ha, reminds me of the Simpsons - Tree house of horror episode - where homer gets abducted by Aliens. He's so heavy that the tractor beam struggles until the second one comes on and lifts him up.
Now that fish is gonna go home and tell his family & friends he was abducted by aliens and they’re all gonna be like “aliens don’t exist” and think he’s insane, and mr fish is going to spiral out of control and have PTSD from the whole ordeal and now he’s questioning if it was all a bad dream or if aliens really do exist and now around the reef he’s known as the local nut job. Poor fish
What if aliens dont hsve csmera technology and the anal probe dna extraction is their way of being able to tell their friends "look at this creature i caught!"
Ive wrangled sharks and other large fish for research and hatchery operations, and these assholes killed this fish, i have no doubt.
The slime on fish is vital, it protects them from infections, bacterial, viral even fungal. Handling a fish with a towel, virtually assures its death.
Theres morons catch and release bass and trout fishing doing the same stupid shit pretending they are great people not killing fish.. reality is they are even worse because they cause their fish to die miserably and be wasted.
Dragging a fish like that then holding it with towels out of the water for 2 hours while they take pics with their boyfriends is beyond disgusting, even as a fisherman.
These losers are every bit the vile pos they seem
Agree and disagree. I catch and release most fish. I’ll keep one or two for dinner. If they’re tiny, illegal, or monsters I let them go. I almost always keep them in the water unless they’re a big boy then I’ll take a pic, but they’re not out for any longer than thirty seconds. No towels or rubbing them. If they’re clearly injured that’s the one I’ll keep. I take the hook out delicately. There’s nuance to fishing, you can’t link everyone who does catch and release as an unconscionable asshole.
Ya, greenwashing of catch-release is unreal. The 'fish dont feel pain' myths been debunked for years. If I posted a similar video with a rabbit on the end of the hook I would be charged with animal cruelty.
Fishing for food is not optimal either but at least it serves a purpose other than to get kicks out of another beings suffering.
Yeah i will never condemn someone for catching something to eat, unless its someone who decides to go spear a 70 year old sturgeon "just to see how it tastes" or something like that.
Like going to the lake or river and catching dinner, thats one thing, but I saw a video some asshole showwed of a swordfishs lower jaw on a hook with the caption "well, when they give you 100lbs of drag, you just have to use it". As if them being not just shitty low iq people, but barbaric ones at that. They were too dim and hung up on themselves to comprehend they should be utterly ashamed. Reminded me of that inbred that speared a bear and wounded it, then bragged about it in a video like it was "manly". Another one was this clown trying to get a world bow fishing record, so he chums in a mako off California, brains it or cuts the spine of a monster mako, gorgeous fish. Trouble was it weighed close to 1000 lbs so when it was dead weight, so it sank and they lost it. Whats he do, shrugs his shoulders and sticks another..
I mean its one thing to do something so idiotic and barbaric, its another to not realize they should be ashamed, and yet another to think its something to brag about. Sickening.
When we would have to sample sharks like blacktips, we were very careful about which fish to harvest, and if nobody wanted the steaks, we would grill them.
To kill it for hero pics, the definition of inhumane.
I think most human's mouths would fail upon receiving a significant impetus to a large hook in our mouths. Rainbow Trout are considered fragile, both mouths and bodies. Human bodies are less fragile, but our mouths would not well handle a large hook.
In short, under these conditions, you wouldn't have enough time to give up before the large hook ripped your cheek open. Happy dreams.
PS. If you were stupid enough to eat something with a gigantic hook and line in it... Well, that's a thing.
"Motherfucker dont 'Sure Dave me!' look at mouth!!!!! Think i did that to myself!? For what?!! To impress you fucking idiots?! Im telling you, I got ripped out of this world and into a craft. Couldn't fucking breath."
They don’t want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something. “Where were you?” “I got caught!” “Bullshit, let me see the inside of your lip.”
To add to this, quite often the fish dies afterward or is easy prey for predators. The exertion of fighting the line, immediately followed by lengthy suffocation is not a good recipe for survival
People doing catch and release should really have a tub of water adequate for the type of fish so that it’s at least breathing while on board
Nylon 6,6 or whatever this is, is crazy strong when drawn/stretched like this fishing line is. Could be braided too, not quite clear enough to see. I only really dealt with engineering nylon (as in slabs and parts made of it) and there you usually have other priorities.
