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Trophy Catch-22: Angler's Record-Breaking Trout Can't Be a Record
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| 01/20/15
| Ben Romans
Posted on 01/22/2015 11:54:14 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
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posted on
01/22/2015 11:56:15 AM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
Tecnically it may be an ocean run steelhead
To: AngelesCrestHighway
I don’t consider them Bows till they start showing color. Until then, Steelhead.
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posted on
01/22/2015 12:00:08 PM PST
by
VRWCarea51
(The original 1998 version)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
You expect anyone to believe that that fish just swam from the Pacific?
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posted on
01/22/2015 12:02:14 PM PST
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: smokingfrog
Good illustration what what happens once the government gets involved.
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Gees...you can’t even weigh a fish anymore without breaking some bureaucratic regulation.
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posted on
01/22/2015 12:04:37 PM PST
by
econjack
(I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
While DuPont believes Warrens fish was indeed a trout, the fact that the angler released the fish before weighing it on a certified scale bars the fish from record consideration. But, according to DuPont, Warren didnt have a choicethe fish had an unclipped adipose fin, indicating that it was wild, and anglers must release all wild Clearwater rainbows and steelhead.
Moreover, Idaho maintains specific guidelines on the catch-and-release handling of wild fish. One of the stipulations is that anglers cant hang wild fish from a scale.
...at least they didn't charge him for taking the picture.
To: AngelesCrestHighway
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posted on
01/22/2015 12:11:01 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: TexasCajun
Fish and game regs are as out of control as Obozo is.
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posted on
01/22/2015 12:13:03 PM PST
by
exnavy
(Got ammo, Godspeed.)
Donate
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posted on
01/22/2015 12:21:56 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: smokingfrog
You should see the Steelhead trout.
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posted on
01/22/2015 12:23:36 PM PST
by
mylife
To: AngelesCrestHighway
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posted on
01/22/2015 12:24:06 PM PST
by
mylife
To: smokingfrog
Steelhead
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posted on
01/22/2015 12:26:53 PM PST
by
mylife
To: mylife
We’re gonna need a bigger frying pan!
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posted on
01/22/2015 12:36:58 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: mylife
Your wife has man hands........LOL!
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posted on
01/22/2015 12:37:30 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(I'm a man of no-color and proud of it.)
To: Hot Tabasco
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posted on
01/22/2015 12:38:20 PM PST
by
mylife
To: smokingfrog
☺
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posted on
01/22/2015 12:39:05 PM PST
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mylife
To: SJackson
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posted on
01/22/2015 12:41:01 PM PST
by
randita
(Obama entrusted the transformation of the best healthcare system in the world to a scam artist.)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
“Essentially, the mandatory-release regulation counteracts the record-book weight rule,” DuPont says. “That almost prevents any wild rainbows from the Clearwater from ever being considered a record. Its a catch-22.”
Then the current record holders name should be stricken
from the record and it should be established that there
is no official record of the largest Rainbow Trout because
it is legally unobtainable.
Or the current record holder should be prosecuted.
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posted on
01/22/2015 12:46:26 PM PST
by
Slambat
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