Many fishermen (and "fisherladies" too) fish for the sport and return their fish to the water. Fish that are to be put back need to be handled carefully and returned gently to the water if they're to survive. The slime has antiseptic properties and is the fish's barrier to the nasties of the outside world and care should be taken to disturb this as little as possible.

I used to fish quite a lot, mostly deep sea, but not so much these days. I did fish mainly for a feed and rarely returned an edible legal fish to the water.

Like you, my father was a regular fishing companion and that enabled us to spend some quality time together in the latter part of his life.

hi milo
i only ever catch fish that i have to throw back because there to small, but i dont mind its relaxing just to dangle a line.
i dont think they get damaged a great deal if they did the greenies would see to it we didnt fish a all.
if hubby and i go fishing together i rarley drop a line, to busy untangling lines and keeping an eye on him (he's visually impaired).
i have made up lines with hooks and sinkers which i just attache to the line when he looses his hooks and sinkers.
my son dosnt eat fish but loves to fish, he brings home enough for 1 meal for ken and i and lets the rest go free.
we alwaysbuy bait never use little ones we catch.
lyn

When handling the fish use a wet towel, remove the barb from the hook. Both these make it easy to unhook a fish. Haave a go milo.
cheers
blaze

Father Ted wrote:
Don't ever kiss the fish that you release if you ever do catch one,they don't like french Kisses...............

 

How do you know????     

Travel Bug wrote:

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Father Ted wrote:
Don't ever kiss the fish that you release if you ever do catch one,they don't like french Kisses...............

 

How do you know????     

Well where do I start?On having second thoughts I had better not.

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Stressed? 
A family of bream swimming around happily on a family outing when they spy a little wriggling worm just waiting to be added to their picnic fare. Poppa fish says, 'Hey momma, why not grab a bite to eat here before we go on?', so she swims up & takes a nibble. Suddenly! the little kiddie fish see their mum's lip pierced through by a gigantic piece of metal which drags her bodily towards the evil void above. As she fights to dislodge the wicked hook, screaming all the way, daddy fish & the little ones are frantic with worry but can do nothing to help. A minute later, there is a splat noise from above, they look up as one & find their mum slowly sinking down towards them, blood trickling from her mouth. Dad nudges her a few times & finally she comes around to the relief of her worried partner & frantic children. They start to swim away from the area but the youngest son lagging behind sees a another yummy little worm. Next thing mum spies is her little baby helplessly being dragged upwards by another shiny chunk of metal.

Luckily(or is it unluckily) fish are known to have short memories.

 

-- Edited by Hylda&Jon on Monday 9th of May 2011 12:34:44 PM

thanks every one , much appreciated...

Must admit, I seem to throw more fish back than I keep, depends how hungry I get & whats in the freezer. I don't like killing, but if I were to take a fish, I make sure it doesnt suffer, or as little as possible. Some places in the world cook the fish while its still alive.....Disgusting practice, disgusting people.

yeh i fish a lot or at least did and hope to do so again, i practise C&R, not it's not some sort or weird sexual ritual or anything like that, catch and release, for me the best part is catching something sing the lightest line possible, give the fish a fighting chance, if you handle it well and get it back in the water it'll live to fight another day, sometimes i don't catch anything at all, if we catch something every time we went fishing it would be called catching not fishing,, oh yeh and there's no such thing asa stupid question, with out questions we don't learn anything

Sorry guys, I hate swallowing fish-oil tabs to get the essential omegas so I practice "Catch & Fillet"! 

 

Only 'size' fish of course and when I have enough for a couple days I stop fishing. 

 

That makes an excuse to get the tinny out & go fishing again in a coupla days.

milo wrote:

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this must be my twittiest post ever.. end rant.

 

 

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 I think the responses indicate that it was not a twitty or stupid post.

It is a pity that one unfortunate experience put you off one life's pleasures.... eating good quality fish.