Yeah Kezza, people put $$ on the boat to catch the heaviest fish not most points...I dont see the logic.
Bushie, maybe it does but in the long run it could have a negative effect. Weighstations are generally in very public places for everyone to see. Nearly everytime Ive weighed fish in Paihia some tourist has made a comment such as "How could people kill such a beautiful fish, thats awful". While at the time you feel like telling them to stick it, in reality they are just a non fishos giving their view and we have just turned another person against what we do. Looking at it from their view, there is what was a beautiful fish now dead bleeding all over the deck and a bunch of loud mouth drunks celebrating over it, obviously not doing our sport any favours. Tournaments setup to promote this in my view are short sighted. Tag flags go un noticed by non fishos and dont cause the same backlash.
But its all been said before. So we wont be fishing the comp this weekend. whiti-fisho wrote: IAs for this particular comp not everyone agrees with it but if thats the case dont fish it ,our one base has significant prizes for tag and release ,and top boat is determined by points accumulated of which tag and release billfish gain a good amount of points |
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