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Originally Posted by rossman
The theory is that if your fish gets chomped, your last x number of minutes of the fight is with a fish with no tail or dead from a chomp out of the middle, did you really win the fight with that fish or did you have an advantage over someone whose fish was a pound lighter but unmolested by a shark. I don't have strong feelings either way but it is pretty much a standard rule on every boat I have been on.
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I understand now, thats why stating at the gaff would make some difference. Part of fishing I guess, there are fish fishing for themselves also.