Well alright then. I was trying to link the image so it wouldn't take up server space but since you have given me your blessing... here she is:

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http://home.earthlink.net/~beachikeen/_uimages/CatalinaCalico.jpg

I don't think I will ever out do this one and before you ask... let me fill you in on the details:

This fish was taken on a WSB charter roughly 10 years ago. It was at the end of the day and the squid were basically all dead by this time. This fish ate a fresh dead out of the chumline and fought much harder and differently than any Calico I've ever caught so we were all thinking... WSB. Towards the end of the battle the fish circled under the boat and then bobbed to the surface like a cork just behind the swimstep with it's gills and peck fins flaired looking really pissed. We were all in shock just at the sight of such a large Calico and it sickens me to say this but the deckhand was standing by and ready thinking I had a WSB and stuck it before we could even say boo! We were all very dismayed by this but it was too late. Truly, at the time it never even entered my mind to say anything to the decky because as far as I was concerned it went without saying that you would never gaff and old hen like this. I have had to live with that and have learned that you can't take it for granted that everyone has the same views on Calicos and catch and release in general. This was a hired hand on a charter so I guess "she" thought she was just doing her job. The boat was the "Wicked Wahine" skippered by Allyn Watson and the deckhand was his girlfriend at the time. I won't make this same mistake again.

Dave(Outrage19)