Catch and release is so stupid. Eat the damn things

Gosh it’s life mate! If you can’t deal with it stop fishing

Ridiculous.

1st and foremost fck the haters 😡 2nd everything dies. One of the best lessons I ever learned, was during taking my Wardens test. Question; you're out fishing and have gotten your limit, then you get a bleeder. What do you do? This was an A-D multiple choice. I was later told that over 95% of applicants get this one wrong, because they feel it's a shame to let it go to waste..... "Nothing in nature that dies, goes to waste" Fish on 🦈

Hey bubba don't sweat it that happens sometimes I accidentally brained an almost plate sized bluegill one time I thought it was ok but when he swam off he started going around in circles

it's a protection mechanism like an octopus and ink

I,m. Sad 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

" with I didnt even touch his gills" Brooo SOMEBODY DID 😂😂😂 Bleeding from gills equals fucked fish . Shoulda cooked it 😂😂😂

Time of the month

..this is not for you, you seem to be an honest respectable guy. But all these postings of people releasing their huge catches, or any catch are making people out like me who are like 50/50 catch/release out to look unsportsmanlike like when it is totally legal to keep the fish you legally catch. Me personally, any fish I decide to take I eat. See I'm doing it myself, if I want or if people want to hang it above the fire that's our perogative also! I wish their wolud be more fisherman shown fishing that keep them.

Hes done for.... keep him

Why not just eat the fish?

Eat it

Dude, if you hung around for 5 mins and didn't see him floating on the surface then he was fine.

Dinner

its almost like if you left him alone in the first place he wouldnt be bleeding out. and for what.... sport? time for a new hobby "men"

Line

Let's face it. it's for content.

Lost many Trout due to lactic acid buildup, learned not to fish when the water is too warm.

trout have to be one of the hardest fish to keep alive

I have the upmost respect for you for doing catch and release and actually caring about the fish. I too feel bad when such a large beautiful mature animal, fish included die for no other purpose than man’s amusement. This obviously was not the case with you, you admired and respected this fish and felt empathy towards it. I don’t know much about fishing but it seems like it could be fairly easy to hook a fish the wrong way and it’s out of your control.

I mean, what do you expect to happen after hooking it and pulling it over and over towards you?

Napoleon Dynamite.

Fish are resilient in cold water due to slowed metabolic rate. She’s fine!

It's having it's peareyd 😂

I’m not trying to be that guy, but I just don’t understand the point of releasing a trout if it’s big enough to keep, I read your comment and all that but I thought people fish for them to harvest them since they are a delicious meal and since it was bleeding out a lot, wouldn’t it have been better to keep it?

Probably got him in the tongue. Unfortunately, that usually means eagle food. If it makes you feel better he'll feed another animal or become biomass that feeds insects etc.. Something will benefit.

Thats when you break out the plates ,forks and 🔪 dig in

Dinner....

It happens my man. Had a huge day up in the high country a few weeks ago and had one take my fly deep. Used my smallest hemos and tried to get him back but was bleeding too bad. I gave him to a family I saw down the lake.

If it's legal size EAT IT 😂 stop being a beta, sport fishing is basically torturing a fish for fun so put it out of its misery and save on groceries.

Stressing an animal for fun. How human of you.

I don't understand anyone who can fish simply to throw it back. If it's the law. Don't fish. Humans are cruel. Fish might not feel it, but you're being violent to another creature for fun. Fact.

It’s just shock it happens

It happens no need to beat your self up avout it

He may of bashed his self on a rock 🪨

Oh well keep and eat, no harm done

Eat it, humans usually do, but don't mess with bear food

JESUS IS KING , AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN

Sometimes shit happens man, can't be perfect 100% of the time, at least you are not being disrespectful to nature. Tough luck brother

Sometimes this happens when the fish is in a lot of stress. I think that’s why.

It could be a possibility that the poor thing was under a lot of stress, even though you respectfully handled it ,it just happens, but Fish are remarkable healers❤❤

I hate when people act like there tough because of where they live

Catch & release doesn't mean they always survive. It's sad but it happens.

Why didn't you take it with you? Woul've been a great meal

thats what happens when you put a hook in an animals mouth and drag it out of the water. It gets hurt.

dude it happens man you showed you cared and tried thats what matters

Tell her it's salmon and eat it.

Just stop doing catch an release. If the lake has plenty of fish, just get one for dinner and hit the road If there aren't plenty. Just don't fish at all. Stop abusing animals for your entertainment. Pike an trout fight till total exhaustion in panic. This is only responsible for getting food, not for fun in my opinion. 🤷‍♂️

Its a fish, not a living being with a soul. God himself ate fish when He walked this earth. Yeah you hooked him incorrectly and yeah you feel bad, but its a fish and meant for food as Christ intended.