Your fish or mine?

[freddofrog]

Ok here’s a question, if you are fishing two rods, both of which are yours, you have chosen the type of terminal tackle you want to use (leaders, swivels, hooks, knot types etc..), you’ve tied everything, set the drag, baited it and cast it. If the fish self-hooks (think circle hooks) but your mate reels it in, whose fish it yours or his?

My thinking is you’ve done all the technical “stuff”, he’s just merely provided muscle power to wind her in, so by rights, it should be classified as your fish, not that I’m competitive mind you J .

What do you guys think?
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[ashh]

I get just as much of a buz watching a mate pull in a nice fish like I do getting my own. All beit on my own rods and reels I dont mind at all, but if he catches it, and decides to keep it, rulz are rulz and he must gut, scale and fillet it. I have rods setup for the 'occasional' fisherman, cheapish rods and reels but with the same terminal tackle I use on my good personal setups. If they were to bring there own gear I doubt they would get many fish, and I do like the company so if they catch fish there likely to want to come out again.

[ffejsmada]

Well I don't know whos fish it would be but I know one thing. And that is that if anyone grabbed my rod when I had a hit I'd tell them to f**k off!!!!!
The rod can stay there with fish attached until I'm ready to deal with it.
So I guess in that case it would be my fish

Cheers.

[Tassie JR]

I think if your mate goes in halves with the bait and petrol, what fish you get should be split equally between you and him, dont matter who winds it in its all about teamwork. your mate might be winding him in on your rod but you might still have to help him gaff/net him. which therefore its both yours and his fish. yous can have a fillet each.

cheers tassie JR

[fish-n-dive]

LOL...........your scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to come up with new posts............LOL............but in the interests of the exercise, if he/she pulls it in then in my book it's theirs!!!............

[fish-n-dive]

PS......I'd never fish with a 'you snooze, you loose sunshine' person !!

[Tailortaker]

When my mate and I are fishin for squire we use two rods each, If he has a hook up on one rod than his other goes off I'll reel it in for him but i claim it as HIS fish and vice versa....
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Uggs

[tunaticer]

If I take any mate out for a day fishing in my boat I only take a portion of the fish after the guest has got a feed at least for his family. I do not need to squabble over any fish caught ever, even if I caught them all and my friend caught nothing. The guest gets the first meals and I take a meal after he has taken his. If we have had a bountiful day and several feeds involved I will split right down the middle with him / her.

Enjoying the fishing is what it is all about, not who caught what crap. If that sentiment comes aboard my boat it is never an enjoyable day.

Jack.

[Why-ting]

Well I don't know whos fish it would be but I know one thing. And that is that if anyone grabbed my rod when I had a hit I'd tell them to f**k off!!!!!
The rod can stay there with fish attached until I'm ready to deal with it.
So I guess in that case it would be my fish

Cheers.

Funny stuff Jeff, I agree totally

[Cammy]

when me and my mate go fishing, i would bring three rods and he would bring one, but i would give him a rod to use. and i dont care if he catches a fish on it and calls it his because he rigs the rod up himself lol, im too lazy.

cam

[Jeremy87]

I had to choose the both option. While ultimately the person who winds in the fish is the person who catches it, in many ways it is the skipper who catches the fish and the crew are merely muscle. but in the situation you just stated i agree with ffejsmada, if someone took my rod without me asking them to or if i wasn't already playing a fish i'd tell them where to go if i was skipper. I like taking blokes out for a fish and i always run on the basis of 50% fuel share and you can use my gear if your willing to replace what you loose/brake, so i normally make it my mission as skipper to make sure my crew catch something and take home a feed when appropriate.

[Volvo]

Sometimes there's more of knack to landing the fish than the way the tackle was masde up..
Your mates offcourse and sharing in the thrill as well as the fish as far as i'm concerned is only way ta go...
My opnion mindya...

[VoodooChile78]

The question is...why aren't you catching the fish?? If it was "your" rod...what were you doing while he took it?

The fish is not caught until you touch the leader...so if he winds it in, in my book it's his catch...though if it was your boat and he was a guest he probably should hand it over as thanks for taking him along.

[finga]

Doesn't really matter to me.
I only ever fish one rod.
I get too confused with more then one

[Cobia Kid]

Mate Alex (sik008) HAayden and I, were fishing at a jetty one day. As the bite rate was low, Hayden decided to go for a swim, he hands the rod to Alex and says *watch this for me* just as Hayden was about to get in, his rod having 12 pound line on it, his reel starts screaming. Alex has already started to play the fish from the snags etc, and Hayden raced back to grab the rod. hayden restled Alex for about 15 secs to get the rod off him, Alex was the bigger person and stepped back and said *fine, just land the fish* and by some miracle he landed the fish and it was a 38 cm trevally. Has this happened to anyone else and how did you deal with it?
Cheers
Jamie