Would it count...?

[Oblickta]

In a boat competition (any one) would it count if a fish \"got off the hook\" after it spat it\'s bladder and you picked it off the surface or does it have to be hooked when landed

 

[Codfather]

Tricky one
If I was out fishing with mates I would give them it, but not sure about comp rules.

 

[IanW]

I would say it would not count.

If it spat and landed on the deck then it would count.

Then again i don\'t fish many matches and the few fish I have seen drop off at the surface have normally been away before you could do anything.

 

[TC]

\"........... the few fish I have seen drop off at the surface have normally been away before you could do anything.\"

Hmmmm.........sounds familiar........and I can vouch for that statement :casstet: :casstet:..........lol

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Just like a shore comp ,if you play it to the shore and it spits the hook yet you land it anyway then it counts ...or at least I hope it does as it\'s happened to me lol.

 

[Mike.Haley]

Ive fished quite a few boat comps and the only time anything like that happened the fish landed on the deck of the boat so it counted.

 

[willywetegg]

I am not a boat fisherman but I am baffled by this. Surely if you manage to get the fish onto the boat then you have \"landed\" it.

I couldn\'t see a problem with that if it happened on the shore so why should it be a problem on the boat.

Please let me know if I am wrong though.

Jim.

 

[Mike.Haley]

Jim, I understand Graham to mean the fish was collected from the surface of the water. As I said the only time I have seen it happen, the fish landed on the deck of the boat. I have never seen a fish retrieved from the water in the way graham described.

 

[mark]

Ahh, but what if it spits the hook and is floating on the water, and then some one else on the boat tries to hook the moribund creature by hoying a string of daylights at it and lands it onto the boat???

 

[willywetegg]

Sorry Mike but what I meant was.

If you hook a fish and it comes off your hook on the surface and you m,anage to retrieve it by hand, where is the problem.

I am not aware (or correct) about the same thing happening from the shore being a problem.

The rules for shore angling don\'t mention anything to do with that, that I have read. Come to that I have never read anything to do with boat angling that entertains that problem either.

What I thought was, as long as you play the fish it is ok. No mention of rod OR hand.

Jim.

 

[Mike.Haley]

Your right Jim, I cant find anything in any rules about that situation and have never personally came across it. Sometimes when shark or big game fishing abroad the skipper only has to touch the leader and the fish is considered landed so I should,nt see any problem with what Graham is saying.