Peter B

I think whenever we practice catch and return, we need to accept that there will be inevitable fatalities - all we can do is endevour to keep these to a minimum. What struck me about this article is that it just reaffirms what has been said about SWFF for a while; using excessivley light tactics for fish will often leave it too exhausted to recover... I'm sure if these same 88 fish had've been hauled in with a beachcaster and immediately returned the findings would have been completely different. I'm not for one second giving out about anyone who salt water fly fishes (I tried it for the first time myself this year), but I just don't think this article is a fair representation of fishing in general...