Monster Shark Tournament - Forgot about these

[Team Fountain "Mary Sea"]

All well and good for her to turn up her nose at her place on the food chain, and no one wants to see cruelty. But meat is food and it didn't look like any meat was going to waste. Fish are protein and a lot of fun to catch!!! It was still a free country last time I checked.

[LuckyLady]

It's real easy to go off on these ignorant, vocal minority, elitist, need to get a real job, tofu eaters on this web site and everyone will agree with you.

I hate to say it, but PETA goes out and catches us fishermen at our worst moments (usually hanging fish) and make us look like blood thursty thugs who relish the killing of fish as bloodsport. We don't look good in this light, but it's also not even close to an accurate representation...The people behaving goofy and shouting are the people surrounding the the weigh in, not the fishermen.

I see no footage of sharks being released or tagged and I know most fishermen feel the same mixed emotion I do about killing and hanging a fish, in 99% of the cases I really prefer to release fish, especially Sharks.

Fact is we release 95% (plus) of our fish, usually with tags that provide vital statistical data.

Unless we go land on their web site and make our points, these ignorant, self righteous CAMERA THUGS will cause problems for all fishermen...I think we should go to www.peta.org and post detailed information about fisheries and make them respond to the real issues or get lost. They don't have a clue about fisheries management, won't respond, then we can promote they don't live up to their own lofty moral standard...Case closed, these Hollywooders hate bad reviews...

If they are not willing to come to the Hawaiian Islands and stop single longliners 300 miles out that kill hundreds of 500 lb. Thresher Sharks in a couple of sets and discard them, or the by catch & finning operations all over the world that kill hundreds of thousands of sharks period then they're just another Hollywood puppet show. They need to address the real issue of commercial entities depleting the oceans biomass, right now sportfishermen are the only group who care about the REAL problem.

Hey I agree with not throwing live animals (on the court or ice) at sporting events, drugged up animal mascots and not having Polar Bears in 12 x 12 cages at shoping malls in Florida. This is what PETA is good at and they should stick to their area of expertise.

End of Rant from HI...Going Thresher fishing tonight hopefully...Weather permiting.

They are lobbing the wrong people and places

[sjogren]

Those vids were fine w/o volume!
It's nice to see my home port during warmer times.
Right now I'm the only fool still on a mooring, gotta haul that thing soon.