tvhosts, I'm not directing this at you, I dont know anything about the tournement you are talking about, but, I'm bothered a little with big money tournaments and I was just curious how other people felt.

I'm not bothered as much by the big game tournaments where they catch measure and tag the fish and release them, but in many instances they are catch and kill tournaments. Now, even bass tournaments they turn them loose, but there has to be a certain mortality rate that goes into them, and then what about spring time when they are spawning. You pull them off there spawing bed just to release them somewhere else in the lake miles away from where you caught them. Maybe the marlin are abuntant enough to support a tournament where the biggest ones killed. I know for Steelhead and Salmon Its good to turn loose the biggest ones to keep the gene pool strong, although this is tough to do sometimes, I would think that big game fish are the same.

Fishing to me is pleasure and bringing in the competition aspect brings out the worst in some people and cant be very good for the fish.

I maybe full of krap here but just thought I'd throw my two cents in. thanks

[ 09-06-2001: Message edited by: Pickled Herring ]