Man Finds -- and Kills -- 100-Year-Old Fish
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totally agreeCamshaft Ramrod;3898527; said:
i fish but i don't spearfish. spear fishing is cruel and unessicary how would you like to be just walking along and them somone shoves a ******* spear into you. and no one please start telling me that a hook through the mouth is excruciatingly painful for the fish becuase it is not fish have barely any nerves in the part of the mouth they are usualy hooked and probably don't feel much when hooked. Speared on the other hand well you get the idea....... if they somehow live through being stabbed then they die an excruciatingly painful death
i would never keep a fish that i wasen't going to eat in fact i have been fishing many times at my cottage AND NEVER kept a single fish they all go back to where they came from.
yes this fish lived 100+ years and depending on the sex it has been breeding for the last 85-75 years at 50,000 to 700,000 ever year its like haresting an old old buck its genes are out there and its possible that its breed its own young
plus all the food it took to keep that 100 year old fed and healthy is know available to younger generations.jikiya7;3911844; said:
VOYTEK;3911262; said:
oh yea lets waste the fish by just taking a picture and releasing it back into the environment with big gapping holes in it.bigdaddy;3906623; said:
again........ r u ppl really losing sleep over this.. it sounds like it
Fish is good for your heart..
i bet Marc Charles would do it for him cheap!!! www.classicfishmounts.com
first off, try reading my post again, and then maybe you can make a grown-up decision on if I'm loosing sleep over this
but I'll highlight what my point was AGAIN
I was stating that no where in the article does it mention what his intentions were with the fish-the redneck obviously couldn't mount the fish cause he doesn't have the money for it...and I was simply bringing up the discussion on what people think if he didn't eat it, (did away with it) just to make a state record or whatever I forgot what was said in the article...if people who participate this sport agreed with that...
If he ATE IT, then fine, at least it didn't go to waste (but I don't agree with this sport-and obviously you can't return a speared fish back to the water so...)
hopefully this was more clear for you...
arowfan;3917131; said:first off, try reading my post again, and then maybe you can make a grown-up decision on if I'm loosing sleep over this
-the redneck obviously couldn't mount the fish cause he doesn't have the money for it...
Nice
People, there is way to much speculation and way to many "what if's" in this thread. They caught the fish of a lifetime in a healthy fishery. As a guide, I have seen many, many once in a lifetime (for the fisherman) fish end up as fillets and I see nothing wrong with that. Do some research about the area and the laws in that area before crying about it. It is a hundred year old fish. Awesome, great, it had a long full life and probably made the fishermans life all the better for him to catch it. In my opinion, the extreme joy that was caused by its death for the fisherman and his peers who caught it legaly out weighs the benifits of it still swimming around.
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