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The modern catch and release angler really
seems to have lost his sense about these things.

One man's perspective, I gather?

The trout, in a wet
golf game, becomes just a click, a detente, a 'trophy', if you will.

So you have surveyed most flyfishermen/women?

Yet, there it is, clearly, starkly, in Jeff's picture and Gustav's
painting, the trout knows it is dying, regardless of our intentions.

Now you comune with the trout?

And we pat ourselves on the back when, after hooking and hauling the
trout, we grant it it's life in some moral delusion that this is
somehow 'good'.

Not necessarily for the "good." I release so that there will be trout to
fish for in the future.

A question posed here years back, "if you had to kill every legal fish
you caught would you continue to fish?".
The answer was almost
unanimously no, that really, the modern fisherman doesn't even really
like to eat trout and certainly does not want the burden of having to
prepare, carry out, clean and cook their catch.

Pose the queswtion again--in an NG (i.e., ROFF) with a bit more traffic than
this dried up **** hole. I don't kill, purposely, because I fish for 6 to 8
hours at a time and if I caught legal trout, in many cases, they would be
spoiled by the time I got them home to cook--even though I don't care for
trout all that much.

I find this supremely
ironic and I would love for the sportsmen to have the streams and lakes
back on the premis that, if an angler can not see the Courbet in his
actions, than he should not be allowed astream.

And people in hell want ice water, but guess what?

Your pal,

Hardly!

Op