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DonInKansas:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 12 Jan 2008, 22:27 ---Not to mention that unless you're fishing with a net, the catching of a fish involved putting a fucking hole in the side of its face.
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QFT
If you're gonna catch and release, you might as well go to a damn aquarium and stare at the fishtank. Fishing, hunting; do it to solidify your place in the food chain and eat what you kill. I would be pissed if a bear mauled my ass and didn't have the common courtesy to use my bleeding carcass to feed itself or it's young.
jhocking:
Interesting. Me, I wouldn't be pissed, I would be rather happy that I survived a bear mauling.
Verergoca:
My most insane fishing i ever did, i was getting paid for!
I caught around 1500kg of turbot, in 4 consequetive days!
(yes, i was working at a turbotfarm, shut up, beat my epic volumes of caught fish)
ledhendrix:
--- Quote from: SonofZ3 on 12 Jan 2008, 18:26 ---ledhendrix: Nice fish =) Mind me asking what fly you were using?
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Was caught on a bibo, probably one of my favorite flies.
--- Quote from: DonInKansas on 13 Jan 2008, 01:20 ---
--- Quote from: Inlander on 12 Jan 2008, 22:27 ---Not to mention that unless you're fishing with a net, the catching of a fish involved putting a fucking hole in the side of its face.
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QFT
If you're gonna catch and release, you might as well go to a damn aquarium and stare at the fishtank. Fishing, hunting; do it to solidify your place in the food chain and eat what you kill. I would be pissed if a bear mauled my ass and didn't have the common courtesy to use my bleeding carcass to feed itself or it's young.
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Yeah but staring at a fish tank is hardly going out into the countryside. You could argue that locking something up in a fish tank and taking it from its natural place in the wild is just as bad. Most people involved in fly fishing are also quite concerned about the welfare of the fish they catch, even if it is purely because they enjoy catching the fish at least they are taking an active stance in stopping them from becoming endangered. Take salmon over in Scotland, if it wasn't for anglers their stocks would be even more dramatically reduced than they are now. Netting and fish farming are incredibly detrimental to salmon stocks and where this has been stopped because of the actions of anglers fish stocks are increasing. A prime example is the increasing salmon and sea trout stocks on the east coast of Scotland where most farming and netting has been stopped because of angling pressure, whilst on the west coast of Scotland where there are still huge amounts of fish farming and netting wild salmon and sea trout stocks are still on the decline.
Would you rather people just ignored where there food came from and turned a blind eye to what was happening because they don't see the effects first hand or would you rather people went and did something they enjoyed, that gets them outdoors and gets them "in touch" with nature and are actually helping a good cause?
Inlander:
Personally I'd rather humans had the good sense to start eating something else when the food they like gets so rare that it's difficult to catch and/or prohibitively expensive. Humans are the only predators on the planet that, when faced with a situation in which one of their prey animals is becoming increasingly depopulated and difficult to catch, will continue hunting for that animal regardless, rather than switching to another animal and giving the first one a chance to get its numbers up again.
As for catching fish being an excuse to go into the wild, well . . . I accompanied a friend of mine a few weeks ago while she was fishing on the New South Wales coast. She didn't catch anything, and when it started getting dark and we decided to head home she chucked what was left of her bait into the water. All of a sudden the water was alive with a myriad of crabs and tiny baby fish. Saw 'em all. Right out there in the wild. Didn't have to catch a one of them.
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