Okay-you've just landed a 50 - now what?

[fishaholic18]

Drag it home and sleep with it...

[luds]

Originally Posted by fishaholic18

Drag it home and sleep with it...

[Gunpowder]

Originally Posted by fishaholic18

Drag it home and sleep with it...

mine is right above my head every night.... never out of sight

[freebie]

first thing would be to take a picture, then I'd call "gonnacatchabig1" and "shipwrecked" to brag about much better of a fisherman I am than them, then I'd let it go if I thought it would make it as I can't afford to have it mounted

[numbskull]

I'd want to keep it and show it off and use it to wash away my inadequacies as a person, but I know it wouldn't and I'd be embarrassed thinking it could, and when it couldn't I know I'd regret killing it, and I'd look out at the night sky and know I needn't end the fish's existence to justify my own, and I'd feel grateful, blessed maybe, to have crossed paths with such a great creature, and I'd turn it free and then sit there for a long, long time.

[NIB]

Originally Posted by numbskull

I'd want to keep it and show it off and use it to wash away my inadequacies as a person, but I know it wouldn't and I'd be embarrassed thinking it could, and when it couldn't I know I'd regret killing it, and I'd look out at the night sky and know I needn't end the fish's existence to justify my own, and I'd feel grateful, blessed maybe, to have crossed paths with such a great creature, and I'd turn it free and then sit there for a long, long time.

Well thought out statement.I know a fellow surfcaster who Had the disease REAL BAD..He sacrificed everything, family, kids,a good job.. All in the pursuit of the giant linesider.One winter day as he sit in his apartment all alone with a 53 and a 59 on the wall.The mounts where not enough to take away his grief...
He said that was it. The next day He gave the mounts away and went home to beg his family for forgiveness.
That being said I'll probably still kill the first one..
I'm a fool like so many others.Maybe somewhere down the road when I am in need. I can sell the mount, if I am lucky.For what I paid..

[Gunpowder]

Originally Posted by NIB

I'm a fool like so many others.Maybe somewhere down the road when I am in need. I can sell the mount, if I am lucky.For what I paid..

i think you can still fish and have a happy family... you just have to find a wife that loves fishing as much as you do and then raise your kids to be fishermen and this will never ever be a problem

[nightfighter]

Originally Posted by Gunpowder

i think you can still fish and have a happy family... you just have to find a wife that loves fishing as much as you do and then raise your kids to be fishermen and this will never ever be a problem

I think we'll have to revisit this sentiment when you have the wife, and assorted kids, one of which is at least in his/her teens.....

There are years when you can fish, really fish, and then there are years, sometimes a decade, when life gets in the way. It's the unselfish man that puts his true prioities in order...

[american spirit]

keep it, eat it, take pics, retire the plug that was caught with it

[tangler]

I'd wake up and get ready for work ....


actually I hope I'd release it after photographing .