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Old 05-07-2019, 09:27 PM
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Default Re: Don't be that guy Stop using Gaff and throwing back the fish almost dead!

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Originally Posted by Merle31483 View Post
Especially now people who catch these "trophy" bass now the reason they are that big is because they are the spawning females full of eggs I myself striper fish mostly every night or every other I have caughten tons of bass already since the last week of March and only kept 1 to eat for my family every other fish I have caught ranging from 15 to 25 pounds has successively been gafed in the lower jaw and released to swim away again from the original poster if you gaff a fish try to gaff it in the lower lip so you do no harm to let her swim away for another day
There is ABSOLUTELY no reason to need to lip gaff a bass..
released fish should not be harmed in any way.
put your hand in its mouth NOT a gaff.

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