RE: [VFB] My first legal Halibut....maybe

[Chris . Broomell]

Nicely done.

under your definition  

your hook + fish's mouth = "catch"

this fish wouldn't have been caught.....

I do not think that this can be a complete equation...the definition of
catch doesn't implicitly or explicitly say that something is only caught if
it is siezed or captured according to the original intent (i.e. having the
fish take my fly in it's mouth).  By definition 1a...the fish was still
caught.

What about a fish that is landed because it ate the fish that had originally
taken the fly....I've heard of it happening (this may be a sub-urban
legend....)?


Can anyone else refute this?  


Chris