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The New Direction Of Team Kattitude

We at Team Kattitude will be focusing less on tournament fishing for the foreseeable future. 

There is a reason to this new direction. We are seeing too many new comers to the sport that are very ill equipped to hunt, target and preserve trophy fish of any species.  They also have an ill fated attitude to providing harvest information to the VDGIF. 

Our Rivers of Virginia are on a decline in respects to trophy fish of all species. The information on their habits, migration, and effects of low water levels, and the  movement of the salinity line upriver in the summer months are over 25 years old. Just like the study being done on the Atlantic Sturgeon in the James River has changed the outlook on that species, we are hoping that tracking and studying other species will help change the outlook for them as well.  

Our New Direction: We will be fishing more for the science of the fish and not so much for the trophies. We will be targeting breeding size fish of many species.

There will be logs of catches kept. Reports will be forwarded to the fisheries biologist for the VDGIF. I am trying to find a tagging procedure for this also, with very high hopes that anglers will report any tagged fish they catch. This process will aid in tracking the movements to and from spawning grounds and migration trends, as well as the effects of the river levels have on fish movements.   

Too many trophies are being killed because some want to just "SHOW OFF" a lucky catch. The breeding population is dropping like a stone. The other thought process is that "If I tell the VDGIF where I caught my fish, They will go out shocking MY fish". Truth be told, if the fisheries biologist had better input from the men and women out there all the time fishing and targeting specific species, they would not have to "shock" fish as often to obtain the data they need. This is where Team Kattitude will come in.