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05-31-2007, 01:05 PM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
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Is THIS a SLOB?
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05-31-2007, 01:17 PM
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Boston Anglah
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Sitting on top of the world with my legs hangin free
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Holy COW!
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Used hard and put away dirty....
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05-31-2007, 01:23 PM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rowley
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Wow what a fish! and nicely played on the thread title Mr. Buggar
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05-31-2007, 02:03 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Landlocked in my own prison
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That will get the blood pumping. Holy cannoli Batman!
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"Love is like a snowmobile racing across the tundra then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
Matt Groening, Life In Hell
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05-31-2007, 02:14 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: In the water
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That is one BIG Fish
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05-31-2007, 02:24 PM
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Let's Rock!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Wareham, MA
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That would work.....nice fish!!
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05-31-2007, 02:26 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Wawawow! Nice fish!
Also, congrats on the 2nd place shore blue Mr. Sandman.
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05-31-2007, 03:12 PM
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Red Eye Jedi
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: East Facing
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that is most definitely a slob
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05-31-2007, 03:21 PM
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D'oh
Join Date: May 2004
Location: RI
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that fish could eat a slob for breakfast. that is a HOG.
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i bent my wookie
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05-31-2007, 03:26 PM
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Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Marshfield
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I got to get a place on one of the islands. That's awesome!
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"Sunshine Day Dream"
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05-31-2007, 04:17 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Beautiful fish, but I'd feel better knowing it was still swimming out there. Sounded like the guy who caught it would have as well, but the guy with the boat got caught up in the glory of it all.
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05-31-2007, 04:28 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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David knows where the big ones swim.
Heard about it the next morning but didn't want to say anything. There are a few more left out there.
Got bait?
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05-31-2007, 04:37 PM
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Fish Hound
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Shrewsbury, MA & Mashpee, MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
Beautiful fish, but I'd feel better knowing it was still swimming out there. Sounded like the guy who caught it would have as well, but the guy with the boat got caught up in the glory of it all.
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i feel the same way. i woulda loved to kno it was still swimmin out there too. but i guess theres two ways to look at it. 1. wat would u do if that was u that caught it (think veryyyyy hard on that one and you goes for everyone) and 2. a fish of that size has got to be in the 20 yr. old range and is probably on final few seasons. but ure right, big bass spawn more eggs than there 30 pound girlfriends so its def a tough call. |
"There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart.....pursue those."
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05-31-2007, 05:01 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
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You guys crack me up. I doubt any of you would release a 60.
Second, I think these big old fish don't have has many ripe eggs as you think. I would rather have a spawning mass of lots of 20-30#ers then rely on a few old fish with stale eggs.
Just like a 20 year old women is better to bear children then a 60 year old grandma. Fish are the same. Older fish have more eggs but many are dead. If you have ever looked at the eggs of a 50+ # fish you will see that most of them are not the vibrant pink/orange color of the 20#ers...they are more brown. Most of them are dead. Nothing wrong with taking a big fish IMO. She did her duty.
Personally, While I release a lot of fish, a personal best stays with me.
Besides...the comm guys would have kept it after first weighing it in for the striper cup.
If you caught a 80#er would you release it? Hell no! Don't be a hypocrite.
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05-31-2007, 05:05 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
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I'd keep it, mount it...and brag about it for the rest of my life 
now that is a slob... |
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05-31-2007, 05:25 PM
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Fish Hound
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Shrewsbury, MA & Mashpee, MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman
You guys crack me up. I doubt any of you would release a 60.
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dont worry i didnt even release my 47.75 pounder. in fact, i had her skin mounted and she sleeps above me every night much to my girl friends disliking. apparently, the fish gets more kisses goodnight than my gf but whose counting????  |
"There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart.....pursue those."
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05-31-2007, 05:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Manhattan
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I understand they wanted to release the fish, but feared it wouldn't make it...
I did release my boat 49.5 lber... but will keep & mount my first surf- caught "50" for sure!
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05-31-2007, 07:28 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Huge fish around.
Maybe by Sept there may be a 70 among us.
It doesn't look bigger than the 51 on my boat last week
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05-31-2007, 08:08 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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If keeping a big fish makes you feel better about yourself than releasing it, then that's your business. If not, then let it go.
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05-31-2007, 09:59 PM
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Red Eye Jedi
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: East Facing
Posts: 4,374
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why does it have to be like that? you work your ass off for the fish of a lifetime, why not keep it? it has laid many, many eggs. a 60 pounder has done its job for the striped bass population as far as i'm concerned....
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06-01-2007, 01:31 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Lombardia
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Across the 60lb barrier indeed qualifies that fish to be called a slob
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06-01-2007, 12:41 PM
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Where'd he go?
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Rhody
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It sure is, nice fish Jim!  |
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06-01-2007, 02:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Beverly
Posts: 513
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What a hog. I hope this big fish trend continues I'm still looking for my first 40 lber let alone a 60!!
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