open question to Bob Bradford

[Guest tigger]

Not taking any chances, there are some odd folk on here

 

 

Yeah your not wrong there M8

Tigger.

[chesters1]

time to get those spring loaded hooks out of the box then,deep hookings a thing of the past ,thanks bob

[gozzer]

time to get those spring loaded hooks out of the box then,deep hookings a thing of the past ,thanks bob

 

 

Thought it was that type of thing, Tigger, glad I decided not to join.

[nursejudy]

not sure if i want to be in a gang like that ,i have just been inspecting police cells...dont want to end up back there

[Peter Waller]

Well done fellas, and lady, it's survived another night!!!

[SandTiger]

Hello gang

[nursejudy]

To go totally off topic ..and apologies for it ..just noticed Peter and Sand Tigers signatures...Excellent

 

judy

 

PS

just noticed this thread has 117 replies BUT 1,865 people have viewed!!!!!

Edited February 18, 2006 by nursejudy

[Tony U]

Garry Glitter said: "Do you want to be in my Gang"

I am going to go away and think about That

Edited February 18, 2006 by Tony U

[chesters1]

he also said "i'm the leader" now its the guards

[slodger]

Firstly let me say that I'm not aiming any criticism at anyone. To be honest, I've missed the exchanges between Bob and FT and I'm not really interested in them anyway.

 

What does concern me though is this notion that it can be right in some instances to affect a 'mercy killing' of a fish. I just don't see how. If a fish is too deeply hooked to allow the angler to remove the hook, then in my opinion there are two sensible options open to him/her. Either dispatch the fish and take it away for your's or a friend's consumption, or simply put it back into the water, regardless of it's physical state.

 

If the fish is beyond being able to recover, then it will simply become part of the underwater food chain. Not nice perhaps, but a fact of life.

 

To kill it on the grounds that you are offering it some form of humane euthanasia, flies completely in the face of what we uphold as our core belief as anglers, i.e that a fish does not have the capacity to suffer pain or trauma in the same way as a warm blooded animal. Why else would you think it 'kinder to kill a fish', than release it, if not because you think it will suffer when released?

 

Personally, unless the fish was deemed edible, I would always return it to the water.