Trolled up a thresher on Friday...

[scratchinbottom]

Congrats on a good day on the water. As food for thought, did you think about perhaps letting a foul-hooked fish swim especially as you did not have what you felt to be a clean harpoon shot? In hunting this is more common (should ALWAYS happen, but clearly doesn't), but throwing the poon is basically the same as pulling the trigger. Up to this point you are dealing with a fish that will survive, after probably not. If the story ended up with that harpoon pulling how different would the story be? Why don't we view a mortally wounded fish that we fail to retrieve the same as a trophy animal? Should we?

Not meant in any way as an attack, I just tend to muse on outdoor ethics too much and thought it was worth bringing up.

Ben

Ben, good point but it was one of those things that you kind of had to be there. As with hunting or throwing poons, you always run the risk of killing the animal and not being able to recover it. It's part of the sport. I've tracked deer for 12 hours and come back to the same spot the next day only to find it a few hundred yards away. Jackson is a sniper with the harpoon and he hit that fish square. It was the best shot he could take and he planted that dart. We tried ripping it out at the dock but were forced to cut it out. We decided to take the fish after the second jump. It's what you work for and there's nothing wrong with taking a chance and coming home with a trophy. And the shark scampi was delicious!

[hookedoncostarica]

Great report and Picture!