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I live in Oregon and have been fishing for as long as I can remember. While I mostly fished for lake trout, we'd fish for salmon in the Columbia river during sa
by s5fs 5d ago
I live in Oregon and have been fishing for as long as I can remember. While I mostly fished for lake trout, we'd fish for salmon in the Columbia river during salmon season. During the off season (winter) I'd fish for sturgeon.
One year my buddy decided to get serious gear and fish for oversized sturgeon. This was purely catch-and-release, barbless hooks. We would sit on the edge of the shipping lanes because that was the deepest part of the river.
(incoming fisherman story)
One day we hooked a gigantic fish, we were in a 24 foot boat and I swear it was longer than that. We pulled it near the boat to unhook it and the thing was amazing! It was covered in battle scars from boat propellers or something, but the weirdest part was that it had a ton of fishing line hanging out of it's ass. Over the years it must've swallowed hooks and line, and it was just swimming around with literally feet of the stuff.
We retrieved our hook and watched it swim back into the depths. I never went oversized fishing after that, but it was incredible to think how old that fish was, what it had been through, etc.
- Razengan 5d agoPoor thing could it have been taken somewhere to have those hooks and threads removed?
- DidntUseIt 5d agoThey should have tried to communicate with it, learned its ways, and adopted its people
- ahazred8ta 5d ago"I should like to teach you the dance of my people" is from the Kikuyu fairy tale "The Warrior And The Irimũ".
- tyjen 5d agoUnfortunately, I imagine that procedure would significantly increase the probability of mortality, if not directly kill the fish.
- ornornor 5d agoEven better is to not put them there. How sadistic is it to rip the palate and mouth of a fish just for fun and put it back in the water?
- Razengan 5d agoHumans are full of cruelty, upon ourselves and other species "Recreational" fishing is just another one of our barbarisms
- DidntUseIt 5d agoI see what you did there (etymologically)
- Cpoll 4d agoNot etymologically related, just homophones; barb (from French) and barbarian (from Greek) have distinct roots.
- burner420042 5d agoColumbia River near the dam back in the 90s. A family friend was an underwater diver for the state doing repair work. Very low visibility and deep water along the dam face. He was working down there and something moved. The way he described it was 'I reached out and rested my hand on the wall. Then the whole wall moved, and swam away'.