Dying for a picture.

[Guest tigger]

To be fair on the Anglers who caught this fish, the fish popping it's cloggs may not have had anything to do with them.

Maybe it was just one of those things and it's number was up.

On the other hand it may have been deep hooked and may have a hook or two in it's gut. You should have done your own post mortem on it and see if you could spot anything what could have killed it.

 

 

Tigger.

[Peter Waller]

Tis true Tigger, but there was no sign of any tackle, visable or lumps. Yes, I might be wrong, but something killed an apparently fit fish. And she certainly was not an old fish.

[Andrew Burgess]

Could it be something to do with the water? ie concaminated? or being in a long battle with an angler and was release too early? It could be a number of things. Once again a very sad end for a pike over 20lbs

[Guest Ferret1959]

Taxidermy, yip taxidermy that's the way to go.

 

 

Saves all that setting up cameras and getting yer mate to take the shot.

 

You might get a deep hooked fish on one of the other 6 or 7 rods that are out unattended. ;)

[DJMCJERICO]

Do i dare suggest it.............

 

Bumped on the noggin so nobody else could beat it when she grew

[zenith10]

what a shame to lose a fine specimen

[Dick Dastardly]

No thats a daft sugestion totaly unfounded.

 

Peter says that some one saw the fish being photoed and being kept out of the water for an exessive amount of time.This cant help.

 

Saddest thing of all is as Peter said the captor most likely is none the wiser,happily thinking the fish swam off ok.......

 

How many of the fish we return does this happen to.................

 

Got to acept mortalities but should always do our utmost to prevent them and keeping them out for drawn out weighing and photo sessions aint the way.

[Paul Boote]

Saddest thing of all is as Peter said the captor most likely is none the wiser,happily thinking the fish swam off ok.......

 

How many of the fish we return does this happen to.................

 

Got to acept mortalities but should always do our utmost to prevent them and keeping them out for drawn out weighing and photo sessions aint the way.

 

Well said, Budg'

 

That's why I did what I did some years ago, after taking some fantastically juicy pics (well, my girlfriend of the time did) of me with a 20-plus-pound sea-trout (the first, it subsequently turned out, of many) during my Southern South American travels. We found the fish dead, several hundred yards downstream, the next day. And I thought, "So what?" (NOT about the sad, fishy body, but for what, in my desire for "immortality", I had done).

Edited March 28, 2006 by Paul Boote

[paul mc]

Sad loss of a fine specimen but its not taking the photos that kills the fish its the idiots that take them and handle the fish inapropriatley. I verry rarely weigh any fish i catch but do take a lot of pictures(if everyting is already set then it ony takes a couple of seconds to get a good shot) for personal use only and to my knowledge all have gone back non the worse for the experience.

[Dick Dastardly]

You are quite correct Paul Mc.Nothing wrong with taking a photo just got to be sensible.

 

I can relate to what Paul B says though.Your values change rapidly once the realisation of what your actions have caused dawns on you.

 

Trouble is that to to many dont acept it.