Is catch and release the most moronic thing ever? You frick up the fish's mouth and let it go, and it essentially starves to death because it can't use its mouth properly. Taking it home and eating it is more merciful.
Is catch and release the most retarded thing ever?
Bass can handle being caught lol.
>oops looks like I gut-hooked another one
>You frick up the fish's mouth and let it go, and it essentially starves to death because it can't use its mouth properly.
I wish that was true, then it would apply to all the blue-hairs with pierced lips.
>take it home
100% fatality rate
>catch and release
0-100% fatality rate depending on how it got hook
OP is kind of right. It's like you go to a random person in the street and beat him up and then just leave. It's just bad manners. If you beat someone up you should take his wallet, or rape that person, or cook and eat that person. You can't just do it for the heck of it, just to take a stupid selfie with him bloodied on the ground. That's fricking horrible. You have to take something from the victim you defeat. What does a fish have? His life. So you take his life.
Yes you can, because its a fricking fish, a fricking lower life form than a human being by millions and millions of fricking years. They dont even have pain receptors. I can do whatever the frick I want to that little guy.
>Yes you can, because its a fricking fish, a fricking lower life form than a human being by millions and millions of fricking years.
Hey let's not get carried away, it depends on the human being
>They dont even have pain receptors.
Then how do they or any lower creature know to avoid destructive stimuli?
>They dont even have pain receptors
>They dont even have pain receptors
why are you lying on PrepHole? they can feel pain and do have nociceptors lol:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/fish-feel-pain-180967764/
Wow, why would someone lie about a fact sensitive to the ethics of their profession?
I wonder why the practice of ikejime isn't more popular. Of course with net fishing it isn't feasible but if you catch individual fish it takes a second.
it just seems pathetic, just own up to it. tell everyone that you're too moronic to have a normal profession and instead just make money by hurting/killing random animals.
you need to be 18 or older to post here, high schooler
mix of this and the fact you cant choose what size and type of fish you actually get.
the smallest trouts thats hardly worth anything in terms of food, instead of trying to lift them out of the water and unhook them its usually enough to give them some slack and they come free by themself. i dont have to gut a fish that goes 4 on a sandwich and maybe the fish will survive and grow big?
i still count it as a catch...
In most cases they aren't permanently harmed.
I caught the same bass twice within a few hours, I could tell because my knot came untied and I lost the hook the first time. When I caught him again later, my first hook was still in there. I took them both out and let it go.
Obviously the fish wasn't laying around in agony because it was back to hunting for food again pretty quickly after being caught the first time.
They also don't have much soft tissue in their mouths and certainly not many nerve endings there. Unless you gut hook, gill hook, or tongue hook one, they are unlikely to feel anything except fear until they are released (and those types of hookings aren't very common with the right equipment).
Imagine not knowing what a circle hook is
imagine not using barbless circle hooks.
now imagine bringing a fish up from 120 ft + with its eyes and tongue exploding out of its face and fricked up swim bladder
That's what descenders are for
Op confirmed for non-white. 3rd worlders dont understand that catching a fish correctly does literally no damage or harm to it except for a lip piercing. Yeah if you suck and dont know what your doing your gonna gut hook it or let it swallow it. But as long as youre not a dumb child you wont be killing fish. maybe 1 in 100 fish will just get a really unlucky bite and you know it has a low chance of surviving. in which case you just eat it.
Also like the other anon said. Multiple times Ive caught a fish and minutes later or even the very next cast Its that same stupid bastard back for more.
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Tarpon also get so fricking exhausted from the fight that they almost instantly get demolished by sharks before/upon release
Catch and release fishing is the sporting equivalent of bulimia. get a more productive hobby
honestly I'd rather scuba dive with a camera if I wanted to see fish without harming them
>Op confirmed for non-white. 3rd worlders dont understand that catching a fish correctly
You can't catch a fish """correctly""" you dumbfrick, you either catch it or you don't, and the chance that it fricks up the mouth is high.
catch and release might be an actual thing in america but in finland where i live it is just some new ting people mainly do for social media clout
here people have this mindset that if i don´t take this fish someone else will and it might just as well be me
fish here have hard time here already even without that empty everything now and all to me -mentality
just to prove my point i haven´t seen a grayling that was over 15cm in 25 years
They do that for social media clout? That's so strange to me. So there's a Finlandian Kim Kardashian of catch n release?
>They do that for social media clout?
People do literally everything for social media clout these days.
C&R is sometimes enforced by regulation in the US. Where I live, one popular tailrace fishery that consistently produces massive trout (over 10lb / 4.5kg) is C&R only so it clearly works when done properly.
Because bonking them on the head with something dense then cutting the gills works just as well.
What's the point of fishing if you don't eat them? Fish is delicious. Imagine if hunters just took paintball guns and marked deer instead of killing and eating them.
well deer would look very colorful
cultivate a skill and enjoy the sport without decimating fisheries in areas with large populations of people who enjoy the sport..
So why don't they make hunting more accessible by letting hunters shoot deer with paintball guns, with far less permitting costs?
>Is catch and release the most moronic thing ever?
yeah its pretty dumb, i had to release a perch i caught that was 0.25inches under limit size and i doubt it lived, laws are laws but what a waste
Catch and release is for citygays who think eating fish that don’t come from a store is icky.
catch and release is basically the only thing you can do in my c**t, unless you catch an invasive species, and in that case you don't want to it them
hunters on the other hand can basically do whatever they want, even get into your property to kill a pheasant. they shot your dog or your house? heh who cares, wise not to report them.
In some cities the waterways are so polluted that eating your catches is pretty fricking stupid.
Bass are largies and spots are disgusting to eat. Black person teir fish. I've pulled rats out of these frickers mouths.
You gonna complain about what fish eat? Trout eat insects, larvea, worms, sometimes even small mice.
Bass also taste amazing.
take it from a 32 year professional.
I deal with a lot of fish everyday and i can wholeheartedly tell you.
Fish Dont Have Feelings.. None what so ever.
Are those deenz?
I don't like catch and release in my area for most species, for instance salmon. As soon as you catch a legal fish, especially in fresh water, you should be mandated to catch it and when you catch your limit you should be forced to stop.
There's a lot of undocumented release mortality especially with fish later in the season. They are predominantly not feeding and it's during hot weather in fresh water, so they may not die today but they could die in two or three weeks or whatever before they spawn simply because they run out of juice.
Im gonna frick your mouth
i have caught and released the same trout multiple times, months apart.. have done this with multiple trout too.. confirmed with pictures
>s catch and release the most moronic thing ever?
No. Because without some fisheries wouldnt not exist any more. Also, when I fish I usually catch way more than I could eat in a reasonable fashion.
yeah i dont get the appeal but that's just me