Man, defeats the object, sort of!

A friend emailed me a story that he found on Siasat.com that talks about a guy who released fish into the wild many years ago and then actually caught one of them whilst out fishing.

Here is an excerpt of the article:

Green River, March 17: Some people catch fish and release them. Bill Wengert releases them and then catches them a quarter-century later.

In April 1983, Wengert and other state Game and Fish Department biologists stocked some 12,000 young trout in the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in southwest Wyoming.

Game and Fish spokeswoman Lucy Wold said Wengert was ice fishing recently on the 91-mile (146-kilometer)-long reservoir and caught a 23-inch (58-centimeter) Mackinaw trout, a type of lake trout.

Wengert noticed the trout's right pelvic fin had been clipped, indicating it was a hatchery fish that had been stocked. Examining historical stocking data, Wengert determined the fish was stocked on April 14, 1983.

The article in it's entirety can be read here.

It is an amazing story but it just shows us how fish may be a little like humans and not stray too far from where they grow up!