Most people rank dolphins right up there with puppies and baby chimps in terms of lovable animals.⁠ ⁠ But if you spend a lot of time fishing in saltwater, you’ll learn that their impressive IQ can make them a nuisance to anglers. Dolphins will surround the school of bait you’re on and drive away the tuna or stripers you were catching. They can be so adept at taking hooked fish off your line that you’ll never get a catch to the boat. Of course, sometimes people get so frustrated over losing fish they take things too far, which was recently the case in Florida. Though we’ve heard stories about charter captains going medieval on protected sharks and getting in trouble for it, we’ve never heard something as egregious as the violation that led Captain Zackery Barfield to jail time and a fine north of $50,000. Barfield claims to have gotten frustrated by dolphins taking red snapper off his clients’ lines during the short recreational season in the Gulf of Mexico. As a countermeasure, he bega...