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[dwolf 1]

went for a little meat run the other day off the md canyons.thought you guys might enjoy the pic's, cheers,

 

& ps - here's the link for the 2nd grander ever off md this week!( in 2 consecutive yrs) it's all because they finally banned longlining off Florida a few yrs ago. now we just need to stop them off the other seaest states & the rest of the globe.

 

http://www.whitemarlinopen.com/catches/1260/catch_photos

 

 

 

a marlin showed up behind that spreader bar & was gone

Edited August 6, 2010 by dwolf

[dwolf 1]

 

nice yellowfin

 

beautiful blue fin

[niall_b73 41]

not thats fishing :notworthy:

 

nice 1.

 

niall_b73

[welsh power 16]

good pics mate a lot of us wood love 2 do some fishing like that keep it up

[whin 463]

dood crack the old tuna fishing ,had afweqw goes in gran canaria was fun

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

nice fish mate nice baot to.

BUT lets ban longlineing, so we can catch and kill more fish because that makes sence

people rely on fishing for a liveing please dont be so quick to jump on the banning bandwagon

[dwolf 1]

nice fish mate nice baot to.

BUT lets ban longlineing, so we can catch and kill more fish because that makes sence

people rely on fishing for a liveing please dont be so quick to jump on the banning bandwagon

 

 

thanks for the cheers guys.

 

i hear you perthshire keeper. & i see where you are coming from. i know ban is a dirty word over there too.

i have fished for a living too & several friends still do. it's just that longlines are indiscrimate death traps & i see more every time i'm out. it's basically like poisoning the whole countrysideto just harvest a few deer, if you saw the waste & killing you'd be sick. the kill millions of breeder billfish every year & babyy tuna,& swords, etc. & they can't keep them so they just dump them, sea turtles, sharks, everything. & it's overfished too. almost all tuna & swordfish for market used to be caught by the local fleets with rod & reel & harpoons up until fairly recently when the multinational slaughter began. it's a much more precise method of harvesting swords & tuna. you can target the right class of fish & release the young ones. sportfishing brings hundreds of millions more into florida than any commercial fishery , so for their swordfishery to recover & bring tourists - it was a no brainer. same everywhere, sportfishing is much healthier way to hunt & harvest & brings tons more money into local econs, & it's sustainable & the local fleets will still fish for market, but not by keeping & killing babies & broodstock. there would't be any giant marlin left w/out sportfishermen hammering conservation, just like wildlife. hunters saved almost all of our big game from market hunters at the turn of the last century over here,& the antis didn't save f**k, over there or over here,& still won't. it's hunters & fisherman that do & they rag on us..

cheers

Edited August 9, 2010 by dwolf

[dwolf 1]

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Edited August 9, 2010 by dwolf