that is at all possible, but MANY spearfishers and bowfishers, and whole bunch of other types of "sportsmen" just kill for sport, which I view as being just plain sick. I did generalize too much, but I think that we can both that the majority of spearfishers and bowfishers just hunt for sport and don't actually use anything on the animal that they've killed (it may not be the vast majority, but a majority nonetheless). And I also don't care for spearfishing as it can turn perfectly wonderful diving areas into awful diving areas as the fish are constantly hiding. I could go on and on, but I'd rather not...
