Thread: Full sps reef, how to catch a powder blue?
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Old 01-18-2012, 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Douglas View Post
I spent weeks trying to catch a "hippo tang". I tried the trap, tried the net, tried to catch him by hand, sleeping at night. All to no sucess. A #16 barbless, on 4lb line with an ultralite spinning rod. He was out of the display and in the sump, in less than 10 seconds, no worse for ware. It works.
I find myself saying... "SERIOUSLY?!?"...

But then I remember... it is a fish.

I am not much for fishing... at all... but does this not cause tears or something in the fish's mouth?
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