i agree that a good pair of forceps, and proper use of a rubber net does decrease mortality.... but there's always the other guy that doesn't practice care when catching and releasing... (my brother is one of them) in the past couple of years i've all but stopped fishing with most of the people i used to fish with.
as for stocked fish... i've notice they are 10 times more likely to swallow the fly then natives...
i also had a fish we named... poor tax... tax was a good fish, we cought him countless times... over the coarse of a year and a half... one day, we went to the tackle shop, and there was a picture of him, with date and location.... and for you skeptics that might try and tell me otherwise (that that wasn't our fish) water like this:
doesn't really hold many 23 inch golden trout...
that fish gave me one of those moments of sheer "oneness" with nature (if you can relate) he was the first fish i have ever seen jump straight up 3 foot out of the water to catch green drakes... that doesn't happen very often on this small stream, especially 4 foot in front of you.. RIP tax....
-spoof
PS the picture is of my buddy alex, it was his first time playing with his orvis clearwater setup... needless to say, he is in love.
PSS thanks sagefisher, i new it was someone important!
Last edited by spoof85; 06-08-2013 at 10:47 AM.
if every cast caught a fish, it would be called "catching" not "fishing"
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