Quote Originally Posted by mems View Post
Predators are oportunistic and will hunt the weakened fish, picture or not. Some places just don't have that many predators and they can recover in relative safety. Like flats on Oahu. I feel bad when they get munched, but it is part of the food chain, and that is what happens. They would eat them if we were not fishing as well, we just make it easier sometimes. Mems.

100% on the money !

The only comforting thing about it is .... in the Ocean , NOTHING goes to waste .

Don - a Friend in Australia relates a story .... He's on a rock , and hooks a smallish- Ballion's Dart (kind of like a Gafftopsail Pompano) of a couple of pounds - a garbage-can-sized G.T. comes up underneath it and sucks down the Dart , wire bite tippet , and a foot or two of leader . My Friend pointed the rod at the G.T. and broke it off before it knew it was hooked , so He could save his shooting head/runner/reel/rod .

Brutal world out there in the deep Blue .....

David