mullet slaughter

[dillydangler]

been hearing a few reports of mullet being unnecesarily targeted on my local pier using mackerel feathers to foul hook them

 

see http://www.worldseafishing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17417

 

this is from the same pier that so called anglers were cartwheeling dogfish back into the sea because they are a pest w*****s.

 

whats are sport comeing too.?????

[maidstonemike]

Definitely not sporting, but a hook in the mouth/throat/belly/fin. Any difference?

Are you saying it's cruel or not fair sport?

Just a thought, might be interesting to see what people think on this one.

[dillydangler]

Definitely not sporting, but a hook in the mouth/throat/belly/fin. Any difference?

Are you saying it's cruel or not fair sport?

Just a thought, might be interesting to see what people think on this one.

 

 

not sporting in my opinion and completly unecassery.the mentality of some of the people that fish this pier is sometimes unbelievable.(hope this does not put you of your holiday mike,theres plenty of good fishing close anyway)

 

"oh look a huge shoal of mullet lets foul hook them"

 

apparently people are going there just to catch mullet.

[five bellies]

Definitely not sporting, but a hook in the mouth/throat/belly/fin. Any difference?

Are you saying it's cruel or not fair sport?

Just a thought, might be interesting to see what people think on this one.

 

 

Having a fly fishing background the art in it for me the the presentation of the right bait or lure in the right place at the right time,useing sporting tackle. that what makes me an angler not a fisherman I know you are playing devils advacate mike, but useing your rational would harponing be accepterble?

[dillydangler]

this is on the same par as pranging for flounder imo

[AlderneyBassman]

Definitely not sporting, but a hook in the mouth/throat/belly/fin. Any difference?

Are you saying it's cruel or not fair sport?

Just a thought, might be interesting to see what people think on this one.

 

Obviously not a mullet angler then Mike?

 

One of our finest sporting fish and should be angled for, not ripped for

[Dan]

I guess if they are being caught to take home for tea then its no different to gill netting/trawling. I remember seeing a spanish beach fisherman (in spain) wrap a bagette in trebbles and cast it out into the sea, there was instantly a shoal around the bread and after a couple of tugs in comes a foul hooked mullet. No not sport but it was tea!

 

I dare say there are some that would rather all mullet were put back but its unlikely to happen when they are such good eating.

 

Dan

[sam-cox]

I dare say there are some that would rather all mullet were put back but its unlikely to happen when they are such good eating.

 

Dan

 

 

Realy? Hve you ever eaten an mullet?

[maidstonemike]

Never tasted Mullet, I thought they were a muddytasting bony fish. Am I wrong?

Used to see large shoals in the local estuary years ago, and wondered then if we could net them as we considered them uncatchable. Never did thank goodness.

[stavey]

Hmmm, these mullet rippers and people who dont think there is nothing wrong with such activitys i would classify as numb nuts, these people do not have a clue about sport angling and their only reason for going fishing is to fill their gut, i would not give them the time of day or pi** on them if they were on fire, goons the lot of them..........