02-09-2020, 05:02 PM
Agreed ! I'll go ahead and be unpopular of opinion right along with you on that Dubob. Also agree that fish eat fish dead or alive - its what fish do - thats also why dead bait fishing works.
While I also do release most fish I catch in most places I also know that some end up as eats somewhere in the food chain somewhere in the water column - sometimes they are even taken away by airborne predators from above as they float belly up or struggle on the surface. Everything that lives has to eat something.
If a person is determined to attempt to help one of the deep denizens survive there is a device called a "Fish Descender" that has a remarkable survival assistance percentage capability. I generally try to bring a descender and use one on those rare occasions that I am intentionally targeting fish in really deep water. But more often than not I would probably keep those fish if possible. I am one of those people that likes to eat fish of all kinds.
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While I also do release most fish I catch in most places I also know that some end up as eats somewhere in the food chain somewhere in the water column - sometimes they are even taken away by airborne predators from above as they float belly up or struggle on the surface. Everything that lives has to eat something.
If a person is determined to attempt to help one of the deep denizens survive there is a device called a "Fish Descender" that has a remarkable survival assistance percentage capability. I generally try to bring a descender and use one on those rare occasions that I am intentionally targeting fish in really deep water. But more often than not I would probably keep those fish if possible. I am one of those people that likes to eat fish of all kinds.
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