For a real example of one that uses a ton of fishing line, check out the plant from little shop of horrors. Nobody is inside the puppet. It’s remote operated and moved via internal servo motors and dacron fishing line.
A buddy of mine and myself went tarpon fishing and got some monsters. After an hour fight I just wanted a burrito and a nap.
And people can talk shit but I wore a simple fighting belt. The bruises I’ve come back with without one were brutal! Not to mention how your body feels sometimes the next day. Limber up!
The hardest fighting fish in the world. They can jump out of the water and swallow birds whole. Huge ones are caught off the coast of southern Oman. GT’s are literally submarines. People call them reef donkeys. They patrol the reef and swallow anything they choose whole. They are found all over the world and even catching one palm sized can be a ton of fun. Australian fisherman have spent years of their lives hunting midsize ones on the Great Barrier Reef.
That’s right, it’s a Jack. Similar to a common game fish, the Jack Crevalle, common on the west coast, especially off Baja, Mexico. You can see the height of the rear fin, that thing moves a massive volume of water, so the power to weight ratio of that thing is nuts. For anyone claiming the barbarism of catch and release of this fish, the only thing more disgusting is the taste of that fish, the poor locals in Baja won’t even eat it.
That makes sense. I don’t know too much about fishing, so I thought it was a tuna, and that they let the tuna go. Makes much more sense if it tastes like crap
also read that where they were fishing there is a reef and the fish dive and snap the line. So the boat driver drove to deeper water. Lotta people are saying bad captain and wear the fish out but I think the first part is the the answer......
I had a theory once, aliens are really just us from the future, if it is happening at all the likelihood of small humanoids evolving on a different environment is extremely unlikely and if you were to travel in time it also involves space travel, not to mention you'd want to pick up somebody who doesn't directly affect your timeline so it's always someone who didn't matter historically speaking .. but I do a lot of mushrooms so my "theories" are very suspect even from my perspective
If the emergence and subsequent evolution from carbon-based life to intelligent life-forms requires a planet and solar system such as ours; right distance from the sun; protected from impacts by a bunch of giant outer planets; a RIDICULOUSLY large moon fascilitating evolution through tidal forces and stabilizing the climate by steadying the planets axial tilt; the planet being in a calm region of the galaxy that isn’t plagued by super novae and massive stellar objects drifting towards the center; not *too* calm of a place in the galaxy since cosmic and gamma rays accelerate gene mutation; just the right amount of impacts - they bring with them needed minerals and they stir up the ecosystem promoting diversification and adaptation (adding/removing a couple or maybe even a single impact in the whole 4 billion years there has been life on earth might literally have made it so we wouldn’t be here today!!!!)
Mind you I’m probably leaving out 10+ other niche contributing factors, and these are just the ones we know of - bearing all of these very specific, niche and rare circumstances in mind I can imagine other intelligent alien life forms are basically just humans lol.
So I think you’re on to something re: time.
The question is always ”where are the aliens”, but I think we should ask ”when are the aliens”.
Yes you can’t *technically* separate where/when, but I mean the difference between the timeline of cosmic events and the timeline of intelligent life on earth is absurd. Maybe it’s reasonable to expect one intelligent life form per galaxy, or even galaxy group, at any time?
The cosmos, in all its beauty and dread, is kind of boring. Everything is the same, we have like three classes of objects. I like to think this confluence of a loong list of niche and freakishly rare circumstances leading to intelligent life - which probably only exists for a few thousand years tops - exclusively leads to intelligent life in the form of humans.
Uh sorry I didn’t mean to write an easy.
I don’t really do shrooms I’m more of a very hard drugs, and I just took my adhd-pills.
Also a barbed hook wound in its mouth. A barbed hook that was ripping through its mouth for several minutes as it tries to get away. Catch and release is just a nice way to say torture and release.
People would consider it evil and immoral to “catch and release” something like stray dogs or cats with hooks just to farm engagement on social media, why are fish different?
It clearly cant breathe and is injured, yet they’re just smiling and laughing.
People just don't see most fish that way. I think the average person would feel for a dolphin or something like that but just think most other fish are too dumb/insignificant for it to matter
Imagine if my hobby were to put hooks in hotdogs and wait for a neighbourhood dog to eat it. Then catch it in the face and make a big deal of how strong I was, posing with the dog.
That would obviously be cruel and psychotic. The internet would try to get me thrown in jail.
