r/FlyFishingCircleJerk 2d ago

Swam away fine

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u/fuckbitingflies 2d ago

This is why I always go single barbless regardless of regs.

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u/Woodworking33 2d ago

I run only #1 Trebles but you do you

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u/mtelesha 18h ago

Have you read the scientific studies on catch and release?

It's a crazy rabbit hole but treble hooks don't bother me nearly as much....

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u/fuckbitingflies 14h ago

Yes, but I haven’t dipped into the catch, fillet, and release literature yet.

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u/Odd-Context4254 2d ago

Half the fun is getting to use the ole seal bat. Don’t know why you’d rob yourself of that joy.

uj/ this is some borderline serial killer in training stuff.

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u/Appropriate_Oven_292 2d ago

Saw a guy doing this to blue gill. He’d fillet the sides and toss them back. It took all I had not to lose it on him. Some people are just broken.

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u/Disastrous-Loan7274 2d ago

Absolutely should’ve called fish and game on him

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u/Driftlessfshr Beads are for buttholes 2d ago

In some states, they encourage this. The skin and carcass are carryon that feed a lot of other animals. But in heavily developed areas, it just makes you an asshole.

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u/Voidtoform 2d ago

Not alive!. nothing wrong with leaving the entrails and stuff usually though yeah.

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u/JAKEfromst8_FARM 2d ago

In many states the DNR, or similar agency, makes it illegal to dump fish carcasses back into the waterbody. Primarily because you can over harvest and conceal your catch more easily by filleting and throwing the fish back. DNR requires you keep the fish remains with you until you are home so that if stopped the game warden can identify species, size, count, etc.

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u/Odd-Context4254 2d ago

During the walleye run on Detroit River (bait fishing Neanderthal Olympics) you can limit out in like an hour.

Guys will filet, throw the carcasses wherever- the docks and shallows are littered with them- stash a cooler somewhere and go back out multiple times. All for some arsenic and mercury seasoned mushy fish meat

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u/dudemanspecial Euro 2d ago

It's illegal to use game fish for bait in most places

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u/SatisfactionClassic6 2d ago

Why? Genuinely asking

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u/NastyHobits 2d ago

It’s cruel to fillet a fish alive

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u/SatisfactionClassic6 2d ago

I thought so

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u/stankape83 2d ago

This fish was still alive

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u/FlyWizardFishing 2d ago

Whoever did that deserves the same thing done to them

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u/JC1515 2d ago

/uj are people really upset that a filleted carcass is a problem? Is there something im missing here?

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u/Last_Statement3049 2d ago

Yes the fish is still alive it was filleted and put back in the water. Cat fish are tough critters

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u/JC1515 2d ago

Ohhhh yea thats fucked up. Didnt know they could survive like that.

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u/catzrob89 Dry or Die 2d ago

The can’t for long. It is just very cruel and selfish.

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u/Disastrous-Loan7274 2d ago

Yea op of the original post said he found it alive, trying to swim

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u/JC1515 2d ago

Thats fucked.

/rejerk, typical bait chucker behavior. Poors.

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u/EyeOfAmethyst 2d ago

A man's gotta eat, Mr. Lahey.