RGarri7470 wrote:

I was cleaning up some old email files and came across this from last May after
I posted and article about jug and trotline fishing.I got a laugh out of it
back then and forgot it. Sounds like an animal rights nut, or just a nut. What
do you think? Where are trotlines and jugs outlawed? I am betting some
northern state.


"Using trot lines and jugs isn't fishing...it isn't a
sport, it is unsportsmanlike harvesting of
resources. It is just about the same as killing
cattle in a stockyard. Where I come from, such
fishing is illegal, and well it should be. If I
have any opportunity to lobby for outlawing such
tactics in Georgia, count on it that I will do so."


Ronnie, I don't know why they think all fishing must be sport,, heck
most of the fish eaten in the world is not caught by sportsmen but by
commercial fishermen

I enjoy trot lining and jug fishing, I do it not for sport (as I only
release non catfish) I do it when I want to catch a lot of cat fish for
a special feed I'm involved with. I do enjoy the heck out of it, so it's
FUN,, and what separates fun, from "sport", in fishing ?

Of course no adays I guess I could call it a sport because I am peddling
my Hobbie Out BAck Fisherman chasing jugs with fish on them,, I'm
getting a lot of exercise out of it :-)


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Rodney Long,
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