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Originally Posted by bassballer
How many of those fish would have been kept anyway????
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Every fish that was caught:
- by a commercial angler during commerical season that was within their limit
- by an angler that was comfortable selling it illegally
- by an angler that wanted to eat it.
- by an angler that felt the need to show their catch to others, get a true weight because they didn't have a scale with them, or weigh it in publicly
I'm sure there are other reasons that I can't think of at the moment but I think more would have been kept anyway than released. Tough to know the exact % but there are also definitely alot of fish that would have gone back otherwise. This tournament is definitely a drop in the bucket as far as fish killing but I think it's definitely indicative of overall attitudes to c&r. It also has to contribute negatively to c&r since it's primarily a kill tournament that although has fairly low numbers of fish weighed in it an be far reaching as far as influence.
I'm not saying I didn't have a sh%tload of fun when we won it though!
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