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Originally Posted by numbskull
I'd want to keep it and show it off and use it to wash away my inadequacies as a person, but I know it wouldn't and I'd be embarrassed thinking it could, and when it couldn't I know I'd regret killing it, and I'd look out at the night sky and know I needn't end the fish's existence to justify my own, and I'd feel grateful, blessed maybe, to have crossed paths with such a great creature, and I'd turn it free and then sit there for a long, long time.
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Well thought out statement.I know a fellow surfcaster who Had the disease REAL BAD..He sacrificed everything, family, kids,a good job.. All in the pursuit of the giant linesider.One winter day as he sit in his apartment all alone with a 53 and a 59 on the wall.The mounts where not enough to take away his grief...
He said that was it. The next day He gave the mounts away and went home to beg his family for forgiveness.
That being said I'll probably still kill the first one..
I'm a fool like so many others.Maybe somewhere down the road when I am in need. I can sell the mount, if I am lucky.For what I paid..
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