jeff wrote:
JR wrote:

Hunting does not trivialize the prey. Mandatory C&R reduces them to
playthings.

......
btw, y'all are clearly a much more advanced and thinking being than i
will ever be. i do regard fish as playthings...and they usually win the
game.

jeff (who has observed jr play with the fish)

You know, it's really hard to *be* a highly ethical being if one's
companions continually insist on pointing out one's hypocrisies.

The Metolius is mandatory C&R. I don't think it should be, in part
because I think a slot limit like that on the Deschutes would serve the
same purpose, but mostly for some of the ethical/moral reasons I've
mentioned. Still, I fish it. Too beautiful not to. Hypocritical? I
guess so.

I argue against mandatory C&R waters (with little more success that I've
had here g), but I reckon I'll actually stop fishing the more
beautiful ones that currently exist around the time I stop coveting my
neighbor's wife.....


--
John Russell aka JR