can you, or i should say do you eat tarpon?

[keakar]

Originally Posted by latravcha

Spend 1 1/2 hours fighting that big SOB and watch the jumps and you will understand why people target them.

I and I think everyone else understands the "battle" and the targeting of them for "sport" but I think I and most others just wonder why in the world are they even taken out of the water and brought to the scales for tournaments? many "sport fish" are catch and release only which is how tarpon should be if indeed they aren't considered worth eating.

shark and bill fish regularly have catch and release tournaments where they measure, tag, and release fish on the spot and weights are measured by the size and not dragged to a scale where the fish dies to just become fertilizer