2008 Mid-Atlantic $500,000 - MA500 Day 1 Coverage

[HOLWACHAGOT]

Originally Posted by sportfishingusa

I am with you on that one! it is completely differtent when your in the seat on the boat! lol

But someone please give me some info on the fish in their natural state. i couldnt sew a sharks mouth closed or their azz hole!! why can they sew shut a marlins mouth?!?!?

Surely not the first time you've seen a white's mouth wrapped shut on the way to the scales. Ever seen a gaff hole plugged up? This is big money and it can come down to half a pound meaning a lot of cash or no cash.

If you caught a white and it was the first day of the tourney are you saying you wouldn't grease it? Suppose you caught a little bigger one after that? You gonna let him go? Suppose you caught a third one even bigger than the first two? They are legal to keep...I would gaff em up.

Capt Say had some decent advice...Fillet the small one maybe if you knew 100 percent it was not a contender for one of the top three slots.

Suppose those boys had rolled in and their three fish were the top three slots? At the time they hooked and killed em NOONE was on the board. Later in the tourney, with numbers already up, the same group may have let them go. Who knows? I would have greased those pointy rascals were I in their shoes.

The coverage has been incredible ADMIN and crew. The live webcam is a notch above any I have ever seen. Looking forward to today's weigh ins.

Holwachagot

[sportfishingusa]

Originally Posted by HOLWACHAGOT

Surely not the first time you've seen a white's mouth wrapped shut on the way to the scales. Ever seen a gaff hole plugged up? This is big money and it can come down to half a pound meaning a lot of cash or no cash.

If you caught a white and it was the first day of the tourney are you saying you wouldn't grease it? Suppose you caught a little bigger one after that? You gonna let him go? Suppose you caught a third one even bigger than the first two? They are legal to keep...I would gaff em up.

Holwachagot

I am all for bringing 3 fish to the scales if need be and they are legal!! you got that right.. but i was asking the questin because i didnt think it was allowed.. you can not wrap a sharks jaws in a mako tourney.. you can not sew their anal canal shut... I know there is a lot of money and i have been in the tourneys but never had the chance to bring a white to the scales and i would wrap the mouth and such if it was legal.. i just thought they had to come in their natural state to the scales and that was illegal.. i didnt know i was just asking for some clarifications.

so you are saying it is okay to sew up or wrap up a mouth of a marlin in these tourneys? just a question i wanted an answer too!!

[HOLWACHAGOT]

Originally Posted by sportfishingusa

I am all for bringing 3 fish to the scales if need be and they are legal!! you got that right.. but i was asking the questin because i didnt think it was allowed.. you can not wrap a sharks jaws in a mako tourney.. you can not sew their anal canal shut... I know there is a lot of money and i have been in the tourneys but never had the chance to bring a white to the scales and i would wrap the mouth and such if it was legal.. i just thought they had to come in their natural state to the scales and that was illegal.. i didnt know i was just asking for some clarifications.

so you are saying it is okay to sew up or wrap up a mouth of a marlin in these tourneys? just a question i wanted an answer too!!

I think it is ok to wrap the leader around the mouth of the fish once it is cut/unsnapped from the mainline. Don't know about sewing. I have seen similar pictures of whites at the WMO so I assumed it was OK. I do not know for sure, but they are on the board. Hopefully someone else will chime in who actually knows the rules....Your question is a good one.
Holwachagot

[sportfishingusa]

Originally Posted by HOLWACHAGOT

I think it is ok to wrap the leader around the mouth of the fish once it is cut/unsnapped from the mainline. Don't know about sewing. I have seen similar pictures of whites at the WMO so I assumed it was OK. I do not know for sure, but they are on the board. Hopefully someone else will chime in who actually knows the rules....Your question is a good one.
Holwachagot

THANKS FOR THAT MAN!! I THINK WE WILL GET AN ANSWER FROM SOMEONE!! LOL

[Capt Say]

LOL

Would think that any attempt to tamper with the harvest in anyway would DQ it .... ? But I dunno for sure ..every tourney has Special rules that govern stuff like this, within IGFA rules it's a no-no i believe, but i don't support some practices that IGFA adheard by anyhoo , so i'm a bad one to answer this one

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