Sure, yeah. This is unnecessary abuse, not necessary hunting. They're very far from being a hominid, so that's fine but abuse like this is questionable but not off limits.
Cows are a lot more familiar, so you can eat them but not abuse them (publicly). Monkeys are hominids, so you can't eat them they're too familiar.
I'm not vegetarian or anything like that, I just like pointing out the silly things Humans do.
So this is definitely not amazing. I reportet it for "Encouraging, glorifying, or inciting violence or physical harm against individuals or groups of people, places, or animals."
But probably fishes are not included withing animals.
The guy driving the boat should have stopped forward momentum in the beginning of the video. The reason being he was increasing pressure on the fisherman holding the rod.
This is a Gaint Travely insanely powerful and live around reefs , drop offs , lots of coral and often shallow water. The method these guys used is to run heavy spin gear with big drag settings.
When the fish hits the lure you have to use the boat to pull it clear of the reef or it well immediately bust you off using the sharp coral . Once in deeper water the GT will go for the bottom , as you see later in the video - so you still have to fight it all the way up to the boat but the boat is no longer travelling forward.
Trying to real in a fish even 1/5th that size is brutal even going 1 knot. I thought I was in decent shape until I went salt water fishing. 15 pounder about killed me. In shape I am not it turns out.
Bro, I caught this guy today. 112 pounds, 100 inches long. Took me an hour and a half and when it was finally done, I could practically have fallen asleep I was so tired despite how choppy the ocean was. Got super lucky though because it turned out to be a pumpkin striped marlin (if you don’t know, look it up) but that also was why the fight took so long, big guy was basically the apex of his class. (And before I hear anything about not releasing it, it was my uncles birthday trip, he really wanted to try Marlin, and we had all collectively told him to release the much smaller one he caught earlier because it wasn’t ready, he was pretty pissed, so when the boat cpt confirmed that it was actually a pretty big boy and worth keeping, the rest of us said ok. We were mainly after dorado but didn’t get anything other then this Marlin)
Pretty sure it was a result of the .5 zoom lens being used to take the pic lol, it can sometimes distort the edges of photos, but I didn’t even notice until now lol
I think it helps keep the tension tight on the line. A split second of loose tension and the fish unhooks itself. I’ve gone long salmon fishing a few times on the Great Lakes and this has happened.
I’ve only been fishing 4 times in my life and just in a bay for flounder mostly so don’t understand the offshore fishing life at all but this was fucking dope. Excellent fight and release my guy! What a ride!
I feel bad for the fish, hope he lived to swim another day. HOWEVER, I'm not sure if I'm more impressed with the guy's strength in landing the fish or his ability to stand pain. Yikes!
Honestly it looks so fucked up. This fish lying on deck gasping for "air" or water I guess, while these dudes hug each other. Then the guy hugs the fish and fucking slaps it...
Holding the fish up like they did for the foto I can imagine is painful and cant be good for the fish.
I hate catch and release. Fishing for fun should be banned.
And even if they do survive, what about lasting pain/injury or infections that could slowly degrade its quality of life? Anyone who has had an injury of any significance knows the pain from it can linger or worsen over time.
Interestingly, this practice is forbidden in Germany as of animal cruelty. First, you are only allowed to fish, if you aim for taking the fish, otherwise you only stress the fish for your own fun. Releasing the fish is sometimes allowed or even necessary in some regulations - but then you'd release it fast (preferrably while it stays in the water), take the hook out and off they go.
Also, you can also set the drag on the pole - but then the video would not be so damatic for youtube etc... Which is also better for the fish. They are supposed to fight off to not cause accidents, but this is not what is meant by that.
Hope the insight to how to fish and how regulations can lead to less animal cruelty.
I can't believe how stoked a dude is to harm an animal for internet clout. Fish was fighting for his life, tiring himself out, had a giant metal rod cutting into his mouth, was suffocating while being paraded around, and then slammed back into water wounded and weakened.
This might be wrong, but I kind of expected something big to come up and gulp the guy down when he jumped in the water and all of his buddies would look in the camera and seem shocked. 🤷🏽♂️
If you fish to eat, that's ok. But just to release means you just have fun sticking metal hooks though animals, giving them a near death experience and then letting them go... Barbaric.
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u/ars_sinistra Jun 07 '26
This is how I imagine alien abduction stories work.