The All Animal Channel ~ Rex Colubra

June 9, 2024

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“Catch-and-release” fishing is torture-and-release with the victim to very possibly die, often after lingering in agony for days, weeks, or months. That’s been the fate of Elvis, as explained by Rex Colubra (The All Animal Channel (includes video):

“I have been waiting to release this footage, because I know that it looks really bad, and I don’t want people to get upset, but unfortunately the reality of life is that hard things must be faced or we risk becoming delusional and then overwhelmed when hit by the hard truth. This is footage that spans over the last season 2023 from the first time we met up in spring to late October. You can see in the beginning that little Elvis was caught again which left bruising and a large hole in his lower jaw. This seemed to get better at first, but as the summer progressed, and as we went into autumn, the wound just continued to get worse and worse. By the end of the season, the last few times I saw him, it had become a gaping hole that was badly swollen and infected. He stopped eating crayfish, only accepting worms and leaches (soft food) and eventually stopped eating all together on the last couple days I saw him. He lost a lot of weight and was acting like he was weak and lethargic.

I’m doing my best to hold onto hope, because he did somehow manage to survive the encounter with the hook that tore his upper lip almost totally off, but in the back of my mind I know it is a long shot. So my friend may be dead, and for what? So some guy and his kid can have “fun on the boat”? The two minutes of fight this animal gave them was a momentary pleasure for the humans, but was a horrific experience for the fish, then that two minutes of horror dragged out to an agonizing slow death that took 6 months. But hey, it’s about fun, right??? I mean, if the rhetoric about fish being “returned unharmed” is true, then this shouldn’t have ever happened, right? If they’re able to “regenerate their mouth parts” he should be just fine, right? Oh but “they don’t feel any pain around their mouth” or “it’s a slight pressure, like pinching your thumb” so Elvis is probably just faking this whole thing for internet attention, right?

I mean, wtf do you honestly think happens when a hook tears through flesh and is then YANKED on?

“At least he wasn’t eaten” they say. I would rather him been eaten than suffer a horrible and slow death.

This is the face of catch and release fishing..”