Catch and release system

[Mouldz]

We are having a 3 day deepsea comp over Dec and in the past the club has not practiced catch and release but this year in order to secure big sponsors it has to be c&r,the method they proposing is that each guy has 4 coloured bands on his wrist,when a fish is caught he will radio base they will give which colour combo to use in the photo and they will write down all the info,to me this seems a bit complicated as you can imagine 100 plus anglers all trying to radio in their catches.

What method do you guys use?

 

[Simen]

MOULDIE wrote:

We are having a 3 day deepsea comp over Dec and in the past the club has not practiced catch and release but this year in order to secure big sponsors it has to be c&r,the method they proposing is that each guy has 4 coloured bands on his wrist,when a fish is caught he will radio base they will give which colour combo to use in the photo and they will write down all the info,to me this seems a bit complicated as you can imagine 100 plus anglers all trying to radio in their catches.

What method do you guys use?

Dont quiet understand,

does it mean you are only allowed to catch 4 fish each?

How does the rubberband and the fish get together. I mean I could catch 5 Dorado for example

Or am I missing something here.

 

 

 

[Enigma]

Each day you have a different coloured rubber wrist band allocated and the angler releasing the fish must have the band visible for the release of the fish and for verifying that the fish was caught on that day

This is the best method and the colours are not made know before the comp and are issued on the morning of each day's angling and the competitors can even be split into groups for the day and each group or boat assigned a random colour

Best used with a measuring mat of the comp along with the wrist band

This is the easiest control measure to put into play so that accurate accounts of the day's catch without fish being killed. used at the recent Sodwana comp where 132 bill fish were released and only 6 taken and an successful tournament was hosted

 

[peks@mweb.co.za]

MOULDIE wrote:

We are having a 3 day deepsea comp over Dec and in the past the club has not practiced catch and release but this year in order to secure big sponsors it has to be c&r,the method they proposing is that each guy has 4 coloured bands on his wrist,when a fish is caught he will radio base they will give which colour combo to use in the photo and they will write down all the info,to me this seems a bit complicated as you can imagine 100 plus anglers all trying to radio in their catches.

What method do you guys use?

Not complicated at all. Use the same method in Struisbaai Two Oceans Marlin Comp !

 

[Mouldz]

Simen wrote:

MOULDIE wrote:

We are having a 3 day deepsea comp over Dec and in the past the club has not practiced catch and release but this year in order to secure big sponsors it has to be c&r,the method they proposing is that each guy has 4 coloured bands on his wrist,when a fish is caught he will radio base they will give which colour combo to use in the photo and they will write down all the info,to me this seems a bit complicated as you can imagine 100 plus anglers all trying to radio in their catches.

What method do you guys use?

Dont quiet understand,

does it mean you are only allowed to catch 4 fish each?

How does the rubberband and the fish get together. I mean I could catch 5 Dorado for example

Or am I missing something here.

 

 

Also did not quite understand till Enigma cleared it up a little,the way I understood was that each crew will get 4 diff colour bands ,when you radio in the base will tell you which colour combination to put on wrist and then take photo with bands visible in picture .i.e. your first fish will be blue and red band ,second fish yellow and red and so forth .

 

[benniejordaan]

What happens is you have 4 colours, say red, blue, green and orange. You then radio your hook up and they then give you a combination. Example. blue and orange. Then you have the blue and orange cards (or band in this case) in the pic. Next fish may be red/orange and so on. This gives you many combinations.

Red
blue
green
orange
red/blue
red/green
red/ordange

etc.