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1. We've been over this before.

Well, I have. You have ignored it or (as appears much more likely) utterly
failed to understand it before.

Slot limits, not catch and release.

That bears a remarkable resemblance to a sentence in English. This is a
welcome (if rather astonishing) improvement. Is it too much to hope that
you might someday find a useful context for it? Probably so......but hope
springs eternal.

This is selective harvest,

To be sure, killing every fish you catch IS a form of selection. However, I
suspect it is not quite what most people have in mind when they use the
term.

which has a sound biological reason and
helps eliminates random class mortality.

Hm......yeah, if the goal is to exterminate trout from the face of the
Earth, then it naturally follows that killing each and every one that you
encounter is a biologically sound strategy.

And yes, killing them all is undoubtedly the very best way to eliminate any
randomness in class mortality.

Moreover, I'm not a saint

This revelation comes as a substantial shock. You've had all of us fooled
for a very long time.

and
more often then not lately I can not kill a beautiful fish

There are no beautiful fish. They are all scarred and ugly.

and I release it,

Eh? What's this?

this is my constent torment

As you would be ours. How galling it must be then to be to confront the
reality that you are forever doomed to be no more than a bobble-head toy.

amd why I often sign my posts
'guilt replaced the creel'. This bothers me.

What SHOULD bother you is the incapacity to parse that idiotic phrase and
that no one has yet seen fit to do it for you.

2. No, not really. Wild is a term to describe the relative wildness of
an animal which is, specifically, a term relative to the 'absence of
the hand of man'.

Where DO you find this crap? Is it your position that some sort of useful
meaning naturally accrues to any random agglomeration of words? Or do you
merely hope to convince us that this is so?

It does not mean 'indiginous' and it does not mean
'born and reared in the river'.

No, and it doesn't mean "pink bunny pajamas" either. So?

Catching and releasing a fish, is in
specific contradiction of the term

Horse****, pure and simple.

and a caught and released fish, by
definition, is less wild than it had been before being caught.

Well, if you define terms in whatever pudding-headed way seems (however
unjustifiably) to support whatever muddy concept you're trying to deal with,
then yeah, you can make whatever you desire be whatever it is you want it to
be. Consider though........how useful have you found this exercise in
abstention from the linguistic tradition (and culture) that surrounds you to
be thus far?

This is
manifested as empirical evidence in the behavior changes the fish
exhibits.

Evidence is not empirical. Observation can be.....or at least so it is
supposed by many. In fact, this is a difficult position to defend. In any
case, I'm sure I wouldn't be the only person here fascinated by a glimpse of
what you perceive as evidence......particularly in light of your performance
here over the past few years.

3. Well gosh is right. Someone ripped the lips off this fish.

Well, if you caught this fish, you must have done so in an area in which you
fish.....nicht war? And I know for a fact that I don't fish in the areas
that you do. So, it naturally follows that it wasn't me. On the other
hand, it is a dead certainty that it was someone who DOES fish in that area.
Moreover, it MUST have been someone who caught that particular fish and
subsequently released it. O.k., let's see now......how many people engaged
in this exchange have explicitly confessed to catching and releasing fish in
the area in which we know.....by your own explicit confession.....that YOU
catch and release fish? And how many people do we know who have
indisputably caught that fish?

Pretty barbaric.

Ainna?

Wait until *that* picture is on a 36 foot billboard

Well, I plan to be around for a bit longer, but you really shouldn't
construe that as waiting for this picture on a billboard.

(no I will keep the rights to the one I have).

It would be an uncharacteristic bit of wisdom for you to hoard everything
that you have.......it is little enough as is.

4. No ,not by a longshot my good internet buddy.

It is an extremely difficult thing to make most people believe that there
are many who learn to like their afflictions.....that they actually derive
some sort of twisted comfort from their travails. You are an inspiration to
us all.

Your pal,

Halfordian Golfer
Guilt replaced the creel.

Dumbass.

Wolfgang