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Would You Release Your Biggest Striped Bass

                                                            Pablo 50 lbs Bass
The Boat Guys I fish with treat the fish with the UT most respect. On June 24 2008 I sailed
with this one guy the current  NY state record holder for striped bass. He
asked us before we left the dock. What are you gonna do if you catch a cow?? I’m
not talking 30 lbs he said? “I’m talking 40 or even 50 lbs”? “There’s a lot of
BIG FISH around and You might be the Lucky angler to catch a True Trophy Fish
tonight”. I thought about it for the whole trip out. I wasn’t sure what I would
do at that time I was chasing the 50 lbs club like everyone else…
I dropped my live porgie down and BAM I got 1 a huge hit line Peeled off the rod like I had
the Bottom. The mate said you hooked the bottom and I said NO I DIDN’T!!! as the rod began to bounce up and down. Adrenaline rushed over me I knew this was a BIG FISH. I remember as clear as day when she came up to the surface and I saw her this was the BIGGEST STRIPED BASS I EVER SAW…
Would You Release your Biggest Fish??? by Capt.Paul Peluso
Oh God Please,Please,PLEASE let me land her. She didn’t make another run other
than the 2 she made when I 1st hooked her and she swam right into the net. So there I was I
had my TROPHY COW BASS get the camera I
said make sure the Flash is on and He says “Pablo what do you want to do with
it”? I snapped the pictures and couldn’t believe I said this “LET IT GO”. No,
someone said but at that moment something came over me, I fished so hard and so
long to finally catch the one and here it was in my hands after what must have
been thousand fish. I finally got one, I FINALLY GOT 1!!! I had to put her back,
He said “well you better do it fast before its to late” I looked at the 1 time
world record holder and said “Let’s put her back”.

 

48.5" 50 lbs Striped Bass

He has a special door on the side of his boat especially built in for wheel chair handicapped. I got my thumbs in her mouth and lowered her into the water. He put the boat in forward and
started to move.
I think it was my good friend Carlos started taken pictures and there I was
hanging out of a boat dragging a 50 lbs class fish by her mouth. We dragged her for a little bit and He said “Pablo you had her out to long bring her in its too late. NO I SAID! A
little longer she started to kick. I wasn’t gonna let her float away you got to fight baby come on you can do it. I was actually routing for the fish to pull away out of my hands. She jerked but it wasn’t enough to escape my grasp then she woke up and made like 3 twitches with her head and I watched her swim back down into the deep from where she came. We actually waited to see if she might float back up but
she never did and I was so stoked I couldn’t have felt better about releasing her. Later my cousin said why you do that? I said I had, to it wasn’t right I kill a fish like that she lived so long maybe she’ll make some more big cows for my kids to catch. He said your crazy I would have never let her go. I told him how it felt the RELEASE felt better
than the catch. He still said It would have came home with me… I said its a
tough decision until you hold one in your hands then its your decision to Let it
go. To this day I still have no regrets about it and I’m glad I did release her.
any of you recognize the Captain in the picture?

Would you Release a 50 ???
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