I've eaten pike in Russia, and carp and tench in Lithuania. But only because that's what there was to eat.
The dishes were bland and amorphous - the fish seem watery and tasteless - and as an angler I feel no more tempted to eat the fish I catch than ornithologists do to eat the birds they watch.
I think think whoever told Mike that fish were killed in matches here until twenty years ago could get a job - there are usually a few vacancies - in the Trump administration. Abroad, or abroad in some matches, it may have been a different matter. I've lost my copy, but if you look at the cover of Kevin Ashurst's "World Class Match Fishing", there's a picture of Kevin, in a foreign location - forget where - fishing an urban reservoir, and next to him, on the bank, not in the water, is a big plastic bag, held up by a kind of waste-bin stand, containing what he's caught so far. It's a shock to see it, and was even back then, and I always thought it was a misguided choice of cover pic on the part of the publishers.