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excellent point pete - it amazes me how few experienced anglers take the extra 2 seconds to do the above
i must admit i smiled a bit at the phrase "moral responsibility" above, but i do
agree with the general points.
jw wrote:i recently saw michael mcveigh unhook a gut hooked doggie very quickly
and with minimal harm. he used a twiddle stick, is that what is called?
its about a foot long, tapering to a point like a cone and by twisting the snood
round and round, eventually it tightens down on the hook and rotates it out
smoothly. Not sure if my description makes sense, but a highly effective
and not well known technique
jw wrote:i think pete and myself are well able to have a sensibily discussion about this.
say i was out competition boat fishing, id be winding up tiddlers all day, if
i could catch them, as quickly as possible. they would be blown as a
result of the sudden pressure change and gobbled down by the waiting gulls.
so what i would say, thats just the way nature works, im not affecting
fish stocks in the atlantic ocean. I agree, put the flounder back if you
feel better, but its hardly moral responsibility?
jw wrote:i think pete and myself are well able to have a sensibily discussion about this.
say i was out competition boat fishing, id be winding up tiddlers all day, if
i could catch them, as quickly as possible. they would be blown as a
result of the sudden pressure change and gobbled down by the waiting gulls.
so what i would say, thats just the way nature works, im not affecting
fish stocks in the atlantic ocean. I agree, put the flounder back if you
feel better, but its hardly moral responsibility?
however, that has no place in this debate which is about people taking a better option to increase survival in the fish they catch and release. I know loads of people who hated catching flats because of the difficulty unhooking them that are pure amazed when shown, how easy it is to do properly. Just throwing it out there for all to see is all.jw wrote:by providing an alternative *economic* reason
for the existence of fish, is their best hope
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