Keeping OOS fish

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Hey guys...Frequent lurker, first time poster. Great site!

After reading the above post, it sounds like justice may have been done after all. If the guy kept the fish and released it on the way home, is it possible that you affected the youngster so profoundly that he berated his dad in to submission? Or better yet, he told him how...dissapointed he was! Now that would hurt worse than any fine! :lol:

Again, great site! Keep up the good work!
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That's a good point Jimmynorth.. I remember one time I was about 5 years old at the hydro outflow, with a friend of my dad's in the boat. He caught a sheephead and tossed it on the rocks.. my dad being the passive guy he is just scowled.. but me being a loudmouth 5 year old told him to go get it.. and how would he feel being tossed onto the rocks to suffocate! LOL well he jumped out of the boat and put his sheephead back, only to get caught by the hydro workers and get yelled at for being on the rocks (the rule is to stay off the rocks no matter what). LOL, well he never threw another sheephead on those rocks again.. or any fish for that matter :lol:
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tinbanger wrote:We drifted apart and shortly therafter saw my Nephew land a nice fat SM .. you know whats coming next .
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I just thought I'd throw this out there, ...after this guy has already been drawn and quartered,
.....note that it was the youngster that caught the fish,
....what if it was the nephew, .....that begged his Dad not to throw it back, ......and the dad just gave in...

I'm definitely not condoning what he did, just that there might be mitigating circumstances, maybe he just chose keeping his boy happy, ......over the fish.

I mention this because something similiar happened to me,

Years ago, we were family camping by a lake somewhere, ...my oldest son (around 8yrs old) & I rented a boat and rowed out to fish for awhile, he caught a bass, (the first fish he had ever caught I think)..begged me to keep it, so he could show "mom"
....wouldn't listen to anything I had to say,....I let it go, ....but the rest of the day was very quiet, ...to make matters worse, ...when we got back, ...the rest of the family was on his side too, .... even if I did the right thing, ....I still felt like a heel

Just to show you the kind of impact this can have on kids, ....I took him and his buddy down to the river last year, ....guess what, ...caught another bass, ....in season this time, .....out of the blue he say's, ...you letting this one go too.....he's 20 yrs old now, .....and he still remembered.....(he laughed after, ...but)

I questioned my decision for quite awhile afterwards, and it might have been one of the reasons I got out fishing for a long while..... :wink:

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