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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
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