Chris, I have a video of someone catching a huge ling cod that ate a 5 lb. rock bass that was being reeled in. The cod was not hooked. He just would not let go. It does happen. Legal?
My second sailfish 2 years ago slipped a legal mouth-hooking but wound up getting belly-hooked. That's a foul in IGFA. But I did land/release him. DonO And the debait goes on.... ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 12:28 PM Subject: RE: [VFB] My first legal Halibut....maybe > > > 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 > > >
