RI Blitz??

[Saltheart]

Yep , up and down to keep the sneaks dry but try as you may , you will eventually get a wave over the shoes and wet the jeans up to about mid shin!. Been there , done that decades ago. Some things never change. People have a ball doing it. I once saw a girl in gym shorts and bare feet do this for about 3 hours in late november until her lips were purple from the cold. We let her sit in our truck and warm up. I think its great peopie get so psyched. Who cares if they are experts? They are having fun!! .

[Odizza]

Originally Posted by Saltheart

Yep , up and down to keep the sneaks dry but try as you may , you will eventually get a wave over the shoes and wet the jeans up to about mid shin!. Been there , done that decades ago. Some things never change. People have a ball doing it. I once saw a girl in gym shorts and bare feet do this for about 3 hours in late november until her lips were purple from the cold. We let her sit in our truck and warm up. I think its great peopie get so psyched. Who cares if they are experts? They are having fun!! .

thats what its all about!! regardless of level

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by Saltheart

Yep , up and down to keep the sneaks dry but try as you may , you will eventually get a wave over the shoes and wet the jeans up to about mid shin!. Been there , done that decades ago. Some things never change. People have a ball doing it. I once saw a girl in gym shorts and bare feet do this for about 3 hours in late november until her lips were purple from the cold. We let her sit in our truck and warm up. I think its great peopie get so psyched. Who cares if they are experts? They are having fun!! .

You know what's wrong about it? It increases release mortality.

Guys drag fish up over the sand to keep their feet dry. This removes most of the protective slime from at least one side of the fish (and often both sides when the fish flops around). Then, dollars to donuts they don't have pliers, so they run up to the truck or to the tackle box placed high and dry for pliers. Then they run down and throw the fish into a receding wave, but of course, by the time the fish lands after the sand crab discus flip, the wave has receded too far and the fish lands with a thump on the sand. Waves coming in cycles as they do, the next wave doesn't quite reach the fish so they kind of gingerly run down and give it a little "help" towards the water by booting it with their feet. Then, repeat with a dozen small fish over the next half hour or so. How many of those fish actually make it after being treated like that? I've seen this a thousand times in my life if I've seen it once.

But hey--they're having fun and after all, they're just fish.

Sorry for being the elitist snob that I am

[Slick Moedee]

Following up on what Mike P. has pointed out, yes it is all in good fun, but there is a cost to that fun. The 2006 Mass SB Monitoring Report was just released recently and the recreational release mortality numbers were twice what the harvest numbers were by number of individuals, something like and estimated 700,000 post release mortality to 350,000 retained fish. Haven't read through the full report to check on estimation methodologies but there is definitely an impact to all this excitement.

[The Iceman 6]

Good points Mike P, some people just don't get it nor will they ever. Some people eventually do get it. It's just a matter of listening to a more educated surfcaster and actually doing something about it. In the end it comes down to having respect for the fish. I hate it when somebody kicks back a fish into the water, esp. a striped one.

[quick decision]

Originally Posted by Saltheart

Yep , up and down to keep the sneaks dry but try as you may , you will eventually get a wave over the shoes and wet the jeans up to about mid shin!. Been there , done that decades ago. Some things never change. People have a ball doing it. I once saw a girl in gym shorts and bare feet do this for about 3 hours in late november until her lips were purple from the cold. We let her sit in our truck and warm up. I think its great peopie get so psyched. Who cares if they are experts? They are having fun!! .

can i get a amen

[piemma]

I hope she didn't get here gym trunks wet......

[tattoobob]

Just her bra-less top

[BassDawg]

A) I think it would behoove us "gentlemen", Zac & bart, to not persist in the previous patterns from <<<<<<ova there.

B) As for my infamous BLUEFISH, it was more like 5 months ago, it was only the third boo I had ever hooked, and since then I've become quite proficient with the toothy bastages, thank you.

Why does that one occassion, an instructional one at that, resonate so deeply with youse guys, bart/Zac/Skitts/et al?? Didn't know that my PAST ineptitudes meant so much to you fellas .

The main difference between me and them is that I would never mistreat any species ~animal, fish, or fowl~ like that, except for perhaps them varmint dogfeesh !!