Killing fish

[Andrew]

I love fishing, but very seldom eat fish. Used to have a dolly knocker ( PRIEST )on the boat, but i would only take a good size cod for the table, over 6lbs was OK.

[Worms]

forbidden fruit an' all that?

 

Moi?

[Phone]

All,

 

I understand the convience of a priest (more for hooligans than fish).

 

Just wondering, I got in real - I mean REAL trouble for inappropriate kit I carried visiting a famous commercial. Can you even carry a priest in your kit on a commercial venue?

 

Phone

[Worms]

All,

 

I understand the convience of a priest (more for hooligans than fish).

 

Just wondering, I got in real - I mean REAL trouble for inappropriate kit I carried visiting a famous commercial. Can you even carry a priest in your kit on a commercial venue?

 

Phone

Of course you can Phone......it's just that getting caught using it can upset some 'less worldly' types

[Emma two]

Of course you can Phone......it's just that getting caught using it can upset some 'less worldly' types

 

 

Yes, it would probably come under the 'reasonable cause' to have it with you, its just part of ones fishing kit. And is less likely to get one into trouble with the rozzers than, as ben suggested a knife big enough to murder a decent sized fish. My pal uses a tomahawk(small axe) that he was given to kill muskies when we were in Cananda.

[Anderoo]

Is it possible to murder a fish?

[Worms]

Is it possible to murder a fish?

If it's a named carp I'm sure many would believe so

[Emma two]

Is it possible to murder a fish?

 

seems so, in Oregon US anyway...

 

http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/14/the-s...to-fish-murder/

[Muddy Salamander]

I do not and have not used a priest.

 

I think that the fish is better off if you give it the chance to live.

A 20% chance of survival if put back is much better than a 0% chance of survival after you've bashed it head in.

If it dies after release, oh well a meal for the pike of insects or whatever.

 

That said i do belive that a preist is a very humane way to 'dispatch' a fish and anglers who eat their catch like rainbow trout for instance should certainly use this method.

 

The other way to dispatch fish is to snap their neck but I think this would take practice and belive that a priest is more humane.

 

There have been occaisions, 99% of the time with very small perch that I have worried about the survival of the fish due to very deep hook sets. but C'est La Vie, if I got too worried I wouldn't fish

[John S]

I do not and have not used a priest.

 

I think that the fish is better off if you give it the chance to live.

A 20% chance of survival if put back is much better than a 0% chance of survival after you've bashed it head in.

If it dies after release, oh well a meal for the pike of insects or whatever.

 

I agree 100% with you there Muddy. Even if a fish is injured by being caught/unhooked it should be given the chance to survive, which it will not have if it gets hit over the head. Even if it's bleeding from the gills it could survive. They don't have the same blood clotting stuff that we have, but their blood still coagulates nicely.

 

Better to have some hope of survival, than none at all.