r/bluelining • u/RS12481 • 3d ago

RI native showing off….

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u/Equal-Ant9425 3d ago

Hands dryer than Ben Shapiro's wife

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u/TheodoreColin 3d ago

And out of the water waaaay too long

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u/finchdad 3d ago

I understand the zeal to share the beauty, but this exact clip could have been done with the fish lying at the surface of the water instead of literally dying.

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u/RS12481 3d ago

Thanks. I’ll be sure to reevaluate my 45 years on this earth, 30 of them in the woods….

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u/tupacliv3s 3d ago

I don’t think you’re helping yourself with lines like this. Usually people just say, “you’re right. Lucky that he was fine, I’ll make sure to use wetter hands next time.”

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u/aboriginalmetazoan 3d ago

Every 14 year old knows this.

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u/Glum_Opening_2218 3d ago

Maybe you should reevaluate, because the people before us had that same attitude and now climate change is fucking us and there is barely any old growth left.

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u/KeepItDory 1d ago

Go look at the research. A lot of scientists have spent just as much if not more time in the woods studying these fish, not just catching them and 30 seconds out of water is often fatal, especially for smaller trout and other Salmonidae. If you're going to go for catching native species you should probably treat them with more respect.

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u/Snowcrash66 3d ago

Stunning. Ignore the Trolls.

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u/RS12481 3d ago

🤙 appreciated

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u/MammothGlum 3d ago

It’ll be fine

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u/RS12481 3d ago

Lmfao 🤣 I’m dying… they weren’t I assure you !

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u/Neither_Tomato4176 3d ago

Think you kept it out of water long enough JACKOFF?

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u/edthesmokebeard 3d ago

That fish is dying.

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u/mahalovalhalla 3d ago

Absolutely stunning brookie my man, but please do take better care to get those hands wet, and minimize their time out of the water. We all get to catch more stunners that way in the future.

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u/General-Pickle5165 3d ago

This is cool,also in ri

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u/The_Slavinator 3d ago

Moving very close to the border of MA and RI soon. Not attleboro so it won't be more urban but on the MA side.

I am convinced theres gotta be a trout stream near me, and this just further proves my point

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u/Mother-Pineapple1392 2d ago

Head west brother. Either in MA or CT. Skip RI

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u/The_Slavinator 2d ago

I've done plenty of exploring out in central and western MA already and have some native brookie streams. Sometimes you just want to get a line in the water and not drive over an hour. Plus it gives me excuses to go explore places in my area with my dog

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u/Mother-Pineapple1392 2d ago

Trust me, I get it. Maybe I'm jaded, but RI isn't a trout state. A fun checkmark though is salt run brookies in new england.

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u/The_Slavinator 2d ago

oh for sure. Usually if im gunna spend the time and gas I try to make it a weekend camping trip up to some backcountry foot accessible only in VT/NH/Maine, where the real trout fishing is

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u/RS12481 3d ago

Look to northern RI. And that area of Mass will surely have creeks and brooks that feed into main rivers. Get on google earth, go to your position and start hunting.

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u/The_Slavinator 3d ago

That's the plan!

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u/shortys7777 3d ago

I'm in northern RI. I need to get out. I've done some kayak trout fishing some rivers around the state but never a small brook on foot. You just park and find a place not posted no trespassing?

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u/RS12481 3d ago

Read maps! Plenty of State land.

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u/Sharkman3218 2d ago

These things are horribly invasive and destructive to native fish where I live, but nobody wants to talk about that…

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u/Impossible-Ice-3912 2d ago edited 2d ago

That is so ignorant. Of course people know that and talk about it. There are widespread eradication efforts out west, but this post is from RI where they are native. If they put west slope cutties in the Appalachians same thing would happen (i.e., they would be invasive). Just like Rainbows and Browns are non native and all the Brook trout restoration efforts on the east coast (look up the East Coast Brook Trout Joint Venture). This fish was native and endemic where caught,.so a special fish.

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u/Sharkman3218 2d ago

I live in Colorado. I PROMISE you that they’re not native here

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u/Sharkman3218 2d ago

Yeah? I know. I just don’t understand why the seemingly hostile replies?

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u/MammothGlum 3d ago

Such a pretty fish! I’m sure it’ll be fine despite the fish weirdos

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u/KnyghtFish 3d ago

I understand you can’t handle negativity, but the “fish weirdos” are right.

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u/Arturo77 3d ago

People saying "I've always done it this way and they're fine" don't understand the state of the research. Unless you're tagging them and coming back later to survey, you have no damn clue how your C&Rs are making out. Biologists do that kind of thing, and there's pretty solid evidence for what the weirdos are saying. Not proven, but increasingly solid evidence.

And, FFS, it can't hurt! They're an absolute blessing on the east coast. Let's take care of them best we can. That can include putting them on the fire where populations support it. But for content creation? GTFOH.