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Halloween ScubaBoard Get Together- Hunt or not to Hunt
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onfloat:
Don't be a perv LOL, dusk is the best time anyways WC...don't suppose you have a boat? =)
sea nmf:
Why not debate? It's a good natured debate, everyone is entitled to their opinions, let's hear yours.
ch0ppersrule
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i have to agree with MilitantMedic: "everybody is entitled to their opinion even if they're wrong". That is my favorite saying when my friends and I talk politics and other great debatable subjects. Have fun diving this weekend. My daughter and friends are taking me out for my b-day.
Happy B-day! Note: I did not say "..even if they're wrong." Just to prevent any confusion.
ch0ppersrule
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Thank you. I always add the "even if they're wrong" just to get a bigger kick out of the situation.
discrepancy
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OK. Since you invited it, let's debate. Here's a quote from another current thread elsewhere on this board. It started off with a discussion about aggressive behavior by triggerfish, and finished up with this inspirational insight from a spearfisherman:MilitantMedic:
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Originally Posted by Wreck
If you want to risk breaking a knife trying to cut through that dragonscale hide of theirs... The last time I had one on a stringer, I ran it in the gill and out the mouth. It was biting it's way up my stringer for the remainder of that dive. I found it amusing, but caused some respect. I've never seen any other type of local fish do this.
This doesn't sound to me like a genuine hunting sportsman who understands and respects his quarry. One of the points I made on that thread was that divers get to know their local fish very well and come to see them as fellow travelers. Sometimes a very special friendly old fish becomes a personal favourite of the local divers over a period of years. Then, one day, along comes some gung-ho spearfisherman who kills the friendly old bugger. How on Earth do you think local divers are going to react? They react badly, just as most of us do when we see people with their trousers rolled up strip-mining the shallows for starfish, urchins, small fry and anything else that moves, all to throw into the pot for a bowl of fish soup that night.
Obviously divers and spearo's all love the sea, otherwise we would spend so much time in it. But, spearfishermen would do themselves a great service by emphasising the sporting side of what they're doing, and ridding themselves of their image as underwater vandals who wreck things for everyone else.
The guy who recently broke some record by spearing a 300kg marlin (or whatever it was) in New Zealand and was dragged for three hours into the middle of the Tasman Sea in the process was obviously an accomplished sportsman. He and his fellows got a huge kick out of it, and all at the cost of one marlin. Fair enough. But, shooting fish in a barrel with scuba at a popular local dive site is a different thing.
Have I hijacked this thread? Probably, but you started it.
I have never heard of anyone having an image of UW hunters as vandals. How is a marlin different than a trigger fish? I don't know why anyone would want to eat trigger is but that is there choice. Most of the guys that hunt that I know are very selective about what they shoot. They only want one or two kinds of fish.
Im not sure hunting off of the sea tiger is a good thing though.
Im not sure hunting off of the sea tiger is a good thing though.
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