Thread: New Fishing Regulations?
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01-31-2017, 08:27 AM #21
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I worry about both cobia and blue marlin.
Currently the blue marlin tournaments here are still hanging up the big ones, at what looks like an alarming rate to me. Admittedly I have no good data, I hope I'm off the mark. Unfortunately moving to 100% C&R is not so simple. Aside from losing the spectacle and such, even if tournaments implement a good way to give more points for bigger fish, bringing a 600+ pound blue boatside and releasing it with enough energy to live is no easy task. I suppose even a 25% survival rate would be better than the odds of one that hangs up at the Wharf.
Good tip Tom! These two big fellas were screaming like girls when that happened to them last week... LOL
A Spadefish safety tip!