Quote Originally Posted by Slow Retrieve View Post
It's just too bad these fish weren't easily fished with rod and reel. With their size they would attract a lot of people targeting them as a game fish.
Then just pass a regulation that catch and release was illegal unless released dead or morally wounded.
You can snag them easily. They fight hard.

I can't even snag paddlefish in some of the Mississippi river tributaries I use to because their is so many of these things in the way your constantly hitting them.