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Originally Posted by Saltheart
Finesse my butt! You are needlessly killing fish so that you can play with them longer after a hookup. Light tackle fishing for stripers you are not going to keep means higher mortality for the ones you catch and release. You may think its cool to play a fish a long time so that you consider yourself "finessing" the fish with ultra light line but in fact you are wearing the fish down to where he can't even break 8 lb line. In that weakened state , its unlikely he will survive after the release.
You are also leaving behind lots of gear in the fishes mouths for the ones you do not successfully "finesse" in . These fish have a higher mortality rate too.
Anyway , fishing for stripers with freshwater bass gear is not finesse , its ignorance of the fishery and the consequences of such missapllied gear.
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pfft.. rarely took me more than 5 mins to get a fish in.never over 10. never had a line snap. never had a fish slow to swim away.
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