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www.keepemwet.org/#home

Nice fish. Check this site out for proper catch and release practices.

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There have been two people who posted on my catch and release tactics so I guess I will clarify this. I should have put this in my original post but please look closely at my fish where the lure is in its mouth. You will notice there is no line connected to the lure. Why, because I had the fish in the water and while I was reaching down with my hemostats to remove the hook. The fish shook its head and popped my line. So, I had two choices, let the fish swim off with my plug still in its mouth, or grab it and lay it on shore. You'll notice the foam line in the picture because the fish is 6" from the edge of the stream. At that point its already on shore so I took a picture of it. I normally don't remove trout from the water I reach down and unhook them in the water. I will lay a fish on the snow once in a while like I did the other day and take a picture. I know how to handle fish, I know about their slime coat and I know how to tail and revive them. So, thanks for the advice but now you know the whole story. I will go back to lurking because its obviously not worth posting pics. And yes it was caught in Jersey!

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Very nice fish!

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ARush great fish and I know you personally so my comments were just ball bustin as you know. It amazing how many great browns are swimming in our waters and the state still hasn't fixed the hatchery so they can stock them again and create even more waters with them thriving.
You sure you didnt kick that fish back into the water !! Oops I did it again 😁

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No I didn't kick it but I did squeeze it really hard...........:eek:

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People will instinctively think you are not good at CnR judging off photos.

Alternatively I can thwomp the fish on the ground and cover it with dirt before rinsing it all off and taking a pic of the fish in a net and no one will know. :eek:

Don't let it deter you from posting in the future.

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Congrats! Nice colors on the biggun!!

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Beautiful fish! No reason to explain yourself and stop posting just because of a couple of people have to put in their two cents and try to tell other people what to do.

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nice PA troutz.

p.s. those fish are all dead, they were caught on a treble hooked plug, touched the air, and then touched the ground, you're a murderer...nice catching though.

please see this site for proper fish handling: www.PETA.com

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Nice Chris
Thanks for the PETA link
From now on I'm just gonna kill em and grill em and every can kiss my ass, lol