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Any fish released is one more fish out there to be caught again. It's fairly standard thinking of trout and largemouth anglers that you DO NOT see so often in the striper fishery. You almost get jumped on these days if you even mention you release a good fish, which is backwards of how it should be.
It's not the fish killed in the OTW tourney itself, but the strong fish keeping mentality overall that it somewhat represents that hurts this fishery. I'm not anti-competition at all (or against keeping fish, they're tasty...) when it comes to fishing, I was in full no-sleep kill mode during the Spring Surfcasting Challenge as I will be in the fall.
It's far more bad ass to release a big fish back into the surf and keep quiet about it if you ask me. Act like you've been there before...
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