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Originally Posted by spence
I'd wager many if not most who are against it have never done it, myself included...
My take is that the perception is that it's:
1) very effective
2) used mostly by comms
3) has a high mortality
Now, knowing little about it, I have no data to say if there really is high mortality or not. For all I know break offs could be very rare and the method could simply be very effective at catching large bass.
But considering the poaching that many believe (or know) to be happening...the image of a person using a potentially high mortality technique to poach fish at the expense of the legal fisherpeople is easy to imagine for many, regardless if it's legitimate or not.
Thats at least why I think so many are against it.
-spence
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1. Yes it is.
2. Yes it is.
3. Yes it does, but in my case it is because I don't think I have lost a fish after hooking up when I go comm fishing with my buddy.
Further though, I find it difficult to imagine using coat hanger under the dorsal fin, but some probably do, most comm people use the same type of wood skewers that teriaki are grilled on and I find it even more difficult/repugnant that a sparkplug or other such items are used. We used a custom pored weight in the fishes mouth. This last winter/fall a doctor wrote to the Vineyard Gazette and at some length took exception to the opinon the lead weight swallowed by a striped caused harm to the fish or anyone who ate the fish even after the weight entered the body of the fish through the stomach wall and became permantly stuck there because obviously it can't exit the fishes body. The doctor wrote that the harm to the fish would occurr to the bone structure and scales, not the meat. One of the derby participants caught a fifty something pound bass that had I think five weights inside the fish. The took the weights out after weighing the fish and then counted the fishes weight for the derby less the lead weights. I think the biggest problem lies with the people that use this method to catch fish and dont know how to put the fish in the boat. They pull the hook out, the knots they use are not tied up well-enough, and son on. If you've fish in amongst a drift with a group of twenty or thirty comm guys over a large pod of stripers with just a few feet between boatrs like I have I don't see any of them dropping bass. They land thier fish. The only people I see dropping fish are the ones who yank the hook out of the fishes gut and are rec. fisherman. That 50 plus pound fish the guy on the Vineyard weighted in couldn't have been harmed to much to have grown to the size it did.
And I didn't start this thread this time.