On Mar 14, 10:27 am, "JT" wrote:
"Halfordian Golfer" wrote in message

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JT,

I answered your question directly. Several times. I hate to say this
JT, but this *specific* question is usually one of the 1st or 2nd
questions that come up every time in this debate. I don't know how
else to answer you. All fishermen try really hard to minimize
incidental loss while hunting or fishing. It happens. A friend of mine
was hunting Elk alone and he shot a cow elk and wounded it. He was
tracking it, saw it and shot it. It was then that he realized he had
killed a second elk. This is a tough guy who was distraught about it.
Once as kid I shot a sparrow hawk while dove hunting. Anyone with a
shred of outdoors ethics is upset by this, but it happens and is
unavoidable.

And if I were starving, had a snowmobile and a club. Yes.

Halfordian Golfer

You still haven't answered my direct question because you know I'm right...
Very well...

BTW, I'm a hunter too... My family has hunted a certain area for years, we
noticed the herds were diminishing. Guess what we did? We quit hunting the
area for a few years to let the population recover. We didn't continue
taking animals in an area just because the law said we could.

Get a clue...

EOT,
JT
Catch & Release fishing is a conservation effort to protect stream
viability for future generations, while enjoying the sport of fishing.

Your question is the most elementary one that is dismissed within 10
minutes of the conversation. Not sure why you hang on to it and not
sure why you keep saying I don't answer your question when I have over
and over and over.

Answer: It is important and needs to be minimized and the fish handled
with care and respect but it can't be helped anymore than we can
prevent killing prairie dogs when we plow the fields to grow lettuce.

THAT is my direct and complete answer. At my count something like the
7th time.

Pure C&R Stresses, maims and kills fish, purely for sport. That much
is completely, incontravertably, inarguably, wholly true. Most people
at least acknowledge that bit, it is the fact that so many FF-ers
simply don't get that and turn a rosed colored pastoral lens towards
the issue, ostensibly because it filters out the blood. At least I
accept this truth instead of pretending it does not exist.

TBone