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05-31-2007, 05:01 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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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
Posts: 6,267
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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
Posts: 1,159
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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
Posts: 305
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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: 4,375
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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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