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Except, you can legally hunt crows...


Jag sure does eat a lot of crow on this forum..... he shouldnt of made that mistake lol

I dont like essentially unrestricted predation on game I'm not typically allowed to be a predator of.

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Bull sharks kill a lot of breeder size red drum in the NC sounds but we don't go killing them. I'd say they are much more of a threat to humans than hammerheads are on the average.

Cut the line on the Tarpon ? let the fish get away if you're concerned about the shark killing it , nah , that wouldn't get the good video footage they wanted .

I would agree, and believe you are spot on with that assertion, Sir.

Interesting, the way I understood it the heads of hammerheads are designed for a cruise fairly close to the bottom picking up the electromagnetic signals of prey, you wouldn’t think of them so much is something that chases down free swimming fish at the top.

Makes me wonder what sort of cues an exhausted stressed out and struggling tarpon might put out, it seems like the shark would have little chance of catching a healthy free-swimming tarpon.

You can thank the government and Texas for the shark problems. In 1979 I got a grant through NOAA to shark fish and around 20 years later NMFS closed commercial fishing for large coastal sharks. And now Texas has made it illegal to transport shark meat through the state without the fins still attached to Mexico. So catching black tips and spinner sharks aren't worth the effort, and the fresh shark meat market at Publix and Wind Dixie is nonexistent because of the political pressure from the dogooders. I caught a really big greater hammer head years and just the dorsal fin was worth over $250. Between the sharks and jewfish - goliath grouper you can't hardly bottom fish inshore. And the sandbars and bull sharks have made live baiting kingfish off Jupiter in the spring a shark feeding frenzy.

Sharks do as nature intended them to do. They are not evil. They are not brainless killing machine. They are an important part of nature. If you want to take one for the meat and it is legal to do so, have at it. But to kill it simply to kill it simply is not right. I feel the same way about snakes, for the most part they will always get a pass from me. I watched the video the OP put up. You have a guy saying "I have to save this tarpon's life" but he wasn't willing to cut the line. If he really gave a damn about the tarpon, cut it. The fact they kept it hooked while the shark was after it shows they cared more about the video than the tarpon. The shark wasn't the bad guy in that video, the angler was if you cared about the tarpon.

Jag-
How many sharks have you killed?

How often do you kill sharks?

How often are you on the ocean?

We used to be able to just go shoot them.

Now they are more on footing with game birds like ducks and doves.

Ej considers that putting trash birds on such a pedistle is a moot point, as he does Zero being an anti 2A traitor.

It's just not important to the high IQ crew.

Thank you! As an almost lifelong sport fisherman in FL, that video darn near made me want to puke or punch the loudmouth talking. Like you said, if he really wanted to "save that tarpon's life", he'd have cut the line like I and many friends have on fish over the years. It's just what you do. I've seen guys cut the line on big tarps while in a tournament.

The dumb phugk in this video is full of schit, and is no sportsman. Just trying to hype his dumbass video.

NOT when they're attached to 80-150 lb leader, 40-60 lb running line, and a rod the size of a pool cue or broomstick on the other end.