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fishinreddog

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Does Anyone know what this flag means?  I have one and thought about flying it on the yak.
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A quick search on the ol' Google and I get this.
Looks to be the proper protocol for flying flags in Hawaii.

http://blog.sportfishingmaui.com/post/7126280975/hawaiifishflags


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The billfish flag is always flown on top no matter what species is caught, and you can run one flag for each billfish you catch.  Typically, we catch blue marlin in Maui, so we fly a rectangular, blue flag with a white marlin design (a striped marlin also uses the same flag as a blue marlin). Simple so far, right? Well, there is also a white flag with a blue marlin design that can be used for both a blue and striped marlin.  We’ve been flying the marlin flag often over the past month.  In fact, we have caught five blue marlin that weighed over 500-pounds each!



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Let’s not forget how important tagging and releasing billfish is either.  In this instance we run a red triangle-shaped flag with a white “T” that flies below the billfish flag.  Let’s say though that you captured one billfish but tagged and released another.  Then two billfish flags are flown, with the red tag flag underneath to designate that the bottom billfish was tagged and released.  If multiple billfish are tagged and released, then a red tag flag is run underneath each billfish flag that was tagged and released.  Whew!

 

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INSAYN

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But, in a nutshell it looks to be the universal flag or "Tag and Release" of sport fish. 

Cool flag nontheless!
 

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I must not have been looking in the right place. over an hour and the closest i got was the number 4 pennant.

essentially the answer is " might be best if you dont use it as a safety flag"?


fishinreddog

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A search on Amazon just calls it a tag flag.  (similar but Not the #4).  Does the one that got away count for catch and release? Thank you all for searching. I spent quite a bit of time looking too.
David   
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Hmmmmm, every flag sends it's own unique message.......
How 'bout this as the official kayak safety flag?  ;D

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   I like it--where can I order one?
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