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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: Hunterman on August 28, 2013, 04:38:49 PM

Title: When to Keep A Fowl Hooked Fish?
Post by: Hunterman on August 28, 2013, 04:38:49 PM: Lets say that you are fishing for humpies down on the Puyallup River, and having one real good time with family and friends :tup: ( I knew it is far fetched as I typed it) ou have a few fish on the bank, and someone in your group fowl hooks a fish. Y'all get it in and its bleeding like a stuck pig (ok fish). The hook is just under the pec. fin in the heart area. Its going to die before it spawns. Do you,,

1. Go ahead and throw it back in and let it die? (yes I know, its going to die anyway)
2. Keep it, put it on your punch card.

Remember that this fish was not snagged, it was fowl hooked.

Hunterman(Tony)
Title: Re: When to Keep A Fowl Hooked Fish?
Post by: crazysccrmd on August 28, 2013, 04:41:12 PM: I generally keep fish that would otherwise die if released. Kept a pretty small large mouth the other day because it manage to hook all three trebles in the back of the throat.
Title: Re: When to Keep A Fowl Hooked Fish?
Post by: Button Nubbs on August 28, 2013, 04:41:47 PM: Keep it if you wanna risk that kind of ticket for a humpy.
Title: Re: When to Keep A Fowl Hooked Fish?
Post by: Smossy on August 28, 2013, 04:43:38 PM: Throw it on shore for the birds to eat, Then atleast its not a complete waste.
Title: Re: When to Keep A Fowl Hooked Fish?
Post by: bear hunter on August 28, 2013, 04:43:49 PM: bleed the fish and gut it. The fowl hook makes are now gone. At least your not wasting it.
Title: Re: When to Keep A Fowl Hooked Fish?
Post by: Smossy on August 28, 2013, 04:45:14 PM: Yeah I guess you could even go as far as to filleting it out. Ive seen it done a few times. Not sure if that's legal though.
Title: Re: When to Keep A Fowl Hooked Fish?
Post by: lewy on August 28, 2013, 04:45:27 PM: Do what ur gut tells you to do, its usually the right thing........but yes that would be a hefty ticket for a humpy
Title: Re: When to Keep A Fowl Hooked Fish?
Post by: Button Nubbs on August 28, 2013, 04:48:48 PM: Just want to add that not all fish that are bleeding will die.
Title: Re: When to Keep A Fowl Hooked Fish?
Post by: Button Nubbs on August 28, 2013, 04:49:38 PM: And that all Puyallup fish are technically "foul" hooked :twocents:
Title: Re: When to Keep A Fowl Hooked Fish?
Post by: Hunterman on August 28, 2013, 04:50:58 PM: Kind of puts a person between a rock and a hard place.

Hunterman(Tony)
Title: Re: When to Keep A Fowl Hooked Fish?
Post by: Rick on August 28, 2013, 08:42:16 PM: Quote from: Smossy on August 28, 2013, 04:43:38 PM
Throw it on shore for the birds to eat, Then atleast its not a complete waste.

The nutrients of a dead fish are more beneficial in the river than on the bank.

Leaving a fish on the bank is a good way to get a ticket for waste.
Title: Re: When to Keep A Fowl Hooked Fish?
Post by: dreamunelk on August 28, 2013, 08:44:49 PM: Take the hook and leave it in the water. Nothing really goes to waste in nature. Bother me but, that is the way it is. It is not worth the ticket. If the wardens let it slide then snagers would use the fowl hooked excuse.
Title: Re: When to Keep A Fowl Hooked Fish?
Post by: snowpack on August 28, 2013, 08:50:18 PM: Quote from: Rick on August 28, 2013, 08:42:16 PM
Quote from: Smossy on August 28, 2013, 04:43:38 PM
Throw it on shore for the birds to eat, Then atleast its not a complete waste.

The nutrients of a dead fish are more beneficial in the river than on the bank.

Leaving a fish on the bank is a good way to get a ticket for waste.
Kind of a mix from the bios I've talked to. They want the fish scattered around up above the bank, but want it done naturally. They toss the hatchery rejects in the river and say they want bear, coon, cougar, etc to drag and deposit carcasses up in the bushes and near trees.
Title: Re: When to Keep A Fowl Hooked Fish?
Post by: Smossy on August 29, 2013, 05:04:05 PM: Quote from: Button Nubbs on August 28, 2013, 04:48:48 PM
Just want to add that not all fish that are bleeding will die.
I know I've never died, and I've had some pretty serious bleeders. :chuckle:
Title: Re: When to Keep A Fowl Hooked Fish?
Post by: Smossy on August 29, 2013, 05:04:41 PM: Thumbs up for all the bloody ear shapes :chuckle:
Title: Re: When to Keep A Fowl Hooked Fish?
Post by: Alchase on August 29, 2013, 05:53:43 PM: Dude, you need sharper hooks!

LOL
Title: Re: When to Keep A Fowl Hooked Fish?
Post by: Alpine Mojo on August 30, 2013, 08:58:31 AM: Quote from: Hunterman on August 28, 2013, 04:38:49 PM
Remember that this fish was not snagged, it was fowl hooked.

If a game warden catches you keeping it, good luck.