Fishing vrs Cruelty

[Bewlay Bros]

Is fishing for pleasure as opposed to for food cruel?

I am sure the little fish doesn't much enjoy having a hook spear through its lips, dragged through the water at a rate of knots and being kept in a net for a few hours.

However, it is hard to become too sentimentally attached to a cold blooded scaley creature.

Any opinions?

[B00]

Until someone can covince me that fish can't feel pain then yes I'll always think it's a cruel, not to mention, pointless sport.

[logic]

I think it's very cruel

[logic]

Hey Boo we both had the same idea at the same tme.

[Reverandfunk]

I thinks its just a bit sad to get up at 5am, leave a warm woman and bed, to go and sit on a riverbank with a load of other blokes with mullets and nicotine stained fingers...

[4getmenot]

as a sport where they throw them back in yer its cruel, if they eat them after its fine. That is after all what man used to do to stay alive

[eyeshade]

Worse still is when your man leaves you early in the morning, comes back and dumps his maggots in the fridge! S*d the fish!

[Ice-Maiden]

Unless the fish are to be eaten, it's a vile "sport".

[cazzz1975]

I dont get the sport part of it, you sit on a muddy river bank all day waiting for a tiny fish to get caught, where is the skill??

not to mention how cruel it is to the